The Tories Josh Hawley Moment?
Today the small cars, passenger trucks and a much smaller number of transport trucks than advertised started to roll into downtown Ottawa. Yes, the moment is before us, and after…
January 2022
Existential topics
English journalist George Monbiot published a Twitter thread on January 28 that resonates powerfully with me. The contents are reproduced…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Zak Vescera reports that the Moe government’s push toward privatizing COVID testing has turned into such a fiasco that even the for-profit operators…
Big Wheels Keep On Turning
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The Bullying Will Continue Until We’re Satisfied
Which of the following words or phrases do you feel best describe Collingwood Council (you may choose more than one): Petty Vindictive Puritanical Hypocritical Vicious Punitive Jealous Envious Mean-spirited Puerile…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 28, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: New York couple charged after allegedly posting on social media about using fake vaccine cards to enter a Buffalo Bills game #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN – Garry J.…
Cause, effect
That didn’t take long. pic.twitter.com/V3Fg5N9Rrw — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 28, 2022 The post Cause, effect first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
Bombs and Waffles: the NDP and NATO in the twentieth century
L-R: Frank Howard, James Laxer, John Harney, David Lewis and Ed Broadbent, one week before the 1971 New Democratic Party leadership election where David Lewis was elected as the successor…
Fools Parade
The truckers will arrive in Ottawa this evening. Along the way, they’ve picked up quite a lot of money. The CBC reports that there have been a lot of anonymous…
Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference
Olúfémi O. Táíwò I flinched inwardly. It was an innocent and properly motivated offer: Helen, a freelance journalist, was offering to give up something for me, stemming from her concern…
Truckers Rolling Over O’Toole.
Who says that Canadians will not contribute millions of dollars to stupidity? It was a treat the other day to read Althia Raj’s column in the Toronto Star on the…
Very fine people on both sides? Jason Kenney defends convoy participants; says NDP welcomes ‘eco-terrorists’ to protests
Yesterday, the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons warned Members of Parliament that individuals associated with the anti-vaccine-mandate truck convoy nearing the nation’s capital have been trying to suss out…
Tribal America
NYT columnist, Frank Bruni, writes that Covid has brought out the worst in his fellow Americans – tribalism. The pandemic, which could and should have brought us together, has instead…
The Con Convoy from Hell Invades Ontario
The so-called Freedom Convoy has invaded Ontario, with their flags, honking horns, and their "Faith Over Fear" signs. Many of them are religious fanatics who want to bring down the…
Rubicon Crossed
Having not written in almost two months, I hadn’t pictured that I’d end up writing again twice in the same day the first time back. Yet things are moving fast…
From the Land of Living Skies and dead brains
There's dumb, and then there is People's Party of Candidate racist anti-vax dumb.Notorious meathead Mark Friesen, despite having a case of COVID so severe that he had to be airlifted…
Anthony Fauci Looks Back on the Last Two Years and a Nation in Decline
He hasn’t had a day off since Covid-19 took hold in America and he’s exhausted. But the pandemic has not been Anthony Fauci’s real struggle. “There is no truth,” Fauci…
From the Land of Living Skies and dead brains
There’s dumb, and then there is People’s Party of Candidate racist anti-vax dumb. Notorious meathead Mark Friesen, despite having a case of COVID so severe that he had to be…
Tariq Ali: ‘Democracy is largely a set of rituals now’
Tariq Ali speaking at the 2013 Subversive Festival in Zagreb. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Tariq Ali is an internationally known public intellectual, columnist and political activist. Born in pre-partition India…
Playing To the Fringe. Like the Republicans Before Them, Canada’s Tories Cozy Up to Extremists
It’s no secret that the prairie provinces are the Conservative heartland. It’s also no secret that some six million Canadians, ardent fans of Donald Trump and Trumpism, are mainly from…