Today’s News: Weekend updates
Conservative leadership update: Maybe Poilievre has hired a new PR firm not staffed by 12-year-olds. He released a video today that conservatives actually liked. As for me, it worried me…
July 2022
Irving Abella
I am so, so sorry to hear this. He was such a great and kind man, and one who always encouraged me in my work on extremism. Canada is a…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jim Stanford laments the likelihood that we’re headed for a self-inflicted recession in the name of an arbitrary inflation target. – Acey…
New one. I like big skies.
New one. PEC sky. pic.twitter.com/8Mq0JRkA2v — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 3, 2022
Biblical Commandments the Pseudo-Christians Avoid
The Talibangelists (aka the Christofascists) like those on the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) or in the anti-abortion movement like to pretend they base their decisions, their politics, their…
War On Sex?
Mara Gay writes in The New York Times that Republicans have declared war on sex: If we take Justice Clarence Thomas at his word — and there’s no reason not…
But Not in Canada, Eh?
It was a hundred years ago when demagoguery was being preached in Munich. It was six years ago when a demagogue won the republican party nomination in the United States.…
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it
A few days ago, Margaret Atwood put out a tweet (now it has 140,000 “likes”) about how America turned itself into The Handmaid’s Tail world because people couldn’t get over…
Foundation of lies and misinformation supports the Horgan-Clark boondoggle
BC Hydro sought environmental approval for construction of Site C in 2011. In that year, global wind power capacity was 238 gigawatts. While construction of BC’s controversial hydropower project dragged…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Danny Altmann discusses how infection with COVID-19 tends to produce weakness and long-term illness rather than immunity, while Tom Livingstone likewise notes that…
A wildfire of organizing: Sparks from Labor Notes 2022
Chris Smalls addresses attendants at the 2022 Labor Notes Conference. Photo by James Hutt. “The white collar crime syndicate known as Corporate America is hereby put on notice that the…
Covid and Climate Change: Similar Rationalizations, Different Intensity
I was searching through YouTube looking for things to include in my career retrospective, mainly looking for a clip of an old CKCO show, What’s Your Point/The Final Round, from…
Freedom’s Cost
Americans are a strange and contradictory lot, to put it mildly. They claim (not unlike a certain candidate running for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada), to love…
Nepotism?
A week ago, Doug Ford introduced his new cabinet. And, lo and behold, his nephew, Michael has a seat at the table. Marcus Gee writes: Mr. Ford and his nephew,…
Is Trudeau Sliding to Anonymity?
Watching the TV clips of prime minister Justin Trudeau’s recent travels, you have to wonder what good they are doing. His hobnobbing with the elites of the Commonwealth and the…
Canada Day Part Deux
Here, I think, is the last and best word on the Convoy, from Scrimshaw tonight: "The Convoy’s a disgrace. It’s also a walking advertisement for hatred, bigotry, and indifference towards…
Musical interlude
The Knocks feat. Donna Missal – Bang Bang
Happy Canada Day, eh
Weslemkoon fireworks! pic.twitter.com/BWPYt1o8EC — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 2, 2022
A Canadian quiz for our delicate times
Happy 115th birthday, Canada! To quote from the great Russian philosopher, Yakov Smirnoff, what a country! In honour of the birthday of this semi-great dominion (I’m sorry, is the term…