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.…
2022
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…
Canada Day, eh?
CANADA DAY pic.twitter.com/dqGN87Fc1P — Brittlestar (@brittlestar) June 30, 2022 Love this classic "I Am Canadian" rant! ???? #IAMCanadian https://t.co/GoXPPde6wZ — Canuckle (@CanuckleGame) July 1, 2022 Happy Canada Day from Ottawa!Final…
Berman Flails Over Jurisdictions
Sure, most Canadians are appalled at the recent decisions by the Talibangelists on the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS), and the loss of rights and freedoms their overturning Roe v. Wade…
The Summit of the Americas was an embarrassment for Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US President Joe Biden meet at the ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, June 9, 2022. Photo from Twitter. This year’s Summit of…
Happy Canada Day
As factious as we can be, I hope most of us can at least agree on this: H/t Theo Moudakis Recommend this Post
The Day Pierre Poilievre Exposed His Far Right Extremism
As you know, Pierre Poilievre has been running away from the new Con convoy which is now preparing to occupy Ottawa again. I thought he had finally learned that his…
Canada Day 2022
Another Canada Day. The celebrations this year will be on the other side of the river, in Quebec. Anti-vaccine protester James Topp has arrived in Ottawa, where he was joined…
In Defence of Democracy.
It’s Canada Day, 2022, and never has Canada’s democracy been under greater challenge. While we try to lay to rest the vestiges of a pandemic, we find the burial sites…