Do you remember that time Jason Kenney promised a Summer of Repeal? A recent shot of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney during the lead-up to the Summer of Resignation, which will…
Once again mass shootings stalk America. Ten dead in Buffalo, 21 in Uvalde, Texas. In less than two weeks. Both shooters were teenagers. Once again there are loud outcries for…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bruce Arthur is rightly frustrated by an attitude of utter denial and amnesia toward a pandemic still in progress. And Fenit Nirappil, Craig…
Mark Bittman’s Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal is a fascinating, readable, and wide-ranging nonfiction. With clear and simple language, Bittman unpacks the many threads…
The Impasse of the Latin American Left Franck Gaudichaud, Jeffery R. Webber, and Massimo Modonesi Duke University Press, 2022 Can the firebrand Hugo Chávez, with his embrace of ”21st century…
There’s a lot of palaver on social media about right v. left (or left v. right if you are so inclined), with webs of comments about the differences between these…
I’m not nearly as alarmed as @PierrePoilievre will be to hear that I am traveling with him. #cdnpoli #cpc @ClintonDesveaux pic.twitter.com/sLeohYvqrC — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 30, 2022
A carbon capture plant built by Climateworks in Hinwil, Switzerland. Photo by Adam Sébire/Keystone/Redux. Carbon Engineering, the carbon removal start-up based in Squamish, BC’s “Outdoor Recreation Capital,” recently announced an…
I have nothing to add to this depiction by Michael de Adder of a diseased America we would all be well-advised to steer clear of. Recommend this Post
Jennifer Rubin doesn’t mince words. She writes in The Washington Post: Now is the time for precise language. “Forces” are not the problem; one political movement encased within the Republican…
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Toulouse, April 16, 2017. Photo by MathieuMD/Wikimedia Commons. On May 29, the united French left presented a program of 650 propositions, offering a glimpse of what left…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 30, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: The Great Resignation: The toll taken on the legal field and what…
An acquaintance was berating me the other day for preferring first-past-the-post voting. The truth is though that I would really prefer run-off elections in every electoral district where needed. It…
What a week! Here’s some funny stuff to start the next one. With dogs too, of course: man i don’t think i have another “why is jk rowling trending?” left…
May 26, 2022 marked Jason Kenny’s last appearance in the Legislature as Alberta’s premier (we think). His final week was replete with members’ statements applauding his leadership, his legacy, and…
Ed Mead (revolutionary, former urban guerilla, and ex-prisoner) recently appeared on the excellent Millennials Are Killing Capitalism podcast for an hour-long interview. We highly recommend checking it out. See below…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Selena Simmons-Duffin writes about the large number of COVID cases going unreported – and thus unaccounted for in risk mitigation – due…
How privatization of social services and healthcare is moving forward in Ontario from an anonymous ODSP employment provider: (from here with links to articles here and here) Ford two years…
