Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Peter Kalmus discusses how climate scientists are increasingly turning to civil disobedience to try to alert people to the need for immediate…
2022
Maybe Kenney should let the lunatics take over the asylum
If I may borrow from an oft-repeated phrase from TV news, I’m going to begin this column with this: WARNING: some content may be disturbing. OK, here goes … I’m…
Saturday Photo: Pussy Willows
Another sign of spring. Am I right that the French term is saule discolore? What a disappointing name!
(Emma) KINSELLACAST 205: With Em, Mraz, Lilley, Kheiriddin, Belanger, Richardson – plus Menzingers & Wet Leg!
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What you didn’t know about the Liberal-NDP pharmacare plan
Despite the fanfare, the clause on pharmacare contained in the new Liberal-NDP agreement lacked in both detail and ambition. Photo by James Yarema/Unsplash. There is one true measure of the…
[New Book] On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death
The author of the new Common Notions book, On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death, recently sat down for an interview with Free City Radio. To learn more about the book,…
Canada’s Housing Crisis
Canada’s housing situation is less about what supply should be pumped into the market and more about managing what we have more efficiently. The post Canada’s Housing Crisis first appeared…
Making Things Worse
In Ontario, we’re living in a make-believe world. Bruce Arthur writes: About a month after the province announced masking was no longer mandatory, Omicron is everywhere. With testing limited and…
A ‘No Future’ Budget.
Whatever happened to ‘Building Back Better?’ Conservative Pierre Poilievre could have written that budget speech from finance minister Cynthia Freeland. Just who the hell she was out to impress, nobody…
Today’s News: "An opportunity to forgive"
I just saw this great photo from Brandi Morin’s great piece last week in the Toronto Star, showing Dr. Wilton Littlechild celebrating in Rome after Pope Francis apologized for the…
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney lays out his case to keep his job to small crowd of carefully curated supporters
If he is to survive politically, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney must thread a needle – appeasing enough of his United Conservative Party’s base to keep his job without frightening so…
Calgary’s three angry amigos
I have lived in Alberta a long time, all but four years under conservative governments—Social Credit, then Progressive Conservative, now UCP. Only for four years did I enjoy the governance…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Stephanie Dubois reports on the growing body of research showing that the risk of COVID-19 reinfection is worsening due to the Omicron variants.…
Winnipeggers speak out against Trudeau’s military spending plans
Winnipeg, April 8, 2022: Glenn Michalchuk (r) delivers a statement criticizing federal government military spending plans to the office of Jim Carr, MP (Winnipeg South Centre). Photo: Paul S. Graham…
Page On The Budget
Former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page has weighed in on the budget: Budget 2022 is surprisingly measured, modest and responsible. Many budget observers had early expectations and concerns about a…
Profiteering in Food.
That young guy who runs Canada’s Weston Empire appears to be getting ahead of the game. He can enthusiastically raise prices in Loblaws, Zehrs, No Frills, Provigo, Superstore or Shoppers…
Today’s News: Odds and ends
Tonight’s photo: the children’s play area at Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art. The Museum has transformed itself to aid Ukrainian refugees Tonight I don’t have much that is “new” in…
Five Little Indians, Atlas of the Heart, perennial favourites, return to top of independent bookshops’ bestseller lists
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, April 3, 2022. The lists are compiled…
Musical interlude
Kadebostany – Mind If I Stay
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that rhetoric about “learning to live with it” has become the go-to excuse to allow preventable tragedies – including the…