When Danielle Smith is sworn in today as Alberta’s still-unelected United Conservative Party premier, there can be no doubt she has executed a remarkable comeback. NDP Opposition Leader and former…
Lula at the World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2003. Photo by John Pinel Donoghue. Brazil’s first round of elections, held on October 2, yielded a major victory for the…
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Robert Reich rightly questions why trickle-down economics are still being pushed even after decades of consistent failure to accomplish any goal other than…
You have probably heard all about PP courting the incels, a profoundly misogynistic conglomeration of sad sacks who hate women because they can’t seem to forge a relationship with them.…
Canadian politics have become Trumpified. Michael Harris writes: The same distemper abroad in the U.S. has already made an appearance here. No one talks much about the Freedom Convoy’s purpose…
The only person pleased with Doug Ford as premier of Ontario is likely his tailor. You can take old suits in but it is obvious if you try to let…
My blog lately doesn’t have enough good content, and I can’t claim this is either, but it’s how I feel and apparently someone else does too: “Nobody who is trying…
Did anyone catch Danielle Smith’s victory speech? In it she did three things: She started to back away from her key campaign promise, the Sovereignty Act She characterized the UCP…
On average, economies of resource-rich countries do not outperform countries lacking those natural materials. According to Jeffrey Frankel, Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard’s Kennedy School, this results…
Photo by Stephen Yang/The Solutions Project/Flickr The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) constitutes the boldest climate action so far by the American federal government. It offers tax rebates…
This file photograph shows Thomas Sankara as he reviews troops in a street of Ouagadougou, during celebrations of the second anniversary of the Burkina Faso’s revolution. Photo by Daniel Lane/AP.…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Dhruv Khullar writes about the likelihood that a continued lack of public health measures will push the vast majority of people toward…
I forgot to post this from last month – my monthly posting at 3 Quarks Daily: A student asked, “How many bad actions does a good person have to do…
Inside the Port Hardy Library September and October have been a whirlwind for me at the library. In September, we hosted a locally famous author. Yvonne Maximchuk lives on a…
If you want to know how far the Republican Party has devolved, take a look at what’s happening in the state of Georgia. Maureen Dowd writes: Once, there were limits,…
If there is one thing consistent among conservatives in Canada, it is the way they choose their leaders. There were six candidates for leader in the latest round in Alberta.…
Remember Friendly, Jerome and Rusty? Here is an hilarious thread: DYING at the Canadians in the Zoom talking about The Friendly Giant and the Americans being like “WTF there was…
It didn’t take United Conservative Party Leader and premier designate Danielle Smith long to change her story about why there will be no by-election in the Calgary-Elbow riding, which has…
Latest. Three by four. Yours, if we can figure out how to deliver it to you. pic.twitter.com/FuVBEHGeQh — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 8, 2022
