Book review: Overlook: A Rock and Roll Fable, by Paul Smart
This is a story of two men on road trips toward Woodstock, New York in 1986. This is not the Woodstock made famous by a music festival; that was actually…
2024
Danielle Smith’s Parental Rights Agenda
Last week in pursuit of her “parental rights” agenda, Premier Smith announced a set of policies that limited medical treatment for transgender youth and did a whole lot more. I…
The worst photo op in history
Fascinating debate between Jewish and Palestinian historians in the new New York Times magazine. The only point they really agreed on was that the Holocaust accelerated the migration of surviving…
Alberta’s Proposed Trans Policy
It's been 3 days since Premier Danielle Smith dropped a bomb on Alberta's transgender community, and I'm still reeling. I'm alternating between being angry with the government, and grieving for…
Alberta’s Proposed Trans Policy
It's been 3 days since Premier Danielle Smith dropped a bomb on Alberta's transgender community, and I'm still reeling. I'm alternating between being angry with the government, and grieving for…
Alberta’s War on Rights Will Become Poilievre’s War on Rights
Alberta’s War on Rights Will Become Poilievre’s War on Rights The post Alberta’s War on Rights Will Become Poilievre’s War on Rights first appeared on Excited Delirium.
John Saul and the meaning of solidarity
John Shannon Saul was a Canadian political economist and socialist solidarity activist whose academic work focused on liberation struggles in southern Africa. He died last year in September. John Shannon…
‘Kenneyism: Jason Kenney’s Pursuit of Power’ by Jeremy Appel is a strong second draft of history
Last Summer, Jeremy Appel, one of Alberta’s best young journalists, approached me to ask if I would write a foreword to the book he was completing on Jason Kenney’s big…
My latest: the Jew-haters plan
Young people are anti-Semitic. Not all of them, of course. But, these days, too many. Polling done since the massacres of October 7 tell a deeply disturbing story: vast swaths…
i used to be an activist: another piece of myself has gone missing. or maybe it’s on hiatus.
In my experience, the best activism begins like this.I used to be an activist.Not being actively involved in a grassroots movement, a part of myself is lost. It's an intentional…
BC scandal metastasizes
BC NDP MLA Selina Robinson speaks during a public Zoom call hosted by B’nai Brith on January 30, 2024. She referred to Gaza as a “crappy piece of land” in…
i used to be an activist: another piece of myself has gone missing. or maybe it’s on hiatus.
In my experience, the best activism begins like this. I used to be an activist. Not being actively involved in a grassroots movement, a part of myself is lost. It’s…
The Irony Behind Conservatism
Modern Conservatives don’t conserve anything. Max Fawcett writes: Of all Pierre Poilievre’s familiar slogans, there’s one that stands above the rest: Canada is broken. There’s no shortage of irony there,…
Seize the Moment!
Until we redefine prosperity, consumption will continue to drive us down a destructive path (from Joe Tegerdine). People are going to fly to vacation spots to sit in the sun…
The Death Of Materialism & The Rebirth Of The World
The Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm, or world view, of atomistic, dualistic, mechanistic reductionism, is a very recent, 400 year old delusion, a recent blink of the eye, and is now crumbling as…
Words of Wisdom — from Dark Brandon to Ford v Trudeau to Taylor Swift to Wikipedia’s finest moment
Some interesting columns this week First, there was this controversy: Isn’t this why Trump voters like him though https://t.co/c0eXBjuKdF — Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly) (@drewmckevitt) February 2, 2024…
What happened on October 7
Here is a portion of the video I saw a few weeks ago. It’s what Israel presented at the ICJ. I assume it was released because the victims’ families agreed.…
Musical interlude
Everything But The Girl – Caution To The Wind