The impasse of ‘lesser evilism’
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at a Black History Month reception in the East Room of the White House, February 27, 2023. Photo by Adam Schultz/Flickr. Now…
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Today’s News: "The audacity of our hope; the vitality of our vote."
Here is poet Amanda Gorman's new poem The Sacred Scene at the Democratic National Convention. The speeches at this convention have been extraordinary. David Rothkopf thinks we're seeing the beginning…
Froomkin on political lying and fact-check failures
Froomkin says the party of America's right-wing — this applies in Canada too — abandoned forthright arguments in favor of dog-whistles and disinformation. In a late 2023 Globe & Mail…
The Carbon Tax You May Not Be Aware You Are Already Paying
Over the past few months there has been a lot of rhetoric by the BC United Party and the BC Conservative Party on scrapping the Carbon Tax. Of course, this…
BC NDP in 2024
My conclusion is that the BC NDP wants to do good things, but lacks the courage needed to achieve progressive goals. The party seems to believe that issuing a press…
Is it genocide?
The term “genocide,” like “racism,” is thrown around all too loosely these days. The definition... The post Is it genocide? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Anna Betts reports that the fallout from the climate crisis may include threats to blood donations, while Zoe Schlanger writes about the dangers of…
Legal News Post of the Day: August 21, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Disney drops request to have wrongful death lawsuit tossed over Disney+ subscription #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/l5crY81hmm - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Worst Scenario for a School Start Yet
In the fall of 2020 and 2021, we had masks, even if some were a poor fit or made of cloth. Now we have zero mitigations. School is starting soon…
A Piercing Sound
I am almost deafened by the dogwhistle here, as a tired and deflated Trump blows as hard as he can.You can provide your own translation of "suburban housewives" here, I…
My latest: Kamala’s secret power
Every successful politician has a secret power. Jean Chretien was a brilliant strategist and tactician. But he’d hide it behind the sports pages, and let his cocky opponents underestimate him.…
Don’t Count Your Chickens
It was a remarkable turn of events.
Europe at the ‘hot gates’
Graves of Ukrainian soldiers at the Lychakiv Cemetery, Lviv. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Some 2,500 years ago, so the myth goes, 300 Spartans faced a much larger Persian force at…
Larry Hubich, former SFL leader, connects the dots about who is actually putting the country at risk of a national rail shutdown
Reading the universally terrible mainstream news coverage of the continuing negotiations between the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference and Canada’s two largest rail corporations, not to mention angry commentary by anti-union…
Today’s News: Obama Nailed it!
Obama gave a great speech tonight at the DNC, but there was one "short" part in particular that will never be forgotten:Ok this is a perfect comedic delivery. pic.twitter.com/7ZOUaG9j19— Jason…
Conservatives: climate change deniers
BC Conservative Party leader John Rustad told KelownaNow that climate issues are not an existential threat and not a crisis. He said, "Matter of fact, I don't even think it's…
Thank goodness, there’s no known Alberta connection to Pierre Poilievre’s embarrassing ‘Canada, Our Home’ video!
Pierre Poilievre’s now infamous white-hat-and-white-T-shirt video was no sooner posted on Saturday than social media was lit up by mockers pointing out that almost none of the scenes used to…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Concentrating cat.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Jeff Masters sets out some of the anticipated timelines for climate change to fundamentally reshape life in the U.S. - with immense disruption…
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