Note to readers
Renovation work underway in and around our home explains why this site has been quiet recently. That and the July trip Gwen and I took across the ocean, which allowed…
August 2025
Today’s News: a weekend roundup of news about the Air Canada flight attendants strike, the Poilievre byelection, and the Europe-Zelenskyy-Trump meeting
Its hard to keep up with all the news just now, isn't it -- I don't do much news in my "funday" posts on Saturday nights, and I usually don't…
No drama. No surprise. Pierre Poilievre wins without breaking into a sweat
No drama. No surprise. Pierre Poilievre won without breaking into a sweat. So what else is new? After last night, or maybe today, the good voters of Battle River-Crowfoot will…
Class struggle unionism, auto workers, Reds, and the 1930s
A large crowd gathers outside the General Motors plant in Oshawa, April 9, 1937. The strike was a key moment in the fight for industrial unionism in Canada and a…
NEW UPDATE: Is This The Solution?
I continue to be befuddled by the fact that airlines can mandate unpaid work for its flight attendants. A check of the Canadian Labour Code shed no light, as it…
NEW UPDATE: Is This The Solution?
I continue to be befuddled by the fact that airlines can mandate unpaid work for its flight attendants. A check of the Canadian Labour Code shed no light, as it…
Save Your Mind, Save Your Freedom, And Save The World – Slow Down
As Chogyam Trungpa said, “The first thing to do is cut the speed.” Slow down. Unplug from all media and electronics. Make time for stillness, silence and solitude. Reflect. Read,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Amanda Marcotte examines the abusive father complex that somehow forms the basis for a large part of Donald Trump's support. Erica Green calls out…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Naomi Klein discusses how Canada is failing the basic test of resistance to a fascist regime. - Meanwhile, Linda McQuaig recognizes that Canadians…
UPDATED: A Craven Capitulation To Corporate Canada
To say I am beside myself with disgust and loathing for our 'new' Liberal government would be an understatement. That is not to say, however, that I am the least…
Rediscovering Canada
I owe a debt of gratitude to Donald Trump.
Sunday Funday: Poilievre’s last chance, let’s dance, some oddball sports, random funny stuff, NSFW cartoons, Elbows Up!, TrumpWatch (special Alaska edition), and Animal Crackers
Poilievre's last chance is the Battle River-Crowfoot byelection is Monday and I'm NOT looking forward to Tuesday. Poilievre promises Battle River-Crowfoot if elected they will never see him again— The…
Is PM Mark Carney liberal enough to take Conservatives up on a rare reasonable response to the short-lived Air Canada flight attendants’ strike?
The Conservative Party of Canada yesterday handed Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney an opportunity to do something bold that would be good for Canadian working people, improve the country’s labour…
Air Canada and the erosion of collective bargaining
Air Canada flight attendants during a demonstration at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Photo courtesy CUPE. On August 16, 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants walked off the job. Three day...
Dire Wolves, GMOs, And The Madness Of Modern “Civilization”
Dire wolves have now been “brought back from extinction”, through clever, or extremely reckless, genetic engineering. This is totally insane. The reason we have massive species loss, the sixth great…
Saturday Photo: Sunflowers on a Sunny Day
Nothing but hot weather and sunshine around here for the last little bit. So far the native plants are doing all right, but we need rain!
Saturday Photo: Sunflowers on a Sunny Day
Nothing but hot weather and sunshine around here for the last little bit. So far the native plants are doing all right, but we need rain!
Welcome to the artsy-fartsy reality-free zone
Have our cultural icons lost their collective minds? Across the cultural landscape – music, film, books – it certainly seems that way. Musicians, filmmakers, authors have apparently persuaded themselves that…
UPDATED: Will They Or Won’t They?
No doubt, the temptation is great. With a stroke of a pen, the Liberal government could curry massive favour from both powerful corporate forces and the flying public, ordering striking…