Do they Not Get Any Canadian News In Peru?
I had to wonder after reading this story and watching the video below. After all, asserting to be Mike Duffy’s daughter is not something that most people would claim, given…
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A Mound Of Sound Guest Post: Climate Change By The Numbers
One of the great malignancies of the 20th century was the spread of neo-classical economics. the macro- and micro-stuff that you probably had to learn in university. I did a…
Giving Credit Where It Is Due
Over the years on this blog, I have been deeply and justifiably critical of the excesses of unfettered capitalism. Degradation of the environment, activities contributing to widescale climate change, and…
Message From Orwell: "I Warned You" – A Mound Of Sound Guest Post
You don’t have to dig very deep to get a pretty clear picture of the decline of today’s global civilization. The good times are gone, over, finished. We’re out of…
The Lethal Dysfunction Of The Far Right: A Mound of Sound Guest Post
Problem: you’re already getting hammered by early-onset climate change. Solution: deny it’s happening, look the other way, think happy thoughts. It sounds ridiculously dysfunctional and it is but that is…
Oh, And One More Thing
It seems I, Martin Regg Cohn and Cheri DiNovo aren’t the only ones to take issue with Andrea horwath’s leadership these days: Re:Horwath admits ‘bittersweet’ election result, July 9 I…
Andrea Comes Down From Her Perch
But only a little bit. And only because her campaign is being criticized from within. As I noted in a recent post, Ontario NDP leader Andrea’s Horwath’s hubris following what…
Has Harper Betrayed The West? A Mound Of Sound Guest Post
Recent summer flooding across southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba seems to be bringing the reality of climate change home to the people of the prairies and it’s drawing some unwelcome…
The Harper Regime Receives Another Judicial Rebuke
Things continue to go from bad to worse on the judicial front for the Harper regime. Funny how those pesky laws get in the way of government ideology, isn’t it?…
Canada’s ‘Newspaper Of Record’ Further Debases Itself
Currently, The Globe and Mail, the hubristically self-proclaimed newspaper of record and Canada’s national newspaper, is embroiled in an ugly labour dispute with its workers. In a statement issued last…
UPDATED: From The Mound Of Sound: A Basis For Optimism
The Mound writes: Hi Lorne. I spotted this article in the ‘comments’ section of The Guardian. It’s been a while since I heard anything this encouraging on the climate change…
Your Monday Morning Smile
An editorial cartoonist captures a Heritage Moment nicely: Recommend this Post
Not So Hard To Understand
This morning’s Star reports the fact that Canada’s sesquicentennial in 2017 is eliciting something less than enthusiasm from the majority of Canadians living outside of Alberta: Albertans are far more…
Believe It Or Not
Readers of a certain age will remember an erstwhile popular feature carried in many newspapers, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. Each day we would be invited to view a vignette…
Andrea Horwath: Her Smugness Takes A Hit
The other day, while watching some reactions to the Ontario Throne Speech, I couldn’t help but note a truculent and smug Andrea Horwath, the leader of an NDP party now…
Disingenuous At Best, Hypocritical At Worst
To listen to post-election Ontario Tories and to take them at their word would suggest that the lot of them were simply dupes of Machiavellian forces over which they had…
We really Are Limited Only by Our Imagination
I think this story and the accompanying video amply demonstrate this: Recommend this Post
On Federal Byelections
It is commonly held that Stephen Harper chose June 30 for the four recent byelections in the anticipation that turnout would be low. Even the advance polls, which were set…
Happy Canada Day
I was originally going to take the day off from blogging, but then, after reading the editorial in today’s Star along with some letters reflecting what people would wish for…