Corporate Crocodile Tears: A Guest Post
In response to my post yesterday about CBC bias in its reporting on Ontario’s minimum wage increase, the Mound wrote a detailed commentary that I am featuring today as a…
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What Humanity Has Wrought
Only moronic literalists (a.k.a.Trump and those who are similarly incapacitated) will see this current deep freeze as a refutation of global warming. The rest will see it as part of…
A Dirty Job
But Bill Nye is up for it as he continues his often thankless crusade against abysmal ignorance. Hmm, I wonder if the evangelicals, who generally fall into the latter category,…
An Object Lesson For Canada
Since the avowed aim of legalizing recreational cannabis is to keep the product out of the hands of kids by driving out the black market, our federal and provincial governments…
A New Year Offers New Opportunities
One of the reasons that a new year excites people, I suppose, is that it offers a psychological opportunity to start anew. Our personal world beckons with a fresh slate…
Voter Suppression And Gerrymandering
Robert Reich does his usual fine job of warning about threats to American society and democracy posed by the entrenched interests who care nothing for principle and everything about the…
If The Shoe Fits
For some strange reason, this resonates with me: Recommend this Post
When All Else Fails
… claim voter fraud. That is what the notoriously graceless Alabama loser and alleged pedophile Roy Moore is asserting, as he steadfastly maintains that he didn’t lose the election to…
Not All That Surprising
Given the downright insanity that seems to pervade American evangelical circles, and given their habit of richly perverting the message of Christ, I am really not surprised that a disproportionate…
The Future Is Bright
For plastics, that is. For the rest of us, not so much. Despite the terrible environmental problems posed by plastic pollution, The Guardian reports that the future will see more…
Is There No Bottom To Canada’s Shame?
Apparently not, if you are talking about the craven, rudderless and unprincipled Trudeau government that is making us all look bad. As reported by CBC, a toadying and craven Canada…
Facing Hypocrisy
Last month, I read an article by the redoubtable George Monbiot that left me both shaken and, for a period of time, quite depressed. It forced me to face some…
He Who Controls Language, Controls Thought
“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing…
It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way
Should he find the federal leadership of the NDP not to his taste, I suspect that Jagmeet Singh has more than one career option to fall back on. He could,…
On Public Asset Sales
Selling off public assets that yield steady and lucrative revenue streams is rarely a good idea. In Ontario, Kathleen Wynne did just that with 60% of Hydro One so she…
The Corporate Imperative At Work
Robert Reich continues to fight the good fight. Recommend this Post
Nothing New To Report
Here is a perfect illustration of why unfettered capitalism and ethics are incompatible: Canada’s national pension fund manager is among a group of Canadian companies that are undermining the federal…