New Brunswick New Dems Defect En Masse to GPC
Is this the ‘Jagmeet Singh effect‘ in action? Fourteen disgruntled former New Brunswick NDP candidates are defecting and throwing their support behind the provincial and federal Greens — a move…
The Mound of Sound
Designer Meds – Courtesy of AI
There are signs that artificial intelligence may be the key to unlocking new, effective and affordable drugs for what ails us. From MIT Technology Review. The news: A team from…
War on Journalism
Axios reports that Trump allies are putting together a fund to launch investigations into reporters and editors of the New York Times, Washington Post and other media outlets. Trump’s war…
From America, A New Idea for Breathing Life Back Into Unions
Some of us were lucky to live through the early postwar era marked by the advance of a truly broad-based middle class, a time of genuine prosperity. The middle class…
What Is Our ‘Political Tipping Point’?
The chaos of Hurricane Dorian has climate writer, Kate Oronoff, asking how much destruction will it take for our leaders to treat climate change seriously. Donald Trump has been rightly…
Riding the Atlantic Tiger
Here’s how Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane expert and meteorologist at Colorado State University, demonstrates how dangerous Dorian really is. Since 1950, only 3 Atlantic hurricanes have had max winds stronger…
Spectators To Our Own Collapse
No one would accuse Chris Hedges of frivolously resorting to optimism but, to those who have followed him, his descent into deep pessimism in recent years has been profound, even…
Trudeau’s Squandered Opportunities
As Justin Trudeau nears the end of his government’s first majority mandate it is lamentable how his government still follows in Stephen Harper’s footprints. That’s the conclusion of an op-ed…
Texas, the Lone Gunman State
Some Texans claim that their state was founded on guns – the Alamo, cowboys, the legendary Texas Rangers. And they’re not going to let a few gun massacres get in…
A Cautionary Tale – Live In Harmony With Your Environment or You’re Out.
Of course we’re Masters of the Universe or so we like to imagine. It’s just that once what was a fanciful conceit is now a dangerous, potentially lethal indulgence. Today…
Oooh, Taking Trudeau to Task
The Tyee’s Mitchell Anderson writes that prominent Liberals are pretty hypocritical in castigating Brazilian thug Bolsonaro over the fires raging in the Amazon. Oopsie! This week, former Liberal cabinet ministers…
A Little Progressive Inspiration for the Labour Day Weekend
Enjoy Roosevelt’s doctors concluded it would be too dangerous to remove the bullet and so Roosevelt carried it for the rest of his life. If you’re interested, you can find…
Kim Campbell Rooting for Dorian to Take Out Mar-a-Lardo
Former prime minister Kim Campbell has stirred up a controversy by tweeting that she’s rooting for Hurricane Dorian to take out Trump’s resort, Mar-a-Lago. I suppose that’s beneath the decorum…
Are We Willing to Lose This Without Even Putting Up a Fight?
How do you not show up to fight against an existential threat? It’s existential. It imperils your very existence. Jason Kenney’s Canada, Scott Moe’s Canada, Doug Ford’s Canada as well…
"This Is Our Country, Not Theirs"
A Freudian slip? Probably more like a white nationalist dog whistle. The Trump campaign issued a communique to the Trump faithful attacking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Democrats who advocate abolishing…
US Cities Most at Risk from Climate Change Are the Least Prepared
If you’re from Newark or Los Angeles, Miami or New Orleans, when it comes to climate change it sucks to be you. A real estate web site, listwithclever.com, crunched the…
While All Eyes Are On the Amazon…
Yes it’s a terrible thing. Yes the deliberately set fires ravaging the Amazon rain forest may have dire impacts on climate change, what are called ‘knock-on effects.’ Yes we should…
This Is Gonna Hurt
It’s said that some people see a half-glass of wine as half-empty. Others will see the glass half-full. I see walls. Screw the damned glass. The wine glass business is…
What Is It With Scumbags and Proroguing Parliaments?
Who can forget how Stephen Harper, aided and abetted by a dim and spineless Governor General, pulled his fat out of the fire by proroguing Parliament as the 2007/2008 Great…
Mad Dog Nips at His Master’s Heels
He didn’t last very long but, while he did, former defense secretary, Marine general James Mattis, was considered to be the sane, calm voice inside the Trump administration. Now Mattis…