Musical interlude
Tame Impala – Patience
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Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rylan Higgins argues that it’s long past time to move beyond a boom-and-bust oilpatch economy. And Ryan Meili writes that workers and residents…
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Dayen highlights a rare moment of honesty from the payday loan sharks in their recognition that fair wages would reduce the…
New column day
Here, on how Scott Moe has been left alone and isolated by the supposed “resistance”. (Though I’ll admit I underestimated his willingness to declare his unthinking support for anything suggested…
On rejected applications
Let’s see what Scott Moe is demanding from the federal government now… On the immigration file, one goal is to “assert provincial control over the (SINP).” Interesting. Now, there’s certainly…
Iron March Leak: Forum Moderator MOONLORD Was Former Calgary Blood & Honour Member, Active Canadian Forces, Supported Atomwaffen, and Apparently Selling Weapons to French Far-Right
NOTE: If the screen shots in this article are too small to read, please right click and open in a new tab. You can then size the image appropriately. I…
Travis Patron, Leader and Founder of Neo-Nazi Canadian Nationalist Party, Arrested: Charged With Assaulting Two Women
Samantha Craggs, a journalist for the CBC in Hamilton, ON, has just posted this: The founder & leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party has been arrested in connection with attacks…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – PressProgress examines the damage Doug Ford wants to inflict on children in Ontario’s education system. Fareed Khan calls out the right-wing politicians acting…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cuddly cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joseph Stiglitz discusses how decades of laissez-faire economics and deference to the rich have undermined any effective democratic decision-making. Bruce Boghosian observes…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Daniel Tencer reports on Ray Dalio’s recognition that the economic system which made him a multi-billionaire is broken. And Harvey Cashore, Chelsea Gomez…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Arwa Mahdawi writes that the outsized influence wielded by billionaires makes them something beyond merely wealthy people. Tom Whyman challenges the worship…
Gifters (Allegedly) Gotta Grift II: Ronny Cameron Jumps on Wexit Bandwagon and Joey Deluca Thinks He’s A Mobster (And is Racists AF)
Back on October 27 I wrote an article in which I discussed Steven Myatt’s apparent ghosting of a person he owes money to after his relocation to Alberta. He had…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – David Jones writes about the important benefits enjoyed by workers as the result of the efforts of the labour movement. And Arindrajit Dube…
Musical interlude
Big Wreck – Too Far Gone
Alberta’s Bill 207 (Conscience Rights)
Now that Bill 207 has been tabled in the Alberta Legislature, we can look at the bill and its implications more closely. What follows here is my personal analysis of…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Luke Savage responds to the attempt by neoliberals to escape growing discontent with corporate control and individual atomization by denying they actually represent…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Covered cats.