Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ainslie Cruickshank reports on new polling showing that most Canadians support a transition to a clean energy economy even without having received much…
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Review — BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom
A short, sharp book exploring what is necessary in Canada, in this era of Black Lives Matter, to transform dominant conceptions of Black personhood – which is to say, dominant…
Review — BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom
A short, sharp book exploring what is necessary in Canada, in this era of Black Lives Matter, to transform dominant ...
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Kate Lyons points out the health effects of our climate breakdown, including childhood deaths and the stunting of growth. Pheobe Weston reports…
Wednesday Morning Links
This and that for your mid-week reading. – Noah Smith writes about the unfairness and inaccuracy in blaming people for finding themselves in poverty. And Sarah Kaine and Emmanuel Josserand…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Blanketed cats.
Anti-LGTBQ and Islamophobic Extremist Chris Vanderweide is REALLY Good at Alienating People
I know there's a tendency for ARC to highlight the rampant dysfunction and infighting of the far-right groups we cover on the blog (as our friends with Yellow Vests Canada…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – CBC News highlights how cost-of-living issues look to play a key role in Canada’s federal election. And Jerry-Lynn Scofield points out that…
Juxtaposition
The effect of the perpetual fear of falling downwards on ideology: As far as there are forces at play that push job losers to the right of the ideological spectrum,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bob Rivett highlights the fact that climate protesters are motivated by the desire to save our world from the reckless corporations and politicians…
Sunday Morning LInks
This and that for your Sunday reading. – James Cairns discusses why socialism is seeing a resurgence in popularity, particularly among younger citizens who see little reason for hope in…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Norm Farrell examines some of the root causes of a political system which lavishes benefits on the wealthy while neglecting people who actually…
Musical interlude
Elliot Middleton feat. Lynn Gunn – Begin
Paul Fromm with Maxime Bernier: Pleased With PPC Immigration Platform
So rather than engaging in the usual long-winded lead up I engage in, let’s just get to the point on this one: Yep, white supremacist Paul Fromm, seen here with…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that the wealthiest few have responded to the rise of populism by funding their own killer clowns to assume power…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Derrick O’Keefe writes that our federal election should be focusing on the growing climate crisis, not being sidetracked by such trivialities as…
New column day
Here, on how the meat and dairy industries alone are offering far too many examples of how entrenched corporate interests are using both government power and their own clout to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Niki Ashton writes about Justin Trudeau’s glaring failure to understand the importance of parity in services and genuine nation-to-nation recognition as core elements…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Festooned cats.
Guest Article: The Canadian Far-Right an Eco’s Hallmarks of Fascism
I had been planning on writing an article for the blog detailing Umberto Eco's fourten hallmarks of fascism and even started gathering some relevant screenshots (some of which I have…