Happy Pride Month, but beware the growing hatred in Canada and elsewhere
June is the beginning of Pride Month in Toronto and most places in North America. It’s a time to celebrate the LGBTQ community, our history and the gains we’ve made…
Happy Pride Month, but beware the growing hatred in Canada and elsewhere
June is the beginning of Pride Month in Toronto and most places in North America. It’s a time to celebrate the LGBTQ community, our history and the gains we’ve made…
Mexican President Obrador (AMLO) Leaves Office With Overwhelming Popular Support
Brief thoughts on the Mexican federal election, being held here today – and the plague of propaganda, which now infects the world: Mexican President Obrador, known by his initials, AMLO,…
Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – Seth Borenstein, Mary Katherine Wildeman and Anita Snow find that the U.S. suffered a record number of heat-related deaths in 2023, while Aryan…
Students lift veil on university financing and demand end to genocide complicity
Scenes from the People’s Circle for Palestine at King’s College Circle on the University of Toronto Campus, May 2, 2024. Photo by Can Pac Swire/Flickr. The politics of power and…
Ottawa Declaration on Canadian Journalism wants to put subsidy genie back in bottle
Photo by greenzowie/Flickr In a classic case of “better late than never,” an Ottawa think tank has issued what it calls the Ottawa Declaration on Canadian Journalism urging news media…
Tyler Shandro, source of constant controversy as UCP health minister, turns up as member of Covenant Health Board
Former Alberta health minister Tyler Shandro has been a member of the board of Covenant Health since December 2023. Mr. Shandro as he now appears on the Covenant Health board…
Walking With Giants: How Economic Thought and Policy Evolves
Armine Yalnizyan, Atkinson Fellow on the Future for Workers – Recipient of the 2023 Galbraith Prize in Economics This lecture was delivered on May 31, 2024, at the Canadian Economics…
May 30: The Day Justice Prevailed
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy. Thirty-four criminal charges and found guilty for every one of them. Thirty four! Of course, I don’t have to tell…
You can’t turn back the clock on genocide
Black smoke rises in Gaza in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike. Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images. As Amal Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital…
Politics can be civilized
A message that dropped into my in-basket this week provided one of those moments that buoys your hope for humanity. And it was a political message at that. As a…
To those attacking Doug Ford for saying the truth
To pretend that those behind the explosion in antisemitism share our values is to be deeply stupid. They clearly don’t, whoever they are. Shooting up schools and firebombing places of…
Truth in advertising? Forget about it, says the UCP, assailing Bill C-59 ‘gag order’ in overwrought screed
Say what you will about Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government, you have to admire their sheer brass. Charlie Angus, the NDP MP for Timmins-James Bay (Photo: Facebook/Charlie Angus). Consider the…
Alberta could start small….
What I find remarkable about “small c-” Canadian Conservatives is how reluctant, how reticent, they are to acknowledge the economic change that is going on around them. Unlike Brian Mulroney…
Musical interlude
PVRIS – Mirrors
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jillian Ambrose reports on a study showing that there’s no reason to approve any new fossil fuel development to meet current demand forecasts…
Rich polluters pay for their sins
Amid the doom and gloom on the climate change front, we are occasionally treated to some good news. That was the case this week with the announcement by Environment Minister…