Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The Lever examines new research showing how private equity is systematically funnelling risk and underperformance to less wealthy investors. And Charlie Warzel discusses how…
A Small Victory In A Much Larger Battle
While many see the victory of CUPE and Air Canada flight attendants as a major achievement (and it is), perhaps it is better to see the win within the context…
A Small Victory In A Much Larger Battle
While many see the victory of CUPE and Air Canada flight attendants as a major achievement (and it is), perhaps it is better to see the win within the context…
Texas Is Why Parliamentary Privilege Exists
Dustin Burrows is a name that will one day have his own chapter in the Anthology of American Fascism.
Today’s News: updates on Trump’s Gestapo plans and Gavin Newsom’s trolling, plus Marc Elias writes about Hope
You know, if I lived in the United States now, I might think twice about blogging. I know my little blog would never be considered to be a marshalling point…
Summertime in the age of upheaval
Wildfires burn near Flin Flon, Manitoba in June 2025. Photo courtesy the Government of Manitoba. Summertime and the living is uneasy. Geopolitical and climate change dangers demand our attention...
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Angular cat.
Skeptic.com: The Contradiction at the Heart of Gender Debates
Over at Skeptic.com(*), we find an article titled "The Contradiction at the Heart of Gender Debates". This is one of those cases of the author writing something which is so…
Skeptic.com: The Contradiction at the Heart of Gender Debates
Over at Skeptic.com(*), we find an article titled "The Contradiction at the Heart of Gender Debates". This is one of those cases of the author writing something which is so…
My pragmatic OLP leadership take that will probably make everyone upset
I have been confirmed as a voting delegate from Ottawa Centre for the upcoming Ontario Liberal Party annual meeting in Toronto, and I will be voting against a leadership review.…
My pragmatic OLP leadership take that will probably make everyone upset
I have been confirmed as a voting delegate from Ottawa Centre for the upcoming Ontario Liberal Party annual meeting in Toronto, and I will be voting against a leadership review.…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Tim Dickinson laments that so many corporations, universities and other entities with the resources to stand up to Donald Trump are instead choosing…
An empathetic drought
PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY – Barack Obama called it the “empathy deficit” – which the former U.S. President defined as “being able to stand in somebody else’s shoes and see the…
Bear with me
Our family has lived for decades at the edge of the forest in North Vancouver’s Seymour River valley. Bear encounters are not rare. We’ve had these animals in our yard…
Note to readers
Renovation work underway in and around our home explains why this site has been quiet recently. That and the July trip Gwen and I took across the ocean, which allowed…
Today’s News: a weekend roundup of news about the Air Canada flight attendants strike, the Poilievre byelection, and the Europe-Zelenskyy-Trump meeting
Its hard to keep up with all the news just now, isn't it -- I don't do much news in my "funday" posts on Saturday nights, and I usually don't…
No drama. No surprise. Pierre Poilievre wins without breaking into a sweat
No drama. No surprise. Pierre Poilievre won without breaking into a sweat. So what else is new? After last night, or maybe today, the good voters of Battle River-Crowfoot will…
Class struggle unionism, auto workers, Reds, and the 1930s
A large crowd gathers outside the General Motors plant in Oshawa, April 9, 1937. The strike was a key moment in the fight for industrial unionism in Canada and a…
NEW UPDATE: Is This The Solution?
I continue to be befuddled by the fact that airlines can mandate unpaid work for its flight attendants. A check of the Canadian Labour Code shed no light, as it…
NEW UPDATE: Is This The Solution?
I continue to be befuddled by the fact that airlines can mandate unpaid work for its flight attendants. A check of the Canadian Labour Code shed no light, as it…