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 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…
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…
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…
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…
As Chogyam Trungpa said, “The first thing to do is cut the speed.” Slow down. Unplug from all media and electronics. Make time for stillness, silence and solitude. Reflect. Read,…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Amanda Marcotte examines the abusive father complex that somehow forms the basis for a large part of Donald Trump's support. Erica Green calls out…
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Naomi Klein discusses how Canada is failing the basic test of resistance to a fascist regime. - Meanwhile, Linda McQuaig recognizes that Canadians…
To say I am beside myself with disgust and loathing for our 'new' Liberal government would be an understatement. That is not to say, however, that I am the least…
I owe a debt of gratitude to Donald Trump.
Poilievre's last chance is the Battle River-Crowfoot byelection is Monday and I'm NOT looking forward to Tuesday. Poilievre promises Battle River-Crowfoot if elected they will never see him again— The…
The Conservative Party of Canada yesterday handed Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney an opportunity to do something bold that would be good for Canadian working people, improve the country’s labour…
Air Canada flight attendants during a demonstration at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Photo courtesy CUPE. On August 16, 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants walked off the job. Three day...
Dire wolves have now been “brought back from extinction”, through clever, or extremely reckless, genetic engineering. This is totally insane. The reason we have massive species loss, the sixth great…
Nothing but hot weather and sunshine around here for the last little bit. So far the native plants are doing all right, but we need rain!
Nothing but hot weather and sunshine around here for the last little bit. So far the native plants are doing all right, but we need rain!
Have our cultural icons lost their collective minds? Across the cultural landscape – music, film, books – it certainly seems that way. Musicians, filmmakers, authors have apparently persuaded themselves that…
No doubt, the temptation is great. With a stroke of a pen, the Liberal government could curry massive favour from both powerful corporate forces and the flying public, ordering striking…
I couldn't stand to watch even a minute of the obsessive news coverage about the Trump-Putin "summit", so I missed what may well go down in US history as the…
