The changing climate of class struggle
Wildfire smoke from Canada consumes New York City, June 7, 2023. Photo by Anthony Quintano/Flickr. Two very different developments in the last year, each affecting the lives of workers in…
Are Safer Schools Possible When it’s Not in the Rules?
I’ve been retired a year. Sometimes it feels like the last three decades were just a fever dream and I’ve always been a student, particularly since I’m back at the…
Time To Go Justin Trudeau.
Your sunny days are done, Justin. And few voters want to watch you being defeated by the Ottawa cowboy, Pierre Poilievre. We hear that your effort to provide Alberta with…
Social-conservative groups gear up for stealth takeover of Alberta school boards in coming elections
There’s plenty of chatter on social media about the plan by the United Conservative Party’s powerful and secretive Take Back Alberta faction to stealthily take over the province’s school boards…
Schism Appears Amongst "SaveTheChildren Convoy 2023 East Meets West" Convoy to Toronto Organizers
If I've said it once I've said it 1000 times, but if there are three things in life that are certain, those things are death, taxes, and the ironclad certainty…
Schism Appears Amongst "SaveTheChildren Convoy 2023 East Meets West" Convoy to Toronto Organizers
If I've said it once I've said it 1000 times, but if there are three things in life that are certain, those things are death, taxes, and the ironclad certainty…
Schism Appears Amongst "SaveTheChildren Convoy 2023 East Meets West" Convoy to Toronto Organizers
If I've said it once I've said it 1000 times, but if there are three things in life that are certain, those things are death, taxes, and the ironclad certainty…
Why the CBC Should Build Its Own Social Media Platform
In light of emergencies and the mess of Bill C-18, the CBC should push ahead with it’s own social media network. The post Why the CBC Should Build Its Own…
Targeted Protection
If we can figure out that most accidents involve, say, red cars, then instead of everybody wearing a seatbelt, we could just get those people who are vulnerable to traffic…
Let Me Entertain You.
Listening to Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie the other day was a surprise political event. It was the first time I had seen her give a speech to an audience. She…
Manufacturing Consent for War in Canada and the United States
In this webinar, organized by Peace Alliance Winnipeg, Colleen Bell and Yves Engler explain how governments in Canada and the United States shape public opinion to support their wars. The…
Saturday Photo: The Battle of the Invasives
Here are three invasive plants duking it out at Montreal’s Technoparc. The tall grass is Phragmites australis, which sets up shop at the edge of waterways as does the purple…
Alright – One More Post About Jordan Peterson
Okay – all the wagging mouths are going off about the latest ruling in the ongoing Jordan Peterson court drama. Over at Runkle of the Bailey on YouTube, Ian Runkle…
A World Built On Sand: It’s Time For A War Against Insecurity
In these times of political polarization and social fragmentation, there is something that unites us, that almost all of us experience in common – insecurity, insecurity in the face of…
Naval deployment
As a change from the usual subjects at In-Sights, here are photographs taken by Lorne Simpson of Victoria, a friend of 50 years or so. Lorne is a keen observer…
A city guy goes to the farm
As a child in the city, my knowledge of farm life was limited to what I saw on Green Acres (which was, for younger readers, a TV show about a…
A Crime Against Everyone
The Enclosure Movement was a push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at…
Take a Mask, Leave a Mask
Donate a Mask is an amazing group that helps get masks in people’s hands who couldn’t otherwise afford them. They’re helped immensely when others buy from them to offset the…