Winnipeg’s hidden role in the global arms trade
CRV7 (Canadian Rocket Vehicle 7) ground attack rockets, produced by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Photo courtesy Magellan Aerospace. The Canadian arms industry is ofte...
Wednesday Night Cat Blogging
Blanketed cat.
Environment Canada Bad Air
I sent this to their feedback form: I’ve noticed an ongoing problem with the AQHI calculated for Regina the past week. 2 nights ago it was reported as moderate, while…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Blayne Haggart and Eric Duchesne point out that Mark Carney's idea of nation-building reflects little more than barely warmed-over 1980s neoliberalism - making for…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates July 22, 2025
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Look Over There! – Nothing To See Here
With all the troubles in the world, and all of the evil things that Trump and his henchmen have done, it almost beggars belief that the only thing the MAGATS…
The Longest Ballot Vulnerability
The Longest Ballot Committee has struck again, this time in the unnecessary Battle River-Crowfoot by-election prompted by Pierre Poilievre’s defeat in Carleton.
Canadians? Nasty? You ain’t seen nothing yet…
So the American ambassador Pete Hoekstra described Canadians as "nasty" on Monday, at the annual Pacific NorthWest Economic Region Foundation summit in Bellevue Washington: The ambassador made the remarks in…
When climate becomes class war
Flooded roads in downtown Houston, 2015. Photo by Elliot Blackburn/Flickr. There is a widespread and not completely unjustified perception on the left that movements that struggle for socially j...
Guest Post: Reduce ‘red tape’ and also have the highest environmental standards? Can’t be done!
Anyone who reads a lot of Alberta government news releases soon come to realize that there’s a kind of literary word salad in play – phrases that seem to mean…
Moral numbness
Writing for The Atlantic magazine, journalist David Brooks comments: There’s a question that’s been bugging me for nearly a decade. How is it that half of America looks at Donald…
Terawatts of clean energy
American company Quaise Energy is developing a new way to access the largest untapped energy source available. It will use established production methods of the fossil fuel industry, but the…
A Miller On America
This Facebook post captures the American Zeitgeist. Tragedy with a touch of conspiracy, and lots and lots of child abusers in power, apparently protected from prosecution. Antonia Zerbisias shared this.…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Tom Nichols discusses how the only discernible values behind the Trump regime are those of corruption and retribution. And Toby Buckle writes about…
A Note About Progressive Bloggers
Just a brief note: I was in recent contact with Scott Tribe, who operates the Progressive Bloggers aggregator. It appears that, owing to financial considerations, the website is down for…
Canada gets back to summer as usual — complaining about the Liberals!
(Remembering summer evenings - a mural in Kipling, Sask.)After the breakneck pace of patriotism and panic of the past seven months - Trump's 51st State threats and TACO tariffs, Trudeau's…