Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Danielle Martin highlights how investments in ending poverty including a basic income can improve health outcomes among other key social indicators: Far more…
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Donald Trump and the Basket of Deplorables
I'm sure you all remember the day Hillary Clinton called some of Donald Trump's supporters a "basket of deplorables"And I'm sure you remember how Trump howled with outrage, and managed…
Lessons From Rex Tillerson*
If Rex Tillerson, the former head of ExxonMobil and Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, taught a class on pipeline strategy Brian Jean would be stuck at the front…
Stuff Still Happens, week 50 : Why won’t this horrible year just END?
A meltdown of humanity. That vivid phrase was used this week by a UN spokesman, in reference to the final days of the battle for Aleppo. It’s not a bad…
Donald Trump and the Spectre of Treason
The only thing scarier than thinking about what Donald Trump might do to our neighbours, is thinking what he might do to the planet.Because not only is he planning to…
The Shape Of Things To Come?
The other day, I wrote a post about how NBC Nightly News was attacked by Donald Trump via his weapon of choice, Twitter, a perhaps apt mechanism given the president-elect’s…
Trying To Come To Terms With The Grim Year 2016
Like so many others I will always remember the year 2016 as an absolute nightmare, an annus horribilis if ever there was one.A year that began promisingly in the still…
Donald Trump and the Restaurant Review From Hell
As we all know Donald Trump is always raging about the way the media treats him, the lying media as he likes to call them.And encouraging his 17-million Twitter followers…
Rogue One, a Right Wing Wars Story: wherein the Wildrose Party’s Derek Fildebrandt slips his leader’s leash
PHOTOS: Wildrose Party Finance Critic Derek Fildebrandt going rogue at Rebel Media’s Calgary anti-everything rally last Sunday (CBC photo). Below: Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jason Kenney as imagined for this…
Trump energy policy holds out dangers for Canada
Chairman of the Board of USA Inc. President-elect Trump has started selecting his “cabinet”, and the implications for Canada’s economy are significant: In a move that might be a bit…
Trump energy policy holds out dangers for Canada
Chairman of the Board of USA Inc. President-elect Trump has started selecting his “cabinet”, and the implications for Canada’s economy are significant: In a move that might be a bit…
Donald Trump and the Road to Resistance
If you put a toga on him he would look like an American Caesar.Donald Trump basking in the warm glow of his inflamed supporters, as he continues his triumphal "Thank…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Miles Corak offers a must-read paper on the two stories most often told about inequality in Canada, reaching this conclusion on the recent…
Death threats, a noose on a hockey stick, opponents kicked out … Calgary Rebel Media rally was another goon show
PHOTOS: They say a photo is worth a thousand words. This one, taken at Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media rally in Calgary yesterday, certainly speaks for itself. Obviously, not all the…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Dani Rodrik writes that today’s brand of trade agreement has little to do with economic theory as opposed to political power: What…
Is It Time To Take a Break from Social Media?
I must admit I've been finding to hard to blog or tweet or do anything on social media these days. It's just getting too crazy out there.The blogosphere is too…
Donald Trump and the Great Russian Conspiracy
We already knew that a small legion of Russian hackers had intervened in the U.S. election, hacking e-mails, and spreading fake news stories.And we knew that Vladimir Putin would not…
Donald Trump and the Madman of the Year
It's Time Magazine's ugliest Person of the Year cover since it awarded Adolf Hitler that dubious honour.And Donald Trump is reported to be conflicted. On the one hand his massive…
Donald Trump and the Man Who Would Torch the Planet
Everybody knew that Donald Trump was a climate change denier, a man who believes that global warming is a hoax.He's made that abundantly clear… Over and over again.But still the…
The Day Donald Trump Fired One Of His Trolls
Donald Trump had an army of trolls working for him during the election, spreading fake stories, and flaming his opponents. So it was quite a shock to see him fire…