Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Jonathan Last writes about the perfect storm in which economic, financial and constitutional crises - all originating from the deliberate choices of the…
Mark Carney
What does Mark Carney’s win and Pierre Poilievre’s loss mean for Alberta?
Danielle Smith’s sovereignty agenda gives the Liberals a generational opportunity to reset with Albertans https://daveberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/podcast/Daveberta-ep-99-preview.mp3 New and recent episodes of the Daveberta Podcast are available exclusi...
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Jim Stanford offers a reminder of the problems with treating raw GDP as a proxy for well-being or social development. Dario Radley highlights…
Is it too late to bring Justin back?
I miss Justin Trudeau. Seriously. I desperately wanted him to lead the Liberals to an all-time election catastrophe. After ten years of running this country into the ground, the least…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Jill Lawrence discusses how the Trump regime's combination of corruption, greed and poor judgment is tearing the concept of the heroic tycoon to shreds.…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor write about the rise of end-times fascism - and its connection to the long-standing project among the wealthiest few…
On distinction
I've noted before that we shouldn't be too quick to assume that general electoral trends will overcome the strength of NDP incumbents in particular. But it certainly doesn't bode well…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Ali Bustamente rightly challenges Donald Trump's claim that people should be happy to endure a regime-induced recession as an economic purge by pointing out…
Mark Carney comes back to Edmonton, warms up with Oilers, infuriates Danielle Smith
It may just be a political stunt when a prime minister comes to the capital city of Alberta, puts on his skates and a jersey with his own name on…
Amid performative tantrum about ‘federal overreach,’ UCP tries to goad Mark Carney
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government is having another tantrum about federal environmental regulatory overreach, mostly imagined, by the former Trudeau Government. Yesterday’s meltdown came in the form of an announcement…
A Message For Amerika
Theo Moudakis captures Canadian pride and resoluteness here.As if to drive home the fact that we are not Amerika's vassal, Carney has made this decision:Prime Minister Mark Carney has invited…
Despite his opponents’ constant and often deceitful yammering, Justin Trudeau grew in office, and history will remember him well
“You can hear him. The man is teary-eyed.” I speak, of course, of Rick Bell, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s favourite political commentator. I hope Mr. Bell will forgive me for…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Jill Lawrence discusses how the U.S.' current kleptocracy was caused directly by the dangerous conflation of concentrated wealth with free speech. Luke Goldstein…
On open lanes
Mark Carney's ascent to the Liberal leadership has locked in a change in Canadian politics as compared to the period before Justin Trudeau's resignation announcement. But as the inevitable response…
The choice of fights
Needless to say, Canada's federal polling has taken a substantial turn over the past couple of months. And it shouldn't come as much surprise that the Lib griping that Jagmeet…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Greg Sargent writes about the utter villainy of Elon Musk's using the largest concentration of wealth on the planet as a tool to condemn…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Paul Krugman discusses how Donald Trump is eviscerating financial regulation and consumer protection just when it's most needed, while Henry Farrell points out how…
Who To Choose?
While I and many others consider the possibility of a Mark Carney-led Liberal Party, there are some obvious hurdles. While his appearance on The Daily Show, which I wrote about…
If Danielle Smith intends to defy a national consensus on how to respond to Donald Trump’s tariffs, she should call an election
If Alberta Premier Danielle Smith intends to defy an all-party, all-province, national consensus on how to respond to Donald Trump’s tariff threats, she should call a provincial election and get…
I Was Impressed
While you have probably heard of Mark Carney's appearance on The Daily Show, his performance with Jon Stewart both surprised and impressed me. He was loose, funny and, most unexpectedly,…