Fake News vs Traditional Media
This article by the CBC is excellent. It walks through a number of scenarios, definitions and instructions on how to spot ‘fake news’. Just one problem: they forgot to point…
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Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Nick Falvo writes that Alberta would be far better served implementing a tax system more in line with the rest of Canada’s provinces…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Susie Neilson discusses the growing health gap between the rich and the rest of the population in the U.S. And Ricardo Tranjan…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood offers an electoral primer for voters who want to avert a climate breakdown in this fall’s federal election. And Paul…
Speaking The Truth
CBC and other media need to recognize the following as true if we’re going to advance as a society. It’s likely to make them, and you, uncomfortable. Growth isn’t automatic…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The NDP has released its Power to Change climate plan, including steps to create green jobs and give effect to Indigenous rights while…
Infuriating Police Escalation
Cops relationship with black people explained in 4 seconds. pic.twitter.com/oHrch32q2t — Dieghoe (@diegheaux) May 24, 2019 Officers should have to watch this, and learn how easily they can serve a…
What should we make of the post-election Edmonton Journal editorial urging the UCP to keep the carbon tax?
I suppose we should never attribute to mischief what can be explained by incompetence, but what else are we to make of the Edmonton Journal’s earnest editorial yesterday urging Alberta…
WikiLeaks: US Shows Hand
As many journalists and others have been saying for a decade, the US was seeking Assange to charge him with an anti-Constitutional law that threatens investigative journalists around the world.…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Susan Bradley reports on Dave Phillips’ observations as to how Atlantic Canada is already facing the effects of a climate breakdown. Cameron Brick…
Keep your eyes on the story of Jason Kenney’s ‘War Room’ – it’s going to be a boondoggle!
The discovery last week Postmedia was trying to cash in on Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s promised $30-million anti-environmental “war room” at the same time it has its hand out to…
Postmedia bid for role in UCP ‘war room’ illustrates the folly of Trudeau’s lifeline for failing newspapers
Connect the dots, Mr. Prime Minister! That newspaper industry bailout package you’re foolishly planning in the name of preserving democracy is principally designed to keep a corporation afloat that will…
Leader-Post Is “Controversial”
Controversial is a code word for “racist”. That’s according to multiple tweets by the Leader-Post in Regina, Saskatchewan. Reading into the linked article, there was a passage from Wikipedia, not…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kurtis Alexander points out how climate change is exacerbating the gap between wealthy and poor countries. Megan Mayhew Bergman highlights the importance…
Wikileaks: Assange Arrested in London
Assange has been a political prisoner for most of a decade and he still is one today, not a criminal hacker. Note that Ecuador revoked asylum, nationality 24h after we…
Jody Wilson-Raybould – Ah, Buh-Bye.
Jody Wilson surreptitiously recorded a member of the Cabinet, Michael Wernick – and possibly has recorded others according to a Tweet sent out by Warren Kinsella. Take what you will…
My Social Media Journey (And What Happens Next)
10,000 followers? What the heck? I volunteered for my first political campaign in 1997 for Liberal Diane Marleau in Sudbury, I knocked on doors, and delivered lawn signs. That started…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jake Bittle writes about rural homelessness as a seldom-discussed issue which calls out for a strong policy response to ensure the right…
Elizabeth May at UofR
2 weeks ago Elizabeth May was in Regina at the University and gave the following speech. In it she covered everything from our failed public transportation systems, to SNC-Lavalin’s punishment…
The only question I have left…
The only question I have left… “Because I knew my minister was not comfortable with us continuing those conversations. I felt I should test with her office before I shared…