Rethinking Education
Chomsky is right: in the Western world, what we call our “education” system, is in practice a system of indoctrination. This is its primary result, regardless of good intentions or…
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Oh, Canada
Loyal subjects: that is what we have been trained to be – first to the British Empire, then to the American Empire, and now, to Beijing and the global coporate…
Magpie Brûlé Podcast Season 3 Episode 1 – Reconciliation and Closure
After some time away, the Magpie Brûlé is back with a new season. In this episode, I go into the news of the past week from Kamloops, the reaction nation…
Hinting Towards #ELXN44
For months now media, pundits and many Canadians have been speculating about when the next Federal Election may come. Some thought it would have come already, pinning their bets on…
Graduating to a New Level of Confusion
Yesterday in Ontario we got some big news about the state of our fight against COVID and one part in particular; schools. Schools in most of the province have been…
Leashing the corporations with the Biden tax
There was a period following WWII when we approached utopia. Well, OK, maybe that’s overstating it, but we had created probably the finest society, in terms of the economic welfare…
Cost Of A Child’s Coffin In Canada
I used to know how much a child’s casket cost because we had to fund raise so often for burials. https://t.co/OTh4zStsLy — Cindy Blackstock (@cblackst) June 1, 2021 “There Are…
The Moment for Action
It’s been almost a week since news broke in the media of the discovery of the remains of 215 children in an unmark, mass grave on the grounds of the…
The Curious Case of the Magna Carta and the Covidiot Footballer
This has been a hard week mentally and emotionally for a lot of us, and I have to admit that it’s wearing on me. If you’ve heard some of my…
Covid Journal, June 2, 2021
The news has been a little overwhelming for me in the last few days. Residential schools, MMIWG issues and the 100th anniversary of the bombing of Black Wall Street in…
Plague Update: Vaccinations And Premature[?] ReOpenings Proceeding
A new visual to show Saskatchewan's vaccination disparity by gender. Since data is released weekly I've stacked each week's release on top of the other to show the accumulation. Notice…
Talking Ontario’s New Chief Medical Officer of Health with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Tim Powers for “Political Heat” panel. We talked the Ford Governments naming of a new Chief…
Talking Kamloops Residential School Discovery on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Lisa Kirbie. We discussed the news of the discovery of remains…
“Isn’t Who We Are”
A Radio Ad Running in Saskatchewan Says Residential School Trauma Is a Myth, & I'm Pretty Sure No One's Noticed, Nevermind Concerned? https://t.co/rR813u866c — Tammy Robert (@tammyrobert) September 23, 2018…
Land Reform and The Birth of A Revolution
Half of the world’s people live in the countryside. Three quarters of the people living in poverty live in the countryside. Two-thirds of the income of the rural poor comes…
The world’s super censor brings John Cena to his knees
Are you familiar with John Cena? If not, good for you; he’s not really worth knowing about. So for the uninitiated, John Cena is a former professional wrestler. According to…
What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast – Energy and C-12
On Friday I was happy to record the latest episode of Bluesky Strategy Group’s “What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast” with my colleagues Neil Brodie and Alyson Fair. We…
Libertarian Socialism & The Rebirth of Freedom & Democracy
What is libertarian socialism, and why should we be interested? Libertarian socialism is a long term goal, I would say, agreeing with Chomsky, who is the most prominent libertarian socialist…
Hundreds of Kids Found Dead In Unmarked Graves
A normal country would declare several days of mourning after a mass grave of children was discovered. — Nora Loreto (@NoLore) May 29, 2021 Canada is a normal settler-colonial country…
Big Oil’s bad week
As I have said elsewhere, I don’t do a lot of finger-pointing at oil companies when placing the blame for global warming. They produce the oil and gas because we…