One Step Forward, Many Steps Back
Here we are, at the end of September 2020. It’s been over six months that we’ve been in this fight against COVID-19 and really there is no light at the…
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Speaker’s Corner
Ms Soapbox is working on a project that will keep her busy for the next couple of weeks. Rather than allow The Soapbox, a virtual Speakers’ Corner, to fall silent,…
Tesla’s future and Alberta’s future are intrinsically – though inversely – tied together
Tesla doesn’t make money building cars. They make a little money on energy generation. However, as Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times pointed out during our COVID summer,…
Democracy embarrassed
As a committed democrat, I would dearly love to be able to convince doubters of democracy’s superiority by pointing to its leaders. And in the past that has often been…
Dangers at Home
We live in times that few very fraught with danger, more so than usual. We’re seeing things happening on our TV screens, in the news and sometimes right in front…
America Pushed To Dictatorship
Republicans are believing Trump’s lies. They’re accepting dictatorship.
Failing to Plan
There have been many things about the last few weeks in our COVID-19 world have been difficult. We’re seeing cases rise across the country, we’re starting to see some schools…
Talking Throne Speech 2020 with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison & Lindsay Maskell for a special Wednesday “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the Speech from the…
Alberta RCMP Protecting Racists
#ACAB Mounties saying they're protecting hate speech and violent racists because those voices matter as much as anyone else. That's a load of BS. https://t.co/WzsTMKYaGj — Saskboy says #BlackLivesMatter (@saskboy)…
“Something Old, Something New….”
Well this afternoon brought us a moment that Canadian politicos have been looking ahead to for a month now. Governor General Julie Payette, under a cloud of scandal of her…
Shenanigans in the Green Leadership Race
With the Throne Speech coming down this afternoon, it makes sense that most of the attention of the Canadian political scene is fixed on Ottawa today. But in the past…
Populism, Elitism & Propaganda: The Continuing Failure of Liberals, Progressives & the Left
As I have been saying: accepting the elitist derogatory and vilifying use of the term populism as a synonym for all that is evil in the world is playing into…
Talking the Upcoming Throne Speech with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison & Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the upcoming Speech from the Throne,…
Sask Party Calls The Cops
Instead of meeting with healthcare workers who showed up at the Saskatoon Cabinet Office today to talk about some of their concerns, the Premier and Minister of Labour snuck out…
WikiLeaks: Show Trial Ending Investigative Journalism
Julian Assange's extradition hearings are frankly terrifying, and if you care about the free press, you should be worried, irrespective of whether you like Assange or Wikileaks. As the old…
Off to the Polls on the West Coast
There have been lots of rumours around potential elections milling around the media. That was the case in New Brunswick and in that case, it brought an early election. There…
Reconciliation Failing in Nova Scotia
Being an Indigenous person living in Canada can be a very frustrating experience at times. It can be hard enough when you have to deal with the history of this…
Big Financial Enforcement Failure Leak
BREAKING: The BBC has documents showing that big banks have knowingly laundered $2 TRILLION for organized criminals & dirty billionaires. Ordinary citizens & democratic institutions don’t stand a chance in…
Scientific American chooses Biden
Sometimes you just have to take a stand. Enough is enough. Throughout its long history, the magazine Scientific American has kept to science and left politics to the politicians. No…
Big Exodus from Big Tech
Time for the exodus to begin in earnest from the now confirmed to be fascist and deeply Orwellian Big Tech giants. At the least, we need to begin the migration…