Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Gary Younge writes about the need to respond to a bleak reality with the dedication to imagine and create something better. And…
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Murray Sinclair has tried for years to shock Canada into confronting colonialism. He’s not done yet
ILLUSTRATION BY AGATA NOWICKA Originally published by the Globe and Mail By GEOFFREY YORK PUBLISHED DECEMBER 23, 2019 After leading landmark inquiries on racism in Manitoba, residential schools and…
Make Peace an Election Issue
Aug. 6, 2019: Winnipeggers gather in the shadow of the Manitoba Legislative Building to commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945. Lanterns for…
Environmental destruction—more than a war crime?
The UN’s International Law Commission currently has on its agenda an item concerned with protecting the environment in times of war. The commission has drawn up 28 draft principles, the…
Guns – What Are They Good For
War The Wikipedia section on the history of guns makes it clear that the history of guns and war are clearly intertwined, guns being developed primarily as a means to…
Examination of Marc Lemire: Part XIII
Between 2008 and 2013, ARC published a series of articles detailing Mar Lemire's racist past and his involvement with the Heritage Front. I compiled all of the links on this…
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…
Turd Blossom Stinks Up Canada
Preston Manning is a joke. Karl Rove is a war criminal. Imagine living in a world based on the ethical standard of Rove. Could be that we are there now.…
Two Minutes on Novermber 11th
Today is the 100th anniversary of the end of hostilities in the Great War. Canadians will mark this day as they have for the last century with two minutes* of…
Bolsheviki by David Fennario
Read this play last night – brilliant, classic Fennario. Having grown up in the Verdun/Point area his characters tend to send shivers down my spine in their uncanny familiarity and…
Worst President Possible
Who puts children in cages?Not men assured living wages.A #FightforFifteen?A quaint little dream,While American Dreams shrink in stages.#WhereAreTheChildren?#ChildrenConcentrationCamps.This started when?President Orange Gramps.* *Obama and Bush share some blame. — John…
Have we finally learned how to stop worrying and love The Bomb?
Slim Pickens on the set of Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. Last year, the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to abolish nuclear weapons.…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Scott Gilmore discusses how Canada is actually backsliding in some crucial development goals. And Colin Gordon writes about the inequality growing on…
Reporter Was Right Before
When someone is correct multiple times about major events, it’s worth hearing what they have to say about the latest unfolding. Trump’s Presidency is crumbling, and if Americans wake up,…
Winnipeg Kurdish Solidarity
Winnipeg, Jan. 23, 2018: The local Kurdish community rallied at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in solidarity with Kurds under Turkish attack in Afrin, Syria. Photo: Paul S. Graham…
Will Trump Sue Bannon? Don’t Hold Your Breath.
It would be a real Punch & Judy show. Trump wailing away on his former campaign CEO and chief political strategist, using a confidentiality agreement to bludgeon both Bannon and…
War is a Terrible Back-Up Plan
Noam Chomsky is certain that the only two things we should be worried about right now are climate change and nuclear war. Adam Ellick and Jonah Kessel’s article in the…
Remembering those who served
It’s at this time of the year, as we approach Remembrance Day, that I think most about my family, especially those who have died. I wish I had known when…