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Anti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Steven Myatt: Leegal Exspirt (Part II)

Mar

10

2018

The ARC Collective has always appreciated and enjoyed the fan mail the blog receives from the readers, and the most recent article on Steven Alexander Foil Eschew Confound Stonewall Gregory Myatt have certainly resulted in quite a number of lovely messages. These are just a few of them: They seem nice…. though I should add ...

In-Sights: Shilling for dollars

Mar

9

2018

Updated from June 2016. In an earlier article, I made reference to BC Legislative Press Gallery members producing commissioned articles. These are public relations pieces intended to serve particular needs of government or entities doing business with government. It is the kind of output that will ultimately be replaced by automated journalism. Mike Smyth’s June ...

Accidental Deliberations: Musical interlude

Mar

9

2018

John O’Callaghan w/ Timmy & Tommy – Talk To Me

Accidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links

Mar

9

2018

Assorted content to end your week. – May Boeve and Michael Brune comment on the danger that political- and court-based attacks on U.S. unions could substantially weaken the progressive movement as a whole. But Jane McAlevey writes that West Virginia’s successful teachers’ strike may provide an important reminder that the power of collective action can ...

Warren Kinsella: Kinsellacast: the Spin Twins™ on tomorrow’s PC vote!

Mar

9

2018

Warren Kinsella: KINSELLA CAST #3: THE PC LEADERSHIP RACE!

Mar

9

2018

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daveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Daveberta joins the Alberta Podcast Network

Mar

9

2018

We are excited to announce that The Daveberta Podcast has joined the growing roster of great podcasts in the Alberta Podcast Network. Powered by ATB Financial, the Network includes more than 30 Alberta-based podcasts covering a wide-range of topics. The Daveberta Podcast joins The Broadcast and the Highlevel Showdown in bolstering the Network’s contingent of politics podcasts. Subscribe ...

Montreal Simon: Justin Trudeau and the Taming of Donald Trump

Mar

9

2018

Justin Trudeau has always known how to handle Donald Trump better than any other world leader, with the possible exception of Vladimir Putin.He knows how to use his charm to disarm him. He knows how to avoid the grip of a bully.He knows how to return the favour, and squeeze Trump's tiny hands like a rubber ball. ...

Warren Kinsella: This is brutal. Just brutal.

Mar

9

2018

And the photo. Haven’t seen that before. Link here.

Politics and its Discontents: The Neoliberal Creep – Part 2

Mar

9

2018

While Part 1 dealt with the neoliberal agenda influencing Bill Morneau’s retraction of his pharmacare promise, today’s post deals with that same influence, this time on Canada’s ‘evolving’ position on foreign aid. International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says she wants to use the new $2 billion in extra aid dollars in the new budget to ...

Northern Reflections: Wile E. Coyote

Mar

9

2018

Apparently, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un are going to talk to each other. The news should be viewed in the light of an opinion from a former C.I.A. analyst. David Ignatius writes in the Washington Post: “Beep beep” was the subject line of an email message I received a few weeks ago from former ...

THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: WHEN OUR LOVED ONE GETS BETTER AND WE GET WORSE

Mar

9

2018

This week, an online article caught my eye. It was a report on research into patients with heart disease who had undergone surgery to implant called a Ventricular Assist Device, or LVAD. Turns out that a few weeks after surgery, the patients felt much better, but their caregivers felt worse. The stress and worry about ...

The Progressive Economics Forum: How to Measure and Monitor Poverty? LIM vs LICO vs MBM.

Mar

9

2018

The federal government has promised to launch a Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy in the coming weeks or months on the basis of now completed consultations with Canadians and the still ongoing deliberations of an advisory committee. As part of this process, there has been discussion about which poverty or low income measure or measures should ...

Warren Kinsella: In which I praise Trudeau and Trump

Mar

9

2018

Cartoon @ the amazing de Adder. Historic. I have been critical of Justin Trudeau for (a) sucking up to Donald Trump and (b) getting nothing in return. But credit where credit’s due: yesterday, Trudeau got a temporary exemption from Trump’s insane steel and aluminum tariffs. But. The key word there is “temporary.” As I say ...

Warren Kinsella: Not a coincidence

Mar

9

2018

The #ONPCs are picking a leader on the same day we lose time. Discuss. #onpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 9, 2018

Babel-on-the-Bay: The Ontario PCs in Wonderland.

Mar

9

2018

Vic Fedeli is hardly the Alice in Wonderland who foolishly headed down the rabbit hole. Yet it was Interim conservative leader Fedeli who first let on that Patrick Brown might not have been telling the whole truth about party memberships. And with three of the four candidates still in the running asking about “tainted” memberships, ...

Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Early Baroque Interlude – Claudio Monteverdi – Duo Seraphim

Mar

9

2018

History and context Monteverdi’s Marian Vespers of 1610 was his first sacred work after his first publication twenty-eight years prior, and stands out for its assimilation of both old and new styles, although it cannot be specifically classified as prima pratica or seconda pratica, per se. The Vespers were published in July 1610, in combination ...

Alberta Politics: Alberta’s NDP borrowed more than export-cut threats from Peter Lougheed for yesterday’s Throne Speech

Mar

9

2018

PHOTOS: Premier Rachel Notley speaks with well wishers in the Alberta Legislature Rotunda yesterday after her government’s Speech from the Throne was read by Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell. Below: Finance Minister Joe Ceci, Ms. Mitchell and Premier Peter Lougheed, back in the day. (Mitchell and Lougheed photos: Government of Alberta.) Understandably given the nature of ...

The Disaffected Lib: There’s a Difference, Rachel. A Huge Difference.

Mar

9

2018

In British Columbia, First Nations, environmentalists and a big segment of the general public are gearing up for a war against a dangerous and potentially catastrophic product, diluted bitumen also known as dilbit. We’re at war against something, something vile and highly destructive. In Alberta, their premier warns that she’s gearing up for war, war ...

The Decarie Report: March 8: A Bad, Bad day.

Mar

8

2018

I am not a happy camper. I had been writing this blog for three hours. And it just disappeared for the third time this has happened in recent weeks. That includes a long prologue whose topic I have now forgotten. While I am in this bad mood, I shall return to a topic that always ...

In-Sights: Republican’s genius strategy

Mar

8

2018

History Professor Alfred McCoy produced The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia in 1972. The CIA interfered with the book’s publication but its condemnation of American complicity in the drug trade is accepted as accurate and reliable. Dr. McCoy appeared with Jeremy Scahill on the March 7 edition of Intercepted Podcast. I found their wide ranging ...

Warren Kinsella: Next week at U of A and U of C’s Faculties of Law!

Mar

8

2018

Join us on March 15 for the 2018 Merv Leitch, QC Memorial Lecture with @kinsellawarren, LLB'87! pic.twitter.com/FCX8jGYyyw — UCalgary Law (@UCalgaryLaw) March 8, 2018

DeSmogBlog: Violence Against the Land Begets Violence Against Women

Mar

8

2018

By Melina Laboucan-Massimo, David Suzuki Foundation Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Fellow. This piece originally appeared on the David Suzuki Foundation website. On International Women’s Day, I doubt industrial projects like Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline are top of mind for most. But there is a direct link between natural resource extraction and violence against ...

The Disaffected Lib: I’ve Got an Idea to Rescue Justin From His Slump

Mar

8

2018

Unfair or not, Justin Trudeau has taken a hit in the public’s mind over his pretty clumsy trip to India. With JT et famille sporting an elaborate wardrobe of Bollywood’s best fashions, the Indian press took the piss out of him pretty relentlessly. The local scribblers piled on. Now Trudeau’s approval numbers have dropped to ...

Warren Kinsella: It’s the Official Daisy Group #ONPCldr #PCPOldr Pool™️!

Mar

8

2018