Thus far, I have been singularly underwhelmed by the performance of federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh. First, although a well-established Ontario MPP and deputy leader of the provincial party, he showed an unseemly timidity in refusing to seek a federal byelection seat when he had the opportunity. That decision has
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Cowichan Conversations: Dear Leap Manifesto Critics: There Will Be No Jobs On A Dead Planet
The freak out response by many corporate media pundits and confused politicians opposed to the ‘Leap Manifesto’ is revealing and instructive. Their outrageous over reaction to a well thought out direction for survival in Read more…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Reader’s Response
In response to yesterday’s blog post, a reader had some well-considered commentary and observations that I am offering as today’s post. I hope you enjoy them. Here is what BM wrote:Many years ago in the late 1980s, I was asked to comment on the Brundt…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Seeing Is Believing
While on the official level there is much todo about the best way to keep the world’s temperatures from rising above 2 degrees Celsius, those who follow such things closely make it clear that that is likely a forlorn hope, given the feedback loops that…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Those Who Adapt
The Leap Manifesto appears to be tearing the new Democratic Party apart. But, Tom Walkom writes, it’s hardly a radical document. And a number of its recommendations are being advocated or implemented:Like Ottawa and virtually every provincial governme…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Leap Manifesto: Naomi Klein, Communism, and The Hollywood Hippys
CBC says: “This is a document that was written collectively,” [author Naomi] Klein said, flanked by national indigenous Anglican bishop Mark MacDonald and environmentalist and broadcaster David Suzuki. Actor Tantoo Cardinal, author Joseph Boyden and newly crowned Mrs.Universe Ashley Callingbull were also at the press conference. …which is good to
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