Everyone must 1) read this 2) buy the book thewalrus.ca/the-stress-o...

Everyone must 1) read this 2) buy the book thewalrus.ca/the-stress-o...

So sad that Canada lost one of its great statesmen. I had the privilege of being on the receiving end when Stephen Lewis was pressuring Canada to do more to fight the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Always on the left side of issues and the right side of history. We shall miss his moral leadership.

39 books to add to your must reads including Jordan Himelfarb’s Interregnum

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39 books to add to your must reads including Jordan Himelfarb’s Interregnum

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Wtf www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Lloyd Axworthy: Canada once rejected America’s aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it By endorsing preventive strikes on Iran during ongoing diplomacy, and after Washington itself shredded the previous agreement, we are embracing the very doctrine we used to reject, writes Lloyd Axwort...

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Justin Ling: Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have made a dangerous gamble in Iran. Why is Mark Carney cheering them on? We should cheer when the brutal Iranian regime falls, whenever that may come to pass. But we should condemn this chaotic, risky violence and all the death that comes with it.

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Justin Ling: Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance — and Trump’s response to it — gave the world an important reminder The Puerto Rican rapper's celebration of the Americas on Sunday was a masterclass in cultural soft power.

Bad bunny www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Treason www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Elizabeth Renzetti: If courage is viral, we should all be infected with the spirit of Minneapolis. Here’s why People from every corner of society have refused to let the killing of Renee Good by ICE deter them from protecting the vulnerable

If courage is viral www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

“If we don’t resist today, the damage will be far greater tomorrow.”www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/...

The Power of the Powerless Whatever one thinks of PM Mark Carney’s Davos speech, it served to resurface Vaclav Havel’s Power of the Powerless just when we most need reminding of the power of collective action whenever people…

People often prefer the lie they live in to a future they cannot imagine. The first step
in unleashing the imagination is to step outside the lie. afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/t...

Will, imagination, courage, solidarity jacobin.com/2026/01/minn...

Will, imagination, courage, solidarity jacobin.com/2026/01/minn...

Here’s an idea for a nation building project open.substack.com/pub/paulstew...

Here’s an idea for a nation building project open.substack.com/pub/paulstew...

This is a time for moral clarity and moral leadership. Canada must stand up to Trump’s fascist imperialist regime www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

“The Arctic is our front line.” Lloyd Axworthy substack.com/@alexhimelfa...

“The Arctic is our front line.” Lloyd Axworthy substack.com/@alexhimelfa...

This is a time for moral clarity and moral leadership. Canada must stand up to Trump’s fascist imperialist regime www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Will watch with interest.

Ani DiFranco on Love, Fear & Finding Your Voice in a Divided World YouTube video by Jonathan Fields | Good Life Project®

"Paying taxes is [how] we do things we can't do well or at all, alone." yes. Was just listening to interview w @anidifrancomusic.bsky.social where she shares that perspective (about 13 min in) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU6S...

Justin Ling: In Venezuela, Trump’s Donroe Doctrine is now in action. Canada can’t sit on its hands Canada now has a role to play in making sure that Venezuela transitions back to democracy — not into an American client state, writes Justin Ling.

Canada’s mealy mouthed response to the Venezuela crisis is not nearly good enough - www.thestar.com/opinion/star... in

Am I optimistic and if so how is that even possible? At the end of a recent interview I was asked how is it possible, given all the crises I talk about and all the social discord, that I still claim to be optimistic. I fumbled the answer, can’t…

Am I optimistic and if so how is that even possible? afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/a...

There is an Alternative: A Better Path to a Better Future We won’t build a less dependent, more just, sustainable, and resilient Canada following the same path that got us here. We need a new map.  Here is a compendium of articles flowing out of the…

There is an alternative afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...

Why We Hate Taxes – And Why We Shouldn’t A somewhat shorter version first appeared in Alberta Views January/February 2015 as Taxes: a Small Price to Pay for Civilization. About a year ago, my son Jordan, some friends and colleagues and I …

We need to change the conversation on taxes. They are how we pay fir the things we do together that we could not do at all or as well alone. Tax policy is also a test of just how much inequality we are prepared to tolerate. And tax cuts are not free. afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2015/01/03/w...

Who will own what we build? Who will benefit? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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