The world is not just in crisis. Humans as a species are in crisis. But if you see fire and are fine with calling it “fire season,” and you see torrential hurricanes and flooding in places hitherto relatively immune, and are fine with calling it “volatile weather,” and you see melting glaciers and icecaps and are fine with calling it “cyclical” on a presumably-geological scale you know nothing about — then you are ingesting too much corporate media propaganda designed …
Category: Short Rants
Woody Guthrie and Left Settler-Colonialism Woody Guthrie died in late-1967, a few months after I was born. Many people understand him to be one of the great “American” (yes, the quotes are deliberate) folk singers and song-writers, …
On July 1st, 2021 the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) — which represents some 650 professional historians across the country — released a statement saying that Canada’s “long history of violence and dispossession” directed at indigenous peoples …
Tha Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) followed the corporate media newswire framing for its headline on May 11, 2021: Israelis are “killed” with the active voice; Palestinians “die” with the passive voice. Even the headlines are colonial. …
Hard to believe 20 years has passed since this little festival in Quebec City against the FTAA. We had a fairly large contingent of Winnipeggers, lots of folks from the Mondragon and G7 Welcoming Committee collectives, …
I’ve heard a lot of Canadians get indignant over the years about charges that this has always been, and continues to be, a fundamentally racist and colonial society. They were indignant when Maclean’s published a piece …
Musings in the wake of Joseph Boyden’s fall from grace, 2016. One of the things I remember most from my first creative writing class with David Arnason at the U of Manitoba (way back in 1985-86) …