What happens when a town tries to replace public transit with Uber? In 2017, the Toronto exurb of Innisfil, Ontario, took a chance on subsidizing rides instead of running a traditional bus service, offering riders a flat fare or discounts through the ride-hailing app. The plan worked, perhaps a littleContinue Reading
Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet. Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. He is 63. ‘The nurse notedContinue Reading
Pamela Anderson on the arrest of Julian Assange yesterday, “How could you Equador? (Because he exposed you.) How could UK? Of course–you are America’s bitch and you need a diversion from your idiotic Brexit bullshit.” J.A. surely knew this day was coming, it was not a question of if butContinue Reading
“In Canada, the evidence is that increasingly a larger fraction of income to corporations is related to excessive profits. Lower tax rates encourage firms to engage in more excessive profit seeking. You have greater incentives to create more monopoly power, to lobby (the government), because you get to keep aContinue Reading
There is a new documentary produced by the NFB that follows the life and times of the famous Quebecois singer and songwriter Pauline Julien. She was partnered with poet Gerald Godin who became a Quebec MLA. The piece frames Julien as the muse of the soverignists during the buildup toContinue Reading
(It’s Thursday night and Beto O’Rourke is trying to manage a couple of life-altering and possibly world-historical political events while also driving his family home from a Mexican restaurant. Donald Trump will touch down in O’Rourke’s hometown of El Paso in four days to hold a rally and whip upContinue Reading
This is what’s keeping me up at night………Continue Reading
Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is an OG who is handling the closing chapter very, very, very badly. His Ex hands over some folded dirty linen in an interview … (To the accusation that the wedding was held at Gracie Mansion because Judith said that she wanted to “fuck over” Donna forContinue Reading
Global warming is posing a challenge for capitalism, one which it is unable to address unless alternative fuel sources become more lucarative than fossile. Scientists are looking into the earths past to precisely map out what we can expect as the planet heats up. (Huber said the stratocumulus tipping pointContinue Reading
Over a short span of three days this week I got e-mails from diffrent people that I have edited and used to form this post. The first message asked me what Bernie Sanders was going to do for working class Americans. The second message contained a long list of online video’s addressing theContinue Reading