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David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: On Milton Acorn, on his birthday, Canada’s...

The Silver Dollar Room at the Waverly Hotel, where Milton Acorn lived on Spadina Avenue in Toronto. Below: Milton Acorn (drawing found on the Internet). Today was the birthday of Milton Acorn, the...

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Alberta Diary: Remember the reason for the season: It’s time to put Krampus...

Jiggers, look busy, it’s Krampus! And why is this mom giving him the thumbs up, I wonder? Below: Santa Claus, the God of Coca-Cola; Che Guevara; and Jesus Christ. Never mind Jesus Christ! It’s time to...

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Alberta Politics: Is a Pink Revolution beginning in America? This genie will...

PHOTOS: A Pink Revolution? Protesters in Washington yesterday (Washington Post photo). Below: U.S. President Donald Trump, the demonstration yesterday in Edmonton and CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va....

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Alberta Politics: Reflections on Easter Sunday, 2018: There really is a war...

PHOTOS: Easter Sunday shoppers at West Edmonton Mall. Is nothing sacred? Well, actually, something is: The Almighty Market, god of Canada’s state religion. Below: A brass idol to the Market God in New...

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Alberta Politics: On Milton Acorn, on his birthday, Canada’s People’s Poet

Today was the birthday of Milton Acorn, the People’s Poet, who lived rough, and died before he was eligible for the Old Age Security, even under the old rules. For those of you who have missed him...

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Alberta Politics: Leo Panitch, intellectual pillar of the Canadian left, dead...

Leo Victor Panitch, one of the intellectual pillars of the Canadian left and a leading scholar of the global depredations of neoliberalism, died Saturday from COVID-19. He was 75. Born into a working...

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