Michael Laxer
Fun and games in NDP land as Sask party ghosts Singh & Singh still pretends no coalition with Libs
Just when you think the ongoing farce that is the NDP in Canada could not possibly get anymore laughable, news comes that the...
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Michael Laxer
- Jul 18
- 2 min
Joe Rogan is a joke but the punchline is a dangerous one
In an impossibly stupid moment that set Twitter on fire and that energized the legions of right wing fanatics that have been bred of...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 23
- 2 min
Could the federal NDP and its apologists please stop with the bullshit
At what point will the federal NDP and its apologists admit what everyone else can see: the NDP has entered into a de facto coalition...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 24
- 7 min
Dull and duller: The NDP's totally predictable capitulation to the Liberals
It has been interesting to watch the reaction to the coalitionesque agreement reached between the Liberals and the NDP on March 22 over...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 19
- 3 min
Open letter & petition call on Trudeau gov't to "de-escalate the conflict between Russia and NATO"
The Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and a number of other organizations have released an open letter and launched a petition in...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 1
- 6 min
2021: The year in review on The Left Chapter
2021 is done and what a year it was. Along the way we saw momentous victories for the left in Kerala, Chile, Peru, Honduras and...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 30, 2021
- 2 min
Canada leads G20 in financing fossil fuels but is still fighting First Nations in court
It is hard to get one's mind around the staggering hypocrisy and performative bullshit of our federal Liberal government and its utterly...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 15, 2021
- 2 min
Trudeau echoes Trump in equating "far-left" and far-right
It is utterly ridiculous to claim, as Trudeau did, that the "far-left" spreads fear, hate and white supremacy. Remember when former US...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 6, 2021
- 2 min
"Stop fighting First Nation children in court": Ontario Nurses' Association email action campaign
Parliament buildings lit up on the eve of the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, September 29 -- photo via Twitter The...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 21, 2021
- 4 min
It’s déjà vu all over again
After an election that many called "unnecessary" it ends up having been much ado about nothing with the parties treading water and voters...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 15, 2021
- 7 min
Liberal rebound: Election roundup #3
The Left Chapter's third and final election roundup. As the grand farce that is the 2021 federal election in Canada enters the...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 10, 2021
- 8 min
No Majority For You! And Other Kvetching On The 2021 Canadian Election Farce
As the farce that is Canada's election heads into the homestretch, Gabriel Haythornthwaite takes an incisive, caustic look at the...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 7, 2021
- 6 min
O'Toole flipflopping to a (small) lead: Election roundup #2
The Left Chapter's second election roundup. As the first three weeks of the grand farce that is the 2021 federal election in Canada have...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 30, 2021
- 5 min
Trudeau stumbles out of the gate: Election roundup #1
The Left Chapter's first election roundup. Image via twitter. As the first two weeks of the grand farce that is the 2021 federal election...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 18, 2021
- 2 min
NDP tries to spin its way out of CEWS support
Image via twitter Have you heard the news? Suddenly the NDP is concerned about the unbelievable, scandalous fiasco that is the Canada...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 30, 2021
- 2 min
The federal NDP's "free tuition" pledge is much ado about literally nothing
Singh announces student "debt relief" plan, March 20, 2021 - video screenshot I will give Jagmeet Singh credit for one thing: He has...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 25, 2021
- 3 min
Argentina leaves the increasingly farcical Lima Group
While the Canadian government seems to remain committed to this imperial project, one can only hope its days are numbered. It has been a...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 9, 2021
- 3 min
Anti-choice groups got the government's CEWS wage subsidy
In addition to all the other issues with the CEWS, it turns out that extremist anti-choice groups like the Canadian Centre for...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 3, 2021
- 6 min
2020: The year in review on The Left Chapter
It is hard to overstate how momentous a year 2020 was. Among so many other events, it was the year of the Black Lives Matter uprisings,...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 23, 2020
- 5 min
Snapshots from the pandemic class war in Canada
As the year ends the rich are not only getting richer, they are doing so so brazenly at the expense of everyone else that they obviously...