Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. We name heatwaves now It’s July, which means it’s getting pretty hot in the Mediterranean. Sorry, “getting pretty hot” is old-fashioned talk. What I …
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The 20 countries meeting in Vancouver to discuss North Korea’s nuclear program pledged to reinforce sanctions and tighten the noose around leader Kim Jung-un [Xinhua]
China and Russia have questioned the validity of a summit on North Korea’s nuclear program hosted in the Canadian city of Vancouver because it did not adequately represent the world community.
The meeting, which was organized by Canada and the United States and attended by 18 other nations, did not include China or Russia.
Any jackass can knock down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one. LBJ
God Bless Vancouver?
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Late last winter at Vancouver’s Maritime Labour Centre, city councillor Geoff Meggs spoke at the launch of a regional union-backed social justice organization called the Metro Vancouver Alliance. Meggs is a long-time anchor of the British Columbia labour movement. In the 1980s, he was the editor of the fishers’ union newspaper and the personal editor for the legendary Canadian communist Ben Swankey. In the ’90s, he was a high-level adviser in the B.C. NDP government.
