They are roaring down the highway, hundreds of them, heading for the heart of democracy. Some of them are vowing to bring down the government, and arrest Justin Trudeau. They call themselves the FreeDumb Convoy. But many decent Canadians are calling them the Karen Convoy. Read more »
Continue readingThe Decarie Report: Evil
Winston Churchill was a hero for just about everyone I knew that when I was a kid in world war Two. Alas! Never was there a hero who was less heroic. (And never were the Americans so evil. This is the story that never made the news.) Churchill was born
Continue readingScripturient: Morally and Ethically Bankrupt
It’s official: our council is morally and ethically bankrupt. You may have felt that from their past behaviour, but Monday night they confirmed it for everyone. There is not a shred of decency left to share among them. At the Jan. 24 meeting of council, they voted unanimously to revoke
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: ANALYSIS: Who’s Fuelling the Truckers Protesting Vaccine Mandates?
ANALYSIS Who’s Fuelling the Truckers Protesting Vaccine Mandates? When the convoy left BC Sunday a fundraiser had pulled in $2 million. A key organizer is tied to the Alberta separatist scene. By David Read more… The post ANALYSIS: Who’s Fuelling the Truckers Protesting Vaccine Mandates? first appeared on richardhughes.ca.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: January 25, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Four US attorneys general sue Google for ‘deceptive’ location tracking #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard recognizes that stoking sentiment about being “done with COVID” only increases the likelihood of further transmission and mutation, while Gail Bowen writes about the need to cultivate the strength to push back rather than succumbing to a sense of futility.
Continue readingThings Are Good: The Transformation of Paris from Traffic Jams to Quick Movement
Paris once had a reputation for horrible traffic, long queues of cars and taxing journeys via cars. When you have a problem stemming from one element sometimes it’s best to just get rid of it. That’s exactly what Paris is doing. By getting rid of the car traffic jams are
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: His Days Are Numbered
Erin O’Toole is a strange creature. He’s a leader who doesn’t act like a leader. Althia Raj writes: Watching Erin O’Toole obfuscate with reporters Monday — on whether he supports a truck convoy protesting vaccination rules — laid bare the Conservative leader’s principal challenge. He desperately wants to avoid his
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Covidiots: The Clay Feet Edition
Boomers like me often live in the past when it comes to musical idols: the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison. to name but three, were the gods at whose altars we worshipped. The problems with gods, however, is that they often have clay feet, something we would have been inclined
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading: gone to the woods, a riveting memoir by author gary paulsen
Gary Paulsen wrote some of the best children’s literature, most famously Hatchet. The tale of a boy who must survive on his own in the woods until he is at last rescued, Hatchet (published in 1986) is a go-to book for librarians facing the challenge of a reluctant reader, and many kids’
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : Levering Legault.
If there is one thing all politicians need to understand, it is that a margin of one or two per cent in opinion polls is meaningless. A strong breeze can blow that lead away the next day. One minute you are on top and the next, you are running for
Continue readingAlberta Politics: With ‘red alerts’ plaguing Alberta ambulance calls, health minister Jason Copping forms advisory committee to search for a fix
With EMS “red alerts” spiking in Alberta and both Calgary and Edmonton running out of ambulances to respond to emergencies roughly every 90 minutes, Health Minister Jason Copping yesterday announced he’s forming an advisory committee to study how to improve ambulance services in Alberta. To be fair, Mr. Copping also
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Chained
ChainedTo the wall of our roomYeah you chained me like a dog in our roomI thought that’s how it wasI thought that we were fineThen the day was night The post Chained first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: The Pyrocene
Human civilization depended on many things. We usually consider the development of agriculture as a pivotal factor. However, even before that, man had to master fire. Humankind, alone among all species, has evolved thanks in no small part to putting fire to work for us. Thousands of years later we
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: America Has Entered the Anocracy Zone
Barbara Walter has made a career out of studying civil war. The UC San Diego professor and author of “How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them,” claims that the United States has entered a new polity, “anocracy.” Anocracies are neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic; their citizens
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Omicron, a Blessing in Disguise?
To me it sounds counterintuitive but, hey, if it’s true it’s welcome. There’s a lot of talk about the Omicron variant of Covid-19 effecting a transition from pandemic into an endemic virus. It’s on the front page of both the New York Times and National Post. So, what’s the
Continue readingScripturient: Ecclestone’s New Endeavour
I see from emails he has been sending out that former councillor Cam “Sleepy” Ecclestone has decided to run in the upcoming provincial election as a member of the Consensus Party — an unknown, fringe party that hasn’t got the proverbial snowball’s hope in hell of getting a seat, especially
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: Widely condemned ‘Truckers For Freedom’ rally features Trudeau figure in a noose
Aside from needless greenhouse gas emissions, the only accomplishment of the so-called Truckers for Freedom convoy is further consolidation and recruitment of the far-right. Whatever your stance on vaccines or vaccine mandate, the growth of these far-right conspiracy movements and the inevitable violence that goes along with it should be
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: hashtag this, Neville Chamberlains
Now we know how we could have stopped the World Wars. Just, you know, hold up a piece of paper with a hashtag on it. That would’ve stopped Hitler, big time. Boom. War’s over. Oh, and make sure to look pretty serious. Don’t smile or anything. Bravely hold up that
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