This and that for your Sunday reading. – Bruce Arthur examines what the spread of the Omicron COVID variant figures to mean for Ontario. Rachel Emmanuel reports on the National Advisory Committee on Immunization’s recommendation that all Canadian adults receive COVID booster shots. Alex Putterman examines how the need is
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: KINSELLACAST 188: SEX with Mraz, WOKE with Lilley, POLITICS with Mills, Belanger – plus angry punk, maaaaan
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Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: The Fraser River Flood Plain
This is a photo I found on WikiCommons of the Fraser River flood plain in non-flood times. You can see how lush it is, and how the river meanders. No wonder people have wanted to farm and live near it. But you can also see the danger. When the big
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Yes, This has Global Impacts But Also The Crofton Mill!
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Continue readingNorthern Reflections: A Pivotal Moment
Sometimes opponents come together for a common cause. Robin Sears writes: In the spring of 1940, facing rapidly darkening clouds of war, Winston Churchill reached out quietly to Clement Attlee, a lifelong opponent, to join a new unity government along with some of his senior colleagues. Attlee’s agreement helped Britain
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Really?
You know, a bad faith Twitter report will only result in me starting up the blog again. You sure that’s what you would like because I will unleash hell on y’all.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : When Silence is Golden.
Not all politicians understand this. It is important to know what to say to the reporter who asks a question. It is also important to know when to say nothing. Some of the questions are naturals that fit into other programs and the politician comes out sounding knowledgeable and concerned.
Continue readingIn This Corner: Could it be that these are the future good old days?
This week, I propose to answer the age-old question: Were things better in the old days than they are today? First, let us discuss the term ‘old days’. For someone in their 80s, the ‘old days’ means something entirely different from someone in their 30s. For the sake of this
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian writes that even if the Omicron variant of COVID-19 doesn’t prove as dangerous as it appears, it should serve as a reminder as to why we should be careful to protect everybody’s health and safety. And Andrew Nikiforuk examines the evidence
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: The Stench of Politicization. Sotomayor Calls Out the Stacked Deck US Supreme Court.
Chief Justice John Roberts says he doesn’t want the “Roberts Court” to be remembered as a political institution. Too bad, John. That horse has left the barn. Just as Congress has been corrupted, transformed into a bought and sold institution where votes often end up with the highest bidder; and,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Let Those With Eyes See
This was posted by a FB friend. Its purpose, I hope, is self-evident. copied from another group I thought it was hilarious I refuse to put on winter tires because: This is my car, my choice, my freedom. The effectiveness of winter tires isn’t proven, unless it’s from studies conducted
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Wonderful Humiliation Of The Con Clown Pierre Poilievre
Pierre Poilievre has always been a thorn in the side of human decency. He is an ugly right wing extremist, a cruel bully, and a toxic Trudeau hater of the lowest order. Once he would say crazy things like "the root cause of terrorism is terrorism." Now he's the Con shadow
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Some Early Signs
We’re beginning to see some early signs of what OMICRON can do. Bruce Arthur writes: Omicron appears to be extraordinarily transmissible. Cases in South Africa are doubling every two to three days. [Dr. Peter] Juni, the scientific director of Ontario’s independent volunteer science table, says if first-wave COVID had a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Political Corruption – Sarah Chayes
No one likes talking about the corruption in OUR system, yet it is present and it is a festering problem that threatens the social fabric we all depend on. “Elections boil down to conflicts within the business community.” ( T. Ferguson) When you add together the Reagan deregulations, the
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : The Fool is in the Fine Print.
Now we know that the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is a waste of time. When I complained to the commission back at the time of the election, I found you had to be persistent. Their first reaction to complaints appeared to be a brush off. You had to let
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon tops independent bookshops’ weekly Alberta fiction bestseller list
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021. The lists are compiled by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta, and include sales at Audreys Books and Glass Bookshop in Edmonton. ALBERTA FICTION BESTSELLERS 1. Go
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Facts are not futile
At a time when rabid anti-vaxxers make noise beyond their numbers and conspiracy theorists roam the Web, this may appear to be a low point for trust in science. No-nothings oppose expert knowledge on subjects from evolution to GMOs to Covid to global warming, ad infinitum. But, among the rational
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
The Knocks feat. Powers – Classic
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Get Out, Stay Out
An open letter signed by upwards of a hundred Canadian academics calls for the RCMP to leave Wet’suwet’en lands and not come back. The Wet’suwet’en lands are sovereign territory. The band has never yielded its sovereignty and the Supreme Court said as much. This is a problem that’s been
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