I question why we allow fracking while there are significant knowledge gaps about safety. Authorities will not approve anyone to command flight controls of a loaded aircraft without certainty that person is proven capable of flying safely. In the production of BC natural gas, authorities have been unwilling to discover
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Your Art, My Art
The New York Times today came out with a list of “the 25 works of art made after 1970 that define the contemporary age, by anyone, anywhere.” What struck me as most significant was how little any of the works meant to me. Most of them I had never heard
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Slumbering cats.
Continue readingThe Decarie Report: The Decarie Report 2019-07-16 23:02:00
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/16/july-on-course-to-be-hottest-month-ever-say-climate-scientists Nah. It ain’t happenin’._________________________________________________________________
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: This Is What John Lewis Speaks So Feelingly Against
John Lewis spoke from the heart about this: And John Conway 111, husband of chief Trump defender Kelly Ann Conway, has this to say about her boss: Naivete, resentment and outright racism, roiled in a toxic mix, have given us a racist president. Telling four non-white members of Congress —
Continue readingThe Decarie Report: JJuly 16COMPUTER PROBLEMS…..
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uk-ambassador-us-iran-deal-1.5211399 This is pure greed to satisfy American oil billionaires. It’s also wildly illegal. And it’s bloody dangerous for all of us. But it’s popular among the Evangelical Christians – who arguably are not Christians but are both self-righteous and ignorant. And that’s the ones who have been passionate for
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: From The Heart
In light of the rampant racism that seems to be engulfing Western nations, John Lewis utters words we all need to hear. I know racism when I see it. I know racism when I feel it. And at the highest level of government there is no room for racism. It
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Sears and St. Germaine’s sentencing delayed yet again
Here we are with yet another chapter in what seems like the never-ending saga of the James Sears/LeRoy St. Germaine sentencing hearing. Those of you who have stuck with me through this mess will recall that Sears and St. Germaine of Your Ward News were convicted of wilfully promoting hatred
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Another Chilly Day.
The Tories might like to pretend global warming isn’t happening. Tell that to the folks in Nunavit. Not just Nunavit but Alert, Nunavit, the northernmost settlement in Canada. Today Nunavit is warmer than Victoria, B.C. Victoria is the warmest city in Canada – on average. Today isn’t average. “It’s really
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Let’s Talk About Social Cohesion
It’s what happens when political partisans place party ahead of the public. That’s our world today. We live in a deeply fractured society by no means on the scale of the American rift but heading in the same direction. In Canada where the support of fewer than two votes out
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: The Royals Who Wrote
Recently I’ve been in the process of de-cluttering my bookshelves of some of the hundreds of magazines I’ve bought overthe last few years. After keeping a few stacks of the moreuseful ones I’ve been selling/donating the rest. And while Ihave a good collection of books on monarchs I don’t have anyby
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer’s Big Ford Corruption Problem
I don't like to brag, but even before he became Premier I predicted that Doug Ford would lead his government into the swamp of corruption.There was just something about him that screamed "SCANDAL!!!"Or Con HOG!!!Read more »
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Save the Chateau? Buy it
Several lifetimes ago, when this writer was a Chief of Staff in Jean Chretien’s government – and when the Reform Party was a political force to be reckoned with – stuff started to fall out of the sky. Well, not the sky, actually. Centre Block’s Peace Tower, to be precise.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Liberals use ‘human rights’ to push coup in Venezuela
Photo by Joseph Morris The modern way to overthrow a government the capitalist world doesn’t like is by claiming to do it in the name of supporting ‘human rights’. This requires that the target be portrayed as a rights violator. As part of their effort to overthrow Nicolas Maduro’s government,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Alastair Campbell discusses how the latest group of right-wing demagogues has progressed from being post-truth to being post-shame. – IMFBlog examines how the perpetual slashing of corporate tax rates has eliminated needed public revenue – particularly in lower-income countries – without producing
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: He’s No Populist. He’s A Racist.
For nearly three years, the conventional wisdom has been that Donald Trump is a populist. His proclamations in the last three days prove that he’s no such thing. Paul Krugman writes: As everyone knows, on Sunday Donald Trump attacked four progressive members of Congress, saying that they should “go back
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: When voters can care less.
When we talk about the Ontario voters who now regret their urge to vote for the Ford conservatives last year, we are hardly talking about all. Many of these same people are proud to tell you that they will vote for Andrew ‘Chuckles’ Scheer’s conservatives this fall. The entire conservative
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Yet another annual message to the Calgary Stampede: real men don’t hurt animals for entertainment
There will be a “thorough review process surrounding chuckwagon safety” after the deaths of six horses during the 2019 Calgary Stampede, which is now mercifully over. Oh, please! There will be no meaningful review of the safety of the horses that are abused for fun at the Stampede, just as
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