I would like to acknowledge the passing of former Progressive Blogger affiliate Fern Hill. Her former blog affiliate on here would be Birth Pangs – you can still find some of her old posts that we archived. It shows the titles and a summary.. but it won’t take you to
Continue readingThe Decarie Report: The Decarie Report 2021-09-25 22:43:00
As I watched the election results, I gave up hope. Where were Canadian brains? Just months ago, Trudeau was on the BC border, assuring American politicans and people that Canada would keep BC (and other provinces) open for American oil transportation. That’s, among other things, a BC that is burning
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Karl Nerenberg notes that taxes on the wealthy represent an excellent starting point in ensuring that it’s possible to pass progressive policy in a minority Parliament. And Katrina Miller, Toby Sanger and Alex Hemingway point out the role the provinces can play in
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Two Michaels and the Toxic Trudeau Haters
For years their images haunted us, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, the two Michaels, trapped in Chinese prisons. Held hostage for more than 1,000 days by the Chinese government in retaliation for our arrest of the Huawei senior executive Meng Wanzhou. But then Meng was set free, and soon after
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Summer’s End But the Weather Continues Warm, Maybe Too Warm
Like kids in a class portrait at the end of the school year, these sunflowers stood tall a week ago when I walked by them, enjoying the amazing summer-like weather. This is the first weekend in fall, offiically, but it continues unusually warm. The temptation is to enjoy it, which
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: The Problem with Carbon Removal
This is Orca, the world’s largest carbon removal plant to date. It’s expected to draw 4,000 tons of airborne CO2 per year. It has two drawbacks. It’s expensive to build and expensive to operate. The real problem is that 4,000 tons of CO2 represents just three seconds of global
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Not So Special After All
Given their passionate intensity, anti-vaxxers must be finding this week’s ruling by the Ontario Human Rights Commission deeply galling. The long and short of it: they are not so special. People who choose not to get the COVID-19 vaccine due to personal preferences or “singular beliefs” do not have a right to accommodations
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: The Madness Contagion is Spreading Among Us
It took hold in the United States as the “Sovereign Citizen” or “Freeman on the Land” cult and now it’s spreading in Canada, making common cause with our anti-vaxx/anti-mask movement. The anti-vaccine movement in Canada is becoming increasingly radicalized thanks to a bizarre legal theory spreading through its ranks,
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: O’Toole’s Future
The rumblings against Erin O’Toole began on the day after he failed to become prime minister. But, Chantal Hebert writes, the Conservatives should keep O’Toole as their leader: It is certainly possible to find someone liable to comfort the Conservative base in the long-held convictions O’Toole’s campaign has challenged. But
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : The NDP Fail Us.
There were a few complaints the other day when I mentioned that the new democratic party had its hey-day back in the 1960s and 70s. What I did not explain was that the party meant something back then. I was being accused of ignoring what was called the Orange Wave
Continue readingAlberta Politics: It’s good the Two Michaels are on their way home – but let’s not forget they weren’t the only hostages
Surely most Canadians rejoiced last night when they learned the Two Michaels were on their way home from their long imprisonment in China. It’s equally certain that some very well-placed officials in the Canadian government rejoiced to know Meng Wanzhou was gone from Canada, heading home to China almost the
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s news: great news X 2
First, The Michaels are coming home. With the timing of their release Beijing reveals what everyone knew: They had been political prisoners all along. https://t.co/N8FIUuD5Es — Micah Zenko (@MicahZenko) September 25, 2021 Justin Trudeau just saved the two Michaels. No doubt worked in it all through #Elxn44 while being attacked
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Japanese Breakfast – Be Sweet
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Canadian Hostages En Route Home.
To those idiots who suggested that Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig weren’t being held hostage to secure the release of Hwawai CFO Meng Wanzhou but maybe were real spies, there are two planes in the air at this moment that say otherwise. Meng has departed Vancouver for the Peoples Republic.
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Now Comes The Necessary Part
We can argue all we want over whether the election was necessary but what is definitely necessary is the government tackling the pressing issues of the day, issues that have been pressing for decades and in some cases since before Confederation. Indigenous Reconciliation The longest standing issue in Canadian political
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: she’s free. They aren’t.
Meng Wanzhou, who did wrong, goes free. The two Michaels, who didn’t, remain imprisoned. Welcome to justice in the Justin Trudeau era: the guilty win, and the innocent lose. It all happened yesterday, a Friday afternoon, which is typically when governments do the dirtiest deeds, in the hope that fewer
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: About that Volcanic Eruption in the Canary Islands
When I read “La Palma” the story got my attention. Some years ago there was a documentary about a mega-tsunami threat to the US eastern seaboard resulting from a huge slide into the sea at the seismically volatile La Palma. The documentary was based on a research paper by
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Learning and teaching and pandemic opportunities, challenges and lessons learned
This is an unedited automated transcription by https://otter.aiof my talk given at Nottingham Trent University (online via Teams) Trent Institute for Teaching and Learning (TILT). The full presentation page is here and includes audio, video, slides and a link to this transcript. Thank you very much. And sorry about the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How The Con Media Is Trying To Steal The Election. Again.
It's hard to believe, but days after Justin Trudeau crushed the Cons and the NDP, some of those losers are still claiming that they didn't lose. They won. It was Justin Trudeau who is the real loser. And our grubby Con media is going along with that farce, warning darkly that
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Monbiot – How Did the Left Follow the Right Down the Conspiracy Theory Rabbit Hole?
Guardian columnist, George Monbiot, sees the far left unwittingly making common cause with the far right across a broad range of issues from anti-vaxxing to a variety of conspiracy theories. A few years ago, dreadlocked hippies spreading QAnon lies and muttering about a conspiracy against Donald Trump would have
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