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Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: America, we hardly knew ya!
While some desperate Canadians still manage to flee south to escape our bitter winters, we have not been seeing Americans breaching our locked-down borders in any large numbers. American tourists used to come in droves for the pageantry in Toronto of our Caribbean festival and our gay days and maybe
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of January 18, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 18, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: A US federal judge has granted a stay of execution for the only woman on federal death row pending a competence hearing Former hospital CEO to get more than $1M payout after losing
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Trump Loots White House, Stealing Jokes
Seth’s team figured it would be a joke if they suggested Trump would brazenly take things out of the White House, but it appeared to happen the same day, which they note in the video.
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Jason Kenney Reverses Peter Lougheed’s Coal Policy
Remember 2017 when Jason Kenney continually invoked Peter Lougheed’s name in his quest for the UCP leadership? Well, it’s 2021 and Mr Kenney isn’t wrapping himself in Mr Lougheed’s mantle any longer. He’s ripping it to shreds. Next week the Kenney government is going to court to defend
Continue readingThe Decarie Report: Jan. 17: Be Patient with us old farts….
Ah, the confusion of life. I have a whole blog that seems to have gone missing. And my confusion is not helped by a diet of sleeping pills that can knock me out for 15 hours and more. I’m sorry. This has been a wretchedly drawn out several days for
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: The On-Again, Off-Again KXL Pipeline
CBC is reporting that Joe Biden intends to move quickly after his inauguration this Wednesday to cancel the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has indicated plans to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit via executive action on his first day in office, sources confirmed to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On climate pollution
Martin Olzynski’s submission this week has called plenty of attention to the Kenney UCP’s funding of climate denialism through an inquiry attacking environmentalism. But let’s note that the response to Olzynski’s observations only makes the inquiry look all the worse. Here’s the excuse from the inquiry’s spokesman: Boras suggested to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Kate Aronoff writes about the need for a functional and representative democracy to ensure that public demand for climate action is actually represented in policy decisions. And Seth Klein rightly proposes that the NDP (or Bloc) should take the opportunity in a
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Oh, The Insensate Crowd
While we can take some comfort that the kind of madness that grips the United States is absent in Canada, we would be wrong to think there aren’t seeds of it here: Toronto police have arrested three participants in two separate anti-lockdown protests downtown Saturday afternoon, the same day the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Creeping Illiteracy Across Canada
It seems literacy isn’t a top priority for hewers of wood and drawers of water. Literacy skills that a student develops in school can be lost in jobs where muscle memory is more important than reading comprehension. Literacy, it seems, can be a “use it or lose it” proposition.
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Party Hasn’t Changed
Erin O’Toole does not want the residents of Canada’s prisons to be the first Canadians vaccinated. It’s part of the old Stephen Harper playbook. Robin Sears writes: Canadian conservatives since the Reform Party-era in the ‘80s have often skated too close to the line on Islamophobia, guns, refugees and Indigenous
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The pandemic that killed small businesses.
It has always been obvious that while our politicians will say positive things about small and entrepreneurial businesses, the big box stores are all they can see. And nothing has culled the field of small business faster than the second wave of the pandemic. But it was not covid-19 that
Continue readingAlberta Politics: ‘Public’ inquiry into ‘anti-Alberta’ campaigns descends into fiasco with request for third extension, apparently posted in error
Having just been busted for commissioning three reports that an expert critic dismissed as “textbook examples of climate change denialism,” the commissioner of the so-called Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns now appears to be seeking a third extension of time before delivering his final report. Commissioner Steve Allan’s request
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Saskatchewan Takes Infection Lead With “Personal Responsibility”
If you hear someone talking about “personal responsibility” to get us out of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re gaslighting you. There’s no reasonable expectation that individuals acting responsibly can end the plague. The only thing that has worked around the world is national/provincial/state coordination from the top down. How's personal responsibility
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