We are now just a bit more than a day past the Federal Budget, and normally this would be a time when government ministers would fan out across the country talking about the virtues of the document. Being an election year, this would especially be the case. And of course,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Linda Givetash discusses how the consequences of climate breakdown include impending water shortages in the UK. But rather than recognizing and acting on that danger, Theresa May’s Conservatives are looking at Brexit as an excuse to do even less to protect the
Continue readingWise Law Blog: LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday March 21, 2019. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Mar 21, 2019 at 7:07am PDT For more information, visit our website at http://www.wiselaw.net. –
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The Jane Philpott interview: this is extraordinary
Paul Wells and Maclean’s have got the first interview with Jane Philpott – former Minister of Health, former Treasury Board President, former Minister of Indigenous Services – and it is incredible. From the very first time I met Jane, and spoke at her riding association many years ago, I believed
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Stuff That Come Out Of The Back End
In Ontario, it’s getting wider and deeper. Education Minister Lisa Thompson announced this week that by increasing average class size in the provinces high schools , students would be prepared “for the reality of post-secondary, as well as the world of work.” Remember she was talking average class sizes. What
Continue readingThings Are Good: Students Don’t Want the Planet as-is
The kids these days aren’t alright with the world they’re inheriting. Many of the homes kids are growing up in will be under water if climate change continues at its current pace. Students who aren’t on the coast will still face extreme weather and crop shortages. Understandably, kids these days
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: PSA: Fight Misogyny – Donate to the Vancouver Rape Relief and Woman’s Shelter
This centre is being defunded because it won’t allow males into a rape crisis centre. Fight against this bullshit and help keep this haven safe for women. Go help them out. Please go donate to them. Every little bit of support helps.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Ford Forestalls Hillier’s Hussars.
It might not be up to the standards of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade but somebody should have warned Ontario premier Doug Ford before he got into a squabble with the caucus bad boy of the Ontario Tories. Oh well, Ford is due for a drubbing anyway.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Haters share one thing
…they love guns. White supremacists, neo-Nazis, homophobes, Holocaust deniers, Islamophobes, committed racists all share one thing: they are gun nuts. Back when the Heritage Front was the largest and most active hate group on the planet, they made holding a valid Canadian Firearms Acquisition Certificate a condition of membership. So,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The #LavScam stretch job-loss goal
If the SNC-Lavalin CEO says 9,000 jobs were never going to be lost – if he says he never, ever told the government there would 9,000 jobs lost – why does the Trudeau government keep claiming 9,000 jobs will be lost? #LavScam #cdnpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 21, 2019
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Alberta Election Day 2: Will UCP scandals keep traction once parties start rolling out their policies?
Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP clearly hopes to make Opposition Leader Jason Kenney’s character the ballot box issue for voters in the April 16 provincial election, but will the United Conservative Party’s scandals have as much traction now that the election writ has been dropped? The risk for the NDP strategy,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mark Olalde writes about the public subsidies being handed to U.S. resource companies who polluted water with toxic waste without having any plan or resources to clean up their messes. And Michael Mann and Bob Ward note that Donald Trump is using Stalinist
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Goudreau Claims To Not Have Written Post Encouraging Murder Laughable; We Have Videos Dude!
This past Monday Kevin "No Show" Goudreau posted the following messages on his personal Facebook profile: The last two are the most relevant as the appear to be advocating and encouraging the murder of individuals and members of groups Goudreau opposes. The posts were up for at least 5 hours
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: UN World Happiness Report 2019 – A Need to Reflect
With all the chaos and havoc sweeping so many nations, today’s release of the UN’s World Happiness Report 2019 (pdf) went largely unnoticed. That’s unfortunate because there is some thought provoking information in this report. The Top Five – Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and the Netherlands. Coming in at 9th place,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Conspicuous By Its Absence
A budget speech is not a throne speech. That said the finance minister’s speech usually highlights the government’s priorities. The Trudeau government often proclaims, with a straight face, that climate change is the greatest threat facing the nation. They’re very good at it. They don’t smirk and they don’t giggle
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Guardian – Theresa May Has Screwed the Pooch
The editorial board of The Guardian isn’t mincing words about the Theresa May’s bungling of her premiership and Britain’s dealings with Europe. Mrs May has asked the European council to extend the Brexit deadline to 30 June, by which point she hopes that parliament will have stopped obstructing her deal. Donald
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In A Dark Time
Roethke has always been my favourite poet. In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing wood— A lord of nature weeping to a tree. I live between the heron and the wren, Beasts of
Continue readingMind of Dan: Do I have something on my nose?
Do I have something on my nose?
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Alberta NDP ad: this one is gonna leave a mark
Just brutal. WATCH: Jason Kenney invited us to look at his record – so we did. Anyone who brags about barring people from saying their final goodbyes to their loved ones in hospital is just not fit to be Premier. #ableg #abvote pic.twitter.com/XBNgfGsPCI — albertaNDP (@albertaNDP) March 20, 2019
Continue readingThe Enlightened Savage: Poll Dancing
Nation, the first poll of the Alberta 2019 General Election has been released, showing the United Conservative Party of Jason Kenney holding a significant lead over Rachel Notley’s NDP overall, at 49% to 38%. The numbers broken down regionally are somewhat more positive for Notley, as her party holds a
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