I haven’t always agreed with failed NDP leader, Thomas Mulcair, but he’s on the money in his op-ed in the latest Maclean’s, “How Canada became an environmental outlier.” Liberals and the left freely denounced Stephen Harper for turning Canada into a climate pariah. At UN climate summits Canada was regularly
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: Solidarity for Breakfast in Fort Frances
We’re in the home stretch of the Conservative Leadership race and before the month is done, Canadians will know who will be the one chosen to lead the Conservative party going forward. Leadership campaigns are grueling events in the best of times, with lots of travel and attempts to get
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: WE/Oui Oversight
It was just a week ago that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau testified before the House of Commons Finance Committee and in something that seems normal for 2020, it’s felt like it’s been longer. Since then we’ve seen polling come out showing the damage the WE Scandal has done to the
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Back To School With Doug
This week Doug Ford revealed his back to school plan. He’s not getting high marks. Bruce Arthur writes: The safe care of our children is a fundamental social compact. So many parents have been stretched to breaking while trying to work from home and take care of their children. Society
Continue readingwmtc: a piece of new york is gone: pete hamill, rest in peace
A piece of New York City died this week. Pete Hamill, a legendary New York journalist and possibly the last of a breed, died yesterday at age 85. Obituaries describe him as a “tabloid poet” or “tabloid hero”. If he hadn’t existed, perhaps Raymond Chandler would have invented him. It
Continue readingSudbury Steve May: Here’s Why a Letter to the Editor from Ward 2 Councillor’s Adviser Published Today in the Sudbury Star is Misleading – and Unhelpful
I just read this letter to the Editor of the Sudbury Star from Tom Price, who is an adviser to Ward 2 Councillor Michael Vagnini. I have serious concerns about this letter due to a number of things in it that are simply not true. As some here know, I
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Good union jobs! Green jobs! UCP supporters need not panic, they’re not for anyone around here!
Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party, friends of the union man and woman, not to mention the environment! Who would have seen that coming? Premier Jason Kenney (Photo: Chris Schwarz, Government of Alberta). Yet there was Energy Minister Sonya Savage, her words in black and white in the text
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Back to the Future: 1992 study reveals recreation, ecology, viewscapes trump logging in Municipal Forest Reserve
Almost three decades ago, North Cowichan’s Forest Advisory Committee retained a consultant to review municipal logging on Maple Mountain and to ask people and organizations to fill out a questionnaire on what they value Read more…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Fake WE Scandal and the DipperCon Monster
It's been that kind of holiday. I should have been in Scotland running wild in the highlands, but instead I'm practically a prisoner in Toronto. Yesterday I was planning to go and do a little kiteboarding on the other side of the island, but fell asleep in my hammock, and missed
Continue readingPostArctica: Street Writing …or?
Street Writing – that’s the term I have been applying to what I have been doing since mid May. The activity has evolved from simply me sitting on some infrastructure provided seating along the Verdun waterfront to me using a little portable stool and writing on the now car free
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: The sun sets on Hong Kong
Once an enterprise Canadians went to war for, the British Empire is now in disgrace. And no wonder. It owns many sins. The Atlantic slave trade, the Kenyan gulag, the theft of aboriginal lands, the list is long. And dark. But the history of civilization is the history of empires
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Great Athabascan Write Off
It’s not like Justin Trudeau and Jason Kenney couldn’t see this coming. It’s just that they wouldn’t. Bloomberg reports that energy giant, Exxon, is preparing to write off certain fossil fuel reserves as “unviable” in the world’s new energy markets. For Exxon that may mean writing down 20 per cent
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Science In Use
Right Wing media started this year telling people that the new Coronavirus was the flu, and would cause no deaths in America. Fast forward to August and almost 150,000 Americans are buried due to COVID-19 infections they didn’t overcome. Even those who recover face other problems ranging from recurring breathing
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The Answer To Cancer – Important Video
Extremely important – and FREE VIEWING this afternoon. (Wed, Aug. 5, 2020) Video will be taken offline at 9pm ET, when Episode Two goes live. Episode One is two hours, eight minutes; plus there is a one hour additional video. So start watching before 6pm! The first episode starts with
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Don’t blame COVID-19 for new Site C dam cost overruns and delays, energy experts say
BC Hydro has classified the health of the most expensive public project in B.C. history as ‘red,’ blaming the pandemic for Site C’s deepening woes, but significant problems had emerged well before the virus Read more…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Surprise – Destroy Habitat, Say Hello to Disease
Okay, a study confirms it. There, are you happy? The human destruction of natural ecosystems increases the numbers of rats, bats and other animals that harbour diseases that can lead to pandemics such as Covid-19, a comprehensive analysis has found. The research assessed nearly 7,000 animal communities on six continents
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: “WE” are killing the Trudeau government
Federal numbers from Léger this morning showing the Liberals have now completely fallen from their pandemic bump. Regional numbers:ATL LPC+35QC BQ+6ON LPC+6MB/SK CPC+25 (over NDP, LPC 3rd)AB CPC+21BC LPC +1 pic.twitter.com/RSMlbsJ705 — P.J. Fournier | 338Canada | Qc125 (@338Canada) August 5, 2020
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Add This to Your Vocabulary – ‘Refugia’
Around the world, southern hemisphere and northern, there is a mass migration underway. Species, terrestrial and marine; insect, reptile, mammal, bird, even plants are shifting ever poleward away from the overheating equatorial and tropical zones. During the Ice Age species that survived migrated toward the equatorial/tropical latitudes. This time migration
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ed Yong examines how the coronavirus has been allowed to run rampant in the U.S. And the Globe and Mail’s editorial board warns that we can’t have much confidence that Canada is prepared to deal with pandemics either. – Paul Krugman discusses how
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Anything but normal
Plenty of people are rightly wondering how the Saskatchewan Party could possibly have hyped up an announcement about what we’ll see as students return to fall, then unveiled what remains the least substantive excuse for a plan in the country. And while there’s no doubt that the lack of concern
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