There have been a number of important developments in the Ontario electricity sector since my last update when I summarized my arguments in front of the Ontario Legislature against the proposed Provincial Conservative legislation, now enacted, that eliminated the Provincial Liberal rate-based borrowing scheme to subsidize electricity prices and replace
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Dead Wild Roses: Happy Canada Day!
Happy Canada Day from Edmonton Alberta. 🙂 Plus information on our nation, just because. 🙂 Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Canada Day 2021: Reflection, Land Rights, and Restitution
Reflection, remembrance and mourning are important. So too is restitution. And the best way to do that, is to respect indigenous rights, including land rights. Returning significant portions of land to indigenous peoples is both a moral obligation, and a necessity for healing and true reconciliation. It also makes good
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Debate Me Coward – This is What We’re Up against.
Cortana please show me how coherent the gender identity position is. You get a cookie if you can get past 20 minutes.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Discussing Canada Day – What we should be celebrating.
Now that school is almost over (got called into a full-time temporary contract for June), I should have more time to write on the blog. I apologize for the sporadic scheduling for the last month or so, hopefully over the summer months we can get back into a regular publishing
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Doubling Down on Racism – The Chris Champion Edition
 Over at the Dorchester Review, we find one Chris Champion doubling down on his position that the "Indian Residential Schools (IRS) really weren't all that bad".  The dust-up on Twitter starts a few days ago, but culminates in a series of posts like this one, depicting students "having an
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Look In The Mirror
There is a scene in the 1960 movie, Inherit the Wind, (about the Scopes Monkey Trial) where Spencer Tracey and Frederic March, courtroom adversaries, discuss faith. March insists it is necessary for the masses to believe in something beautiful; it makes their lives more palatable. Tracy counters with a
Continue readingThings Are Good: Keystone XL is Dead, For Reals This Time
Protesting works! The absolutely foolish plan to make a massive pipeline to transport a heavily subsidized non-renewable energy source is dead. It is really dead. We’ve heard before that the project is over, only for it to come back to life. Obama and Trudeau both worked hard to ensure that
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Canada’s Mining Industry Bullies
Canadian mining companies dominate the sector in many parts of the world. Largely unregulated, they are able to profit from weak protection for the environment, workers, indigenous peoples and human rights in many countries. Two thirds of the value of Canadian mining assets is overseas, in 96 countries, and the
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Rebooting Canada, eh!
Tax the rich. That would be a good start. Close the loopholes, implement capital flight controls, tax financial speculation, tax the richest 1% and the large, profitable corporations, along with the heavy polluting industries, and put a reasonable royalty fee on oil, gas, water and forestry product exports. That would
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Oh, Canada
Loyal subjects: that is what we have been trained to be – first to the British Empire, then to the American Empire, and now, to Beijing and the global coporate empire. But Canadians have another side: we are often witty, piercingly perceptive, compassionate, welcoming, valient and brave. It is the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Cost Of A Child’s Coffin In Canada
I used to know how much a child’s casket cost because we had to fund raise so often for burials. https://t.co/OTh4zStsLy — Cindy Blackstock (@cblackst) June 1, 2021 “There Are Many Others”: 215 Bodies Found at Canadian Residential School for Indigenous Children | Democracy Now! https://t.co/yx7fyIdl5r — Cindy Blackstock (@cblackst)
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trans “Equality” Endangers Female Prisoners – Male Inmates in Women’s Prison by Abigail Shrier
The rights of females are being trampled in California as women’s boundaries and safety are being ignored in favour of male gender fantasy. “Crazy California laws occasionally go national. Take SB 132, which took effect in January. It allows transgender-identified male state prison inmates to transfer into women’s prisons
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A Radio Ad Running in Saskatchewan Says Residential School Trauma Is a Myth, & I'm Pretty Sure No One's Noticed, Nevermind Concerned? https://t.co/rR813u866c — Tammy Robert (@tammyrobert) September 23, 2018 Why are there Canadians willing to deny the Residential School system was a genocide perpetrated against Indigenous people of Canada?
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Halifax Pride Goes Full Tranish Inquisition (and fails) on Halifax Public Library
Let’s start of with Halifax Pride statement of desperately hurt feelings: In recent weeks, Halifax Pride was made aware of a petition asking the Halifax Public Library to remove a newly acquired book that jeopardizes the safety of trans youth, through unsupported medical claims and the transphobic assertion that trans
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Hundreds of Kids Found Dead In Unmarked Graves
A normal country would declare several days of mourning after a mass grave of children was discovered. — Nora Loreto (@NoLore) May 29, 2021 Canada is a normal settler-colonial country with a dark history of genocide against Indigenous peoples Canada is still fighting Kamloops residential schools survivors, and their descendants,
Continue readingThings Are Good: Plastics are Toxic in Canada
The advertising around plastics highlights how recyclable it is, but in reality plastics are a pollutant that barely get recycled in a meaningful way (this is why the 3Rs are in a particular order: reduce, reuse, recycle). Plastics come in all sorts of densities, colours, and strength, but are traditionally
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: The 2021 federal budget
I’ve written a ‘top 10’ overview of the recent federal budget. The link to the post is available here:Â https://nickfalvo.ca/ten-things-to-know-about-canadas-2021-federal-budget/
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Religious Fauxgressive Left – Heresy is Back in 2021
I never thought that I would become politically homeless in my lifetime. The tenets of class analysis, proletarian struggle, looking after the less fortunate in society seemed like a rock-solid bulwark to hold. Lately though, the Left I see is rife with witchhunting, purity tests, and outright excommunication for heretical
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: RPOJ – Canada’s Department of Justice (?) – State of the Criminal Justice System Definitions List is Erroneous and Incomplete.
This webpage from the Official Canadian Department of Justice is incomplete because of this: Where the hell is the definition for men? Did our esteemed Canadian Legal Justice of Department make a little oopsy-boo boo? Probably not. You know why? Because the category of men is fucking indisputable, men
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