Plague Premier Moe has COVID-19. He spent the last few days improperly using a substandard mask in public crowds, wiping his bare nose, and coughing. Maskless 3 days ago at a school. https://t.co/U7RuRTm21T — Kelly Miller (@sqirlgirly) January 13, 2022 The release has lies.He coughed into his hand, and rubbed
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Scripturient: Should Candidates and Officials Disclose Criminal Records?
Some questions about openness and truth to consider as we start a year in which we have both a provincial and municipal election coming… Should a candidate for office disclose their criminal records when they campaign? Should they disclose it only if they were convicted of an offence or should
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Ontario Schools Opening Monday: A Collection of Responses
There is a simmering rage out there from Lecce & Moore’s reiteration of the “leaked” news of schools being in-person in five days. Of course it wasn’t truly leaked. This is how Ford gets feedback on his ideas before making them his ideas. It’s a childish way of establishing plausible
Continue readingScripturient: Don’t Blame the Liberals
Risible rightwing piffle still circulates online about who is responsible for the rising costs of fuel and food. Conservatives and libertarians love to blame the Liberals, but that’s self-serving claptrap from people who love to give handouts and tax cuts to corporations and billionaires and then wonder why governments have
Continue readingThings Are Good: The Insurrection Index Exists to Defend American Democracy
The Insurrection Index launches today to defend democracy in the United States from internal attacks on democratic institutions. The focus of the initiative is clearly in response to, and all about, the failed coup and insurrection attempt that happened on this day last year. Multiple organizations joined together to create
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: LTC Homes: Ownership Matters
Nancy Olivieri, Michael Hurley, Vivian Stamatopoulos, and Natalie Mehra explained Doug Ford’s sneaky passing of Bill 37 just before Christmas in today’s Toronto Star. They warn, “Hope to live out your old age in dignity and comfort? Think again.” Ford doesn’t want us to know what’s been stolen from Ontarians.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Sports Canary
CBC reported this morning there are 5 fewer NHL teams, yet the league is trying to soldier on instead of responding to the writing on the wall. What's up with literally dozens of Calgary Flames players and staff testing positive for COVID-19, and the NHL and fans figuring it's a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Train-Wreck That is Gender Legislation in Canada – Meghan Murphy
Do you think referring to a man as a she/her is stupid? Yeah, well you may have to watch your step and bite your tongue in Canada or face the consequences. Write your MP and get them started on amending these laws to include a lick of common sense.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The rise and rise of petrofascism
Saskatchewan is more than a Petrostate, it’s governed by Petrofascists. Surviving C21 By Julian Cribb* A new world superpower is arising. One that is unelected, borderless, controls most governments and, increasingly, employs the familiar tools of repression and deception to attain its goals. In Australia, the US and Britain, young
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Meanwhile in America – Barton Gellman
This excerpt from Paul Street’s essay over on Counterpunch. Mr.Street tends to write in a hyperbolic manner, but this analysis by Gellman should raise concerns about the integrity of the next American election. “Trump’s next coup has already begun. January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canadian Bill C-36 will Silence Women – Much to the Delight of Men
Mia Ashton writes on Canadian Bill C-36 and its implications for women and feminists who have taken up the mantle of defending female rights and boundaries in Canadian society. “There is the same complete lack of understanding surrounding this proposed hate speech legislation. Most people in Canada are not
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Political Corruption – Sarah Chayes
No one likes talking about the corruption in OUR system, yet it is present and it is a festering problem that threatens the social fabric we all depend on. “Elections boil down to conflicts within the business community.” ( T. Ferguson) When you add together the Reagan deregulations, the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Transracephobia Deployed Against Carrie Bourassa – Appalling!
The New York Post reports: “A Canadian medical researcher who rose to become the nation’s top voice on indigenous health has been ousted from her government job and her university professorship — after suspicious colleagues investigated her increasingly fanciful claims of Native American heritage and learned she was a fraud.”
Continue readingDJ Kelly | Ward 4: Opinion: The machine is always right in Alberta’s municipal elections — and that’s wrong
Originally published in the Calgary Herald Opinion section on November 30, 2021. The day after Calgary’s municipal elections, the results said I lost Ward 4 by 52 votes. With it that close, I felt compelled to request a recount, just to be sure. What I thought would be a simple
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: COVID-19 PSA
A virus cannot mutate if it cannot incubate. We know how to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, but we conflate and complicate perceived rights and freedoms w/ public health mandates and related precautions. No one has the right to infect others. No one has the freedom to be infected by
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bill Maher – Stupid Wokeness Loses Elections
The US may start catching up to the UK in combating the corrosive message of the regressive Left. Not a second too soon.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Sidewalk Tax? You Must Jest?
Yes, the www.sidewalktax.ca is a jest, it’s poking fun at the Saskatchewan Governmenet in a way that might pique your interest if you’re just an average driver going about your day. They’re running radio ads, and there’s less than a week remaining in the campaign where they’ll refund the EV
Continue readingDJ Kelly | Ward 4: Release: DJ Kelly forced to withdraw application for Ward 4 Calgary City Council election judicial recount
For Immediate Release: November 25, 2021 – Calgary, Alberta DJ Kelly, candidate for Calgary City Council in Ward 4, is announcing the formal withdrawal of the judicial recount application for the Ward 4 results in the 2021 Calgary Municipal Election. A November 19 legal conference with Justice Davidson made clear
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The American Pentagod – William Astore
William Astore writes for Tom’s Dispatch on the overreach of the American Industrial complex. The reality of the situation is this, the only thing that arms manufacturers cannot create is peace. Paraphrasing Joe Biden, show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you worship. In that context, there
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Bipartisan Nature of U.S. Decline – Alfred McCoy
It won’t be business as usual for very much longer. The mantle of world power is quite possibly changing hands within my life time. Lovely. Alfred McCoy tackles the large geopolitical issues that we will all be facing in the future. The Bipartisan Nature of U.S. Decline America’s decline
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