The question is if you paint a pig green would it no longer roll in the mud? And if we are concerned about the environment, should we vote for a party called ‘Green’? Is it that simple? Have we solved the problem of global warming, have we protected the environment
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Babel-on-the-Bay: ‘Chuckles’ is Counting on Chaos.
Conservative leader Andrew ‘Chuckles’ Scheer has reason to worry about the antics of Ontario premier Doug Ford. With less than five months to the scheduled October election, the conservative leader’s team knows the election is really going to be fought in British Columbia and Ontario. The other provinces are predictable.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: How Justin Trudeau can win.
There is a summer of barbeque season to go before Canadians get into the cut and thrust of a federal election. And it is certainly to soon to say who might win. It is even to soon to consider the odds for a morning line. What we can do is
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: ‘None of the Above’ is not an option.
There seems to be some disquiet across this fair land over our lack of good choices in the looming federal election. And whose fault is that? Frankly, Canadians have been encouraging mediocrity in politics for far too long. We have been trashing our political parties. We have been lying to
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Profiling politicians.
It is often amusing in the popular American TV program Criminal Minds when one of the actors, playing the part of an FBI agent, without much script support, out of the blue, says it is time to deliver the profile. They remind me very much of how our political commentators
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Eviscerating The Bitumen Bullshit
Give Jason Kenney, his predecessor, Rachel Notley, and our prime minister, Justin Trudeau, their due. When it comes to bitumen and bullshit they’ll lay it on just as thick as they can every chance they get. The Tyee’s petro-scribe, Alberta’s own Andrew Nikiforuk, systematically debunks every popular lie these characters
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Jody is Independent. Jane is Independent.
Wilson-Raybould has announced she’ll seek re-election in Vancouver-Granville as an independent. I expect her decision means that riding is lost to the Liberals even if she doesn’t win in October. So much for Jody. As for Jane, news crews are awaiting her arrival at some produce market in Markham-Stouffville. It
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: It’s Europe Calling, Justin. You Might Want to Take This. No? Okay.
The EU elections showed that voters are abandoning old school politics and the same old, same old. Small wonder. Right wing populists appear to be the big winners but also rising is the Green Party. People are worried. They can see what’s coming. They can feel what has already arrived.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Scheer would do better if he shut up.
Sure, it is almost five months until the federal election but everyone is out stumping anyway. You would swear that the election was in June and everyone is getting desperate. But there is no excuse possible for the blather we are getting from the conservatives. Who told conservative leader Andrew
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Choosing Chuckles for Canadians?
Of all the ridiculous strategies for the coming federal election! Why should the liberals attack the conservatives when their real opposition in the October election is themselves? To waste time attacking conservative leader and Saskatchewan MP Andrew Scheer is assuming that he concerns Canadians. He never has been the problem.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Don’t get too excited Ms. May.
If you want an area of Canada where the Green party runs rampant, go to Vancouver Island. In fact, the entire area around the Strait of Georgia seems overrun with Greens, Druids and other pagan religions. Just standing under one of those magnificent, lordly trees on the Island fills you
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Are We To Make of Justin Trudeau?
To a few, he’s the best person ever, a truly decent man and a great prime minister. To a different few, he’s the worst person ever, utterly corrupt, even venal. I don’t believe either of them. He is flawed. He is not to be trusted. He’ll break his promises without
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Young People, Climate Change, Quebec
Have our old school (atrophied) political parties misjudged the issue of climate change? I think so. The worst part is that they haven’t merely shot themselves in the foot. They were pointing that gun considerably higher. This isn’t about Paul Manly and the Green’s by-election win yesterday in Nanaimo-Ladysmith. It’s
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Is Kenney a Constitutional Crisis?
It seems that between Jason Kenney and his predecessor as premier of Alberta, Kenney has the shriller voice. When he goes to Ottawa to bitch and whine about how his province is not given everything it wants, he knows the buttons to push and the people to harangue. There was
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: I’m Glad This Week is About Over
This has been an unusually stressful week on the climate/environment front. Don’t worry, it’ll be back at full bore on Monday morning but at least there’s the weekend (I hope) to chill out. The week began with anxious wondering if Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party would table a motion for a
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: David Suzuki’s Warning – Don’t Rely On the Federal Government When Your Life’s at Stake.
As our environment slides into meltdown, David Suzuki has a word of warning – don’t count on your political leadership to do the right thing. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna have young children who will surely be greatly affected by climate change, but
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: A year late and a candidate short.
Welcome to the fray, Jeremy Broadhurst. As the just appointed campaign chair for the liberals this year, you have your work cut out for you. I would not say the job is impossible but Easter is over and I am sure God restricts us to only one resurrection per year.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Yesterday Meant to Me
Since that first time I heard Greta Thunberg, I sensed that something wonderful might be about to happen. Eventually she inspired a resistance. The school children’s revolt and then Extinction Rebellion – children and adults saying there no longer could be, nor would be, tolerance of the status quo. As
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: BRITAIN WINS! Parliament Declares Climate National Emergency
From CNN: Lawmakers in the UK Parliament have declared “an environment and climate emergency,” making it the first country in the world to do so, according to the opposition Labour Party. The motion was called by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. WE DID IT! Thanks to pressure from the Labour
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Pipelines Are a Lousy Bet
From National Public Radio, NPR: A new report by an energy watchdog group says companies are betting over a trillion dollars in risky gas pipeline projects. Global Energy Monitor says these projects are hugely expensive – so the payback is over decades. Climate scientists say we need to stop burning
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