OK, the blog title doesn’t exactly work. You come up with a pun for both Speakers of Canada and the US Congress quitting/being tossed in one week. Both the Canadian, and American Speakers of the House should resign at the same time this week. Would be a pleasant moment in
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Conservatives Turned Into a Soft-core Hate Party So Gradually, I Hardly Noticed
How in the ever-loving Eff could someone not realize that the Conservative Party of Canada was now a party willing to weaponize hatred to gain support, money, and Internet trolls? It’s apparently really GD easy. Yeah, I’m swearing, because this isht is ludicrous. Maybe the first clue for CPC voters
Continue readingThings Are Good: Time to Move Away from Suburbia
Generic car focussed housing development. The future is 15 minutes away and it’s high time we get there. With the climate crisis in full swing we need to rethink unsustainable lifestyles and restructure unsustainable urban design into sustainable living. The concept of the 15 minutes city has gained popularity and
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Reality Sinks In For Trump, Indicted Again
The Reality is that Trump is no Winner. He’s Snowed-In. He’s headed to the big house, not the White House. Reality got 5 years for one document. — Chuckadero (@ChuckScheper) June 9, 2023 How did Snowden, with not even a high school education, get access to top secret U.S. records.
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Despicable bedfellows
Professor Robert Reich is a public affairs commentator published in a broad range of forums. His Substack platform is always worth reading. A recent entry argues that that under Elon Musk, Twitter has fully embraced the political right. As evidence, Reich offers the robber baron’s lovefest with book-banning culture warrior
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ComeupPence
Pun is from a friend. What are all 3 of these ex-executive dorks doing with classified documents in their homes anyway??
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: November
There are things going on. From absurd numbers of kids home sick from school, to the Grey Cup going on today in Regina. The most vocal civilian critic of the SaskParty’s support of abusive religious schools (who were teaching dinosaurs were around with Creationist people), had their home vandalized with
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Hammer Fox News
Fox News would like its viewers to think that political assassination is an everyday occurrence, and the perps walk the next day. i like how they're trying to call it random because they know they're partially responsible for spreading hatred for pelosi. this was not random. — Sherron Shabazz (@SherronShabazz)
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Row Row Row Your Boat
Gently off a cliff,Throw the women overboard,Republicans want a tiff. The Trump Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which for half a century put an end to most low-quality abortions in the United States. The Handmaid’s Tale gets ever closer to looking like a documentary, instead of a horror novel/movie
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Top Story of June 10, 2022? Former President Trump Tried a Coup
“Trump was at the center of this conspiracy,” Chairman Thompson said in his opening remarks at the first public Jan. 6 hearing. https://t.co/8gqmTtTpTW pic.twitter.com/8SFan1xZNA — MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 10, 2022 There’s no question Trump’s insurrection attempt on January 6th, 2021, was a coup that failed. Rep. Liz Cheney, Republican of
Continue readingThings Are Good: Canada Implements Handgun Ban
Mass shootings in the USA have tripled in the last few decades with mass shootings becoming an almost daily occurrence. Canadians are no strangers to mass shoutings either, with too many happening within the country. Obviously, that’s not good. The Canadian government has responded to this dangerous increase in firearm
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: Making sense of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
What has become clear is that Canadian and American media are manufacturing consent, and presenting the Russian invasion of Ukraine outside of its historical context. The act of invasion is 100% Vladimir Putin’s decision, and the invasion was not justified. At the same time, the conditions that led to this
Continue readingThings Are Good: Fight Book Bans by Reading These Books
Movements in the United States are trying to ban a number of works of fictions which they deem to be problematic. The problem, as they see it, is that certain books can help people question the world around them. Another problem they identify is that some books for children inform
Continue readingThings Are Good: Mexico Targets American Gun Manufactures
The drug cartels in Mexico are backed by American guns and profits from selling drugs to Americans. The Mexican government can’t do anything about the demand side within America, but they can do something about the arms trade. The Mexican government is strategically taking American gun makers and sellers to
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 readingNorthern Currents –: How capitalism made the pandemic worse, every step of the way
The internal logic of capitalism has tainted our government’s response to the pandemic. Corporate profits were preserved, while the interests of the working class were disregarded. Pandemic austerity and vaccine nationalism were the primary themes of government responses, and have grave consequences for the working class and health of humanity.
Continue readingThings Are Good: They mapped the thousand places in America where you’re breathing poison
The Trump administration in the USA cut funding for their Environmental Protection Agency which led to an increase in pollution that harms people and nature. The pollution problem isn’t all thanks to Trump though, it comes from years of negligence around policies and procedures to protect communities from dangerous industrial
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Friendly Fire
Or war crime? Our report from last night on the awful ISIS attack outside Kabul airport as families still search Kabul's morgues for their loved ones.. Many we spoke to, including eyewitnesses, said significant numbers of those killed were shot dead by US forces in the panic after the blast
Continue readingThings Are Good: It’s Time to Destroy Highways to Build Cities
People make cities an interesting place to be. It’s the people that produce culture and economic prosperity, yet many cities have highways going right through them. These highways make the city worse in every regard. Now, cities in America will be getting funding to repair the cities from the damage
Continue readingThings Are Good: Cleaner Air Produced $5 Billion in Crops
Farmers can’t control the air quality of their farms, yet the air makes quite the difference to the success of the crops. Since air can’t respect property rights it requires governments to act, and that’s what happened back in the 1990s in the USA when environmental regulations to improve air
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