BC’s uncomfortable political reality
I noticed this at Bob Mackin’s website and my thoughts match his. So, it is easier to steal Bob’s words than crank out ones of my own that couldn’t be…
April 2013
Around the world
Teddy again with a quick look at politics around the world. We start today in Japan, where a summer election for the upper house is scheduled. If the polls are…
CUPE Day of Mourning reminder of fight for safer work places
By: Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE): April 28 is the International Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job. CUPE will honour these workers who have…
5921…Rita MacNeil’s death should make us angry
That is the headline over Andre Picard’s story in the Globe and Mail yesterday.The obese superstar died in a Cape Breton hospital later this month from an infection after a…
5920…I Smell A New Tory Senator
Peter Penashue.As you know he is going to get beaten like a rented mule in the by elex in Labrador next month. According to a QMI poll “The Liberal candidate,…
Time For the Left to Stage a Comeback?
In Paul Krugman’s Friday NYT column, the nobel laureate economist took a broad and deserved swipe at the “Austerians” and what he calls their 1 Percent Solution. At this point,…
It’s April 27, 2013: a few days after my blog’s…
It’s April 27, 2013: a few days after my blog’s first anniversary, the weekend of Rebelfest in Hamilton, and a few days before International Workers’ Day (aka Mayday, aka the…
Saturday Photo: The Scylla of Spring
For some reason, the scylla are particularly nice this year. How I love flowers that naturalize and come back year after year.
Who is the real terrorist?: LowKey – Terrorist video
Definitions of terrorism: “The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.” – Merriam Webster “Systematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve some goal.“ – Free Dictionary…
Rightwing Knuckledraggers Unite!!!!
Climate Change Scientist Calls Conservatives ‘Neanderthal’ CBC | Posted: 04/27/2013 8:03 am EDT | Updated: 04/27/2013 9:46 am EDT This message is only marginally redundant..and the Conjobs could care less,…
First He Gagged the Public Service and the Armed Forces. Now It’s the RCMP, the Royal Conservative Mounted Police.
The Harper government seems to have politically captured the RCMP. One of the most astonishing abuses of democracy perpetrated by the Harper conservatives has been the “capture” of Canada’s public…
Peacock: Beauty and Wonders of Nature
Peacock is a stunningly beautiful bird. To me it looks like that someone prepared a design and then in a workshop built it with all those patterns, green and blue…
Leading Climate Scientist Responds To Joe Oliver And His ‘Neanderthal Government’ – UPDATED
The other day I wrote a blog post on one of our national disgraces, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver. While in Washington recently promoting the proposed XL Keystone pipeline through…
George Jones Has Died R.I.P. ‘He Stopped Loving Her Today’
George Jones arguably Country Musics all time greatest singer died in a Nashville Hospital yesterday. I have included a You Tube video of George singing his tear jerker “He stopped…
Harper Cons Are "Neanderthals" – James Hansen
Take that, Joe Oliver. Retired NASA Goddard Space Laboratory director James Hansen says Harper and his underlings are lashing out at him because they’re getting very worried. Pipeline Minister A…
A sign of the times at the New York Times
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission A brief correction notice in the New York Times shows that our world is changing. Several others have already noticed a…
April 27: This is the blog….
….I knew I would have to write some day. The dispute between hothead Hemming and the province’s medical system is only a small part of a much, much bigger crisis…
Fracking Our National Parks: America’s Best Idea Threatened By Oil and Gas Addiction
Teddy Roosevelt must be rolling over in his grave. Elkhorn Ranch, where the great Republican conservationist sat on his porch overlooking the Little Missouri River and conceived his then-progressive theories…