America Has Already Lost the Battle for Gun Control.
It’s just $750, less than the price of a good hunting rifle. For that you can get a brand new, never fired, AR-15 shown as manufactured in Tacoma, Washington. Private…
2013
Saturday Photo: Dahlias
I used to think that the best flowers were those of early spring. Perhaps that’s because spring is when I’m really thinking gardens. But late summer and fall also have…
Approaching Native Issues and the Language of Decolonization
For the last several years, Native American activists in Canada have been using the language of “decolonize” or “decolonialism” as a part of their rhetoric in advocating for change. I…
Monbiot Reminds Us the IPCC Report Is Very, Very Conservative.
One of the brilliant successes of the Right has been to cast the IPCC as a gang of Lefty alarmists. At that point they skip over how the IPCC has…
Arms Race Update – Turkey Buys Air Defence System from China
Turkey, NATO’s sole member from the Muslim world, has ordered a new, air defence system – from China. A government committee chaired by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister, decided this…
Standing guard
Daisy the Lab waits for Son Three and his BFF to invade the mainland.
Who’s Afraid of a Peaceful Iran? Why, Israel, Of Course.
The recent chit-chat between Barack Obama and Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, has really ruffled the feathers of Benjamin Netanyahu. Benny cannot afford to lose his number one supervillain at…
Sunday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
Earlier in the 2013 season, the Saskatchewan Roughriders looked like they could control games with a ruthlessly efficient offence. Two thirds of the way through the season, that theory seems…
Harper to balance books on the backs of provinces
The Harper Government was pleased with a recent report from the PBO stating long term federal finances were “sustainable” with “substantial fiscal room.” But Harper didn’t seem to mind that…
Adrian Dix Does It Again
{An edited version of the following post has also been submitted as a guest op-ed in the 100 Mile Free Press, Anahim-Nimpo Messenger, and the Omineca Free Press–MC} Shortly after…
Vatican: Jesus was the original tweeter
Jack Dorsey, step aside — you may be Twitter’s first registered user (and hey, founder), but in the eyes of the Vatican, Jesus Christ is the original tweeter. “Christ used…
what i’m reading: man’s search for meaning by viktor frankl
I’ve just finished reading Man’s Search for Meaning, a classic written by Dr. Viktor E. Frankl in 1959, republished with various forewords and epilogues in 1984, 1992, and 2006. It’s…
Beauty of the Nature
Sometimes I try to forget the troubles of the world and enjoy nature on my long hikes. Here are some pictures I put together in a video format and added…
Why Spelling Matters
Sometimes I despair when I surf through the social media. Technology has empowered everyone to be able to comment, to post their stories, to share their opinion. Yet it has…
Babel’s backward burghers blunder on.
Babel-on-the-Bay knows that our readers are not very interested in parochial items about our modest little city here on the shores of Kempenfelt Bay. We are only telling you this…
On Going Negative
You say you aren’t going to do it, and then you do it and say you didn’t. Kathleen Wynne knows this. At least I hope she does.
The International Gasbag
Bob Rae writes that Canada now conducts its foreign policy using a megaphone. It didn’t used to be that way. And it doesn’t have to be that way now: Imagine…
Stephen Harper and the Dirty War on Canadians
Well I see Stephen Harper and his ghastly Con regime have stepped up their dirty war on Justin Trudeau. Now he’s not just a junkie, he’s selling pot to kiddies.…
Old Haunts of the Heritage Front
We're currently waiting for some information regarding a couple of upcoming articles, but we thought that we would revisit our project concerning documenting the history of the Canadian racist movement.…