He’s Back …
It’s been quite a while since we saw anything about Craig Chandler in the political sphere in Alberta. It’s not that he’s gone away – his twitter feed has been…
January 2014
Disabled, poor and Aboriginal shouldn’t be a lethal combination
I hadn’t realized before this that Brian Sinclair was Aboriginal, as well as being disabled and poor. It was a lethal combination — Sinclair sat in his wheelchair in a…
government destruction of environmental archives: the harper govt’s war on facts marches on
At year’s end, The Tyee reported that a memo – marked “secret” and first reported on OCanada.com – cast grave doubts on the Harper Government’s claim that environmental archives were…
We get letters: happy new year greetings!
From: Elnora gammie_g2000@yahoo.com Date: January 5, 2014 at 10:51:50 AM EST To: “Warren.Kinsella@sunmedia.ca” Subject: Ford Warren your shame should be complete every waking minute of every day. Your a piece…
Stephen Harper’s legacy is his ego.
If an historian a hundred years from now writes a book about Canada’s 22nd Prime Minister it is more likely to be on the man’s ego than any accomplishment while…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Frank Graves recognizes that the dismal mood of young Canadians is based on the economic reality that the expected trend toward intergenerational progress…
A Country For The Old
Stephen Harper has always been up front about one of his political objectives — the destruction of the Liberal Party. Recent polls suggest that he hasn’t succeeded on that front.…
Domestic Abuse?
Anyone who has experience with the elderly, be they grandparents, parents, or extended family members, knows that their medical needs are often complex, and their isolation profound. As we age,…
Are Younger and Older Workers Fighting for Jobs?
There was a spate of media stories recently on a US report finding that increased employment of seniors has no negative impacts at all on young people also seeking work.…
2014 – The year we ‘loose’ our democracy?
Whilst some say that it is already gone and that we are being subject to an Oligarchy well on its way to a Dictatorship, a view that I find it…
Ezra Levant, His Future
Its all cloudy, but something emerges from the mist. I see…I see….delay. I see important relationships….with… Ashley? Ashby? A law talkin’ guy…I see them severed. It’s got something to do…
The Spy Watchdog and the Northern Gateway Pipeline
Well it seems that Stephen Harper is pulling out all the stops to try to crush all opposition to his Northern Gateway pipeline.By not only getting the National Energy Board…
I Came From the Water – a children’s book about Haiti.
I always like to share what I’m reading with the kids, so after reading The Big Truck That Went By, I borrowed from the library I Came From the Water…
Stephen Harper and the Hope He Cannot Destroy
The other night I wrote about how gloomy so many progressive Canadians seem to be these days, in the brutal cold of a Canadian winter and the sinister darkness of…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Thanks to Sustainable Man on Facebook for this graphic:
Hey, Deep Freeze Canada. Remember the Trevi Fountain and Canals of Venice.
Calm down. Here on the balmy Pacific coast we know you’re being hammered by cold winds, ice and snow. It might help if you could think of it as “your…
C-c-c-christ, its c-c-c-cold
It’s 33 below here tonight — with the windchill, its almost 50 below. CTV reports that they’re expecting another snowstorm in Ontario, and there are still widespread power outages tonight…
this is a test
… Read the rest on the main Kersplebedeb website: http://kersplebedeb.com/posts/this-is-a-test/
Investing in Canada’s aging population
I have blogged frequently in the past about Canada’s baby boomers, and how they’ve moved through the economy like a ravenous horde of locusts. Their footprints are everywhere. Obviously being…