Multiculturalism, interculturalism and secularism
I want to promise this won’t become a habit but sometimes it seems easier to just Tweet a bunch of random thoughts about an issue that I can collate and…
July 2015
LNG opponents take to waters of Howe Sound for Flotilla
Photo: Future of Howe Sound Society View article My Sea to Sea and other groups fighting to save Howe Sound from a proposed LNG plant and dangerous tanker traffic are…
Neo-Nazi ‘Your Ward News’ still being distributed by Canada Post
Why, (Minister responsible) Lisa Raitt? Why, why, why? Many, many of us are sick of this neo-Nazi shit landing in our mail boxes. It clearly meets the definition of hate…
Fahrenheit 1600
The Amazon servers take even more heating… Alltop is hot for the funny. Cartoon via Hungry for Knowledge.
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, July 10, 2015
Your news links for today: What horrible things did we learn about Hacking Team today? – Cory Doctorow Hacking Team Email Jokes About Killing ACLU’s Chris Soghoian – The Intercept…
Another Nail in the F-35’s Coffin
Another damning report on the F-35 and, once again, it’s from the website War is Boring that last week broke the leaked test pilot report showing that the Joint Strike…
Island communities could run out of water by August
Parksville gold course (BC govt/Flickr) Read this July 9 story from CBC.ca on the dire water situation facing several Vancouver Island communities. A popular B.C. seaside tourist zone is so…
New Clothes: The generational rip-off of BC LNG
A culturally modified tree tagged by LNG contractors (Graeme Pole) By Graeme Pole Thoreau said, among other things, “…beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.” Aboard the BC Ferry…
The Harper Game Plan: Taming the dragon
A must-read article by Bruce Livesey in the National Observer should send chills down the spines of the 60% of Canadians who do not want Stephen Harper to win another…
Bob Richardson, medal winner
My friend of several decades, Bob, is recognized this morning in The New York Times, no less: “The bid, mounted in 2009, was largely the work of Bob Richardson, a…
Have you seen two sides of the story?
Watching Global television news from Toronto the other day brought on a profound dismay with what many people consider as news. There are people who never read a newspaper or…
Who Can I Trust?
Regular readers of this blog will know that I am an enthusiastic supporter of The Toronto Star. The paper’s investigative reports, like no others, have had real impact, influencing decisions…
Portrait of a Calico
The princess approached and sat long enough in a way similar enough, basically a left side view, that I could get enough reference. Sometimes you can make up stuff. Sometimes…
Will He Prorogue The Election?
Things are not going as planned. The two big timbers in Stephen Harper’s election platform — the economy and national security — are rotten. The economy is nothing to crow…
Stephen Harper and the Great Con Debate Fiasco
As we all know Stephen Harper was hoping to torpedo the political leaders's debates, by boycotting the ones organized by the big three tv networks. The ones that millions of…
Overcooked Ambition #nlpoli
Nameless Conservative Party insiders predict that without Ches Crosbie as a candidate, the federal Conservative party will be crippled in Newfoundland and Labrador in the next election. Supposedly Ches could…
Harper’s Army and the Final Betrayal of Cpl. Stuart Langridge
I've written several posts about the tragic story of Cpl. Stuart Langridge, who killed himself seven years ago after serving his country honourably in Bosnia and Afghanistan.I told you how…
Metro Vancouver politicians urge review of Site C dam plan
Richard Hughes This is good news. Common-sense and the public interest trumps the greed and stupidity driving the agenda to accommodate the LNG industry with water for fracking. We do…
Europe will pay the price for Greece – FT.com
Europe will pay the price for Greece – FT.com. Filed under: Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Syriza
Donald Trump, Stephen Harper, and the Bigots That Flock Together
Golly. I never thought I'd be happy to see the grotesque billionaire bigot Donald Trump doing well at anything.But I must say this is very encouraging. "Trump's really caught fire…