Pelicans on Wascana Lake
I never noticed Pelicans on Wascana Lake before about 3 years ago. Before that, they were common on the South Saskatchewan River through Saskatoon.
2015
What Got Dave to Come Back from Retirement? Of Course, Trump.
In other Trump news, the Republican presidential nominee contender, is spending the weekend in Arizona where he’s attending a rally with scofflaw and bigot, Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Here’s The Ugliest…
El Nino Is Coming for Christmas.
They’re calling it a “flash mob” of typhoons being spawned out of the unusually warm waters of the central Pacific. It is a succession of cyclonic storms, hurricanes, that are…
Harper is talking about our recession…
… er, economic downturn in front of a crowd of Grade fivers because… – They are only a few years younger than the PMO short pant staffers who set up…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Adrian Morrow reports on Al Gore’s explanation as to how the fight against climate change can be economically as well as environmentally…
What If Crazy Ol’ Pat is Right?
Just get’em some muskets and grey uniforms and they’ll be away to the races. This, according to uber rightwinger Pat Buchanan, who says all this gay stuff like legalizing same…
6 Years Later New Brunswick STILL Hasn’t Addressed Adult Autism Care
Years have passed, governments have come and gone, but still the elected members of the New Brunswick legislative assembly, despite international recognition for its parent advocacy driven early intervention and…
6 Years Later New Brunswick STILL Hasn’t Addressed Adult Autism Care
Years have passed, governments have come and gone, but still the elected members of the New Brunswick legislative assembly, despite international recognition for its parent advocacy driven early intervention and…
6 Years Later New Brunswick STILL Hasn’t Addressed Adult Autism Care
Years have passed, governments have come and gone, but still the elected members of the New Brunswick legislative assembly, despite international recognition for its parent advocacy driven early intervention and…
6 Years Later New Brunswick STILL Hasn’t Addressed Adult Autism Care
Years have passed, governments have come and gone, but still the elected members of the New Brunswick legislative assembly, despite international recognition for its parent advocacy driven early intervention and…
Saturday Photo: Cemetery Gates over Time
The gate on the north side of Mount Royal Cemetery are just about finished. The stonework was completed before the snow fell last winter, but it’s been some time for…
Is China an Imperialist Country?
Whether or not China is now a capitalist-imperialist country is an issue on which there is some considerable disagreement, even within the revolutionary left. This book brings together theoretical, definitional…
Neocolonialism and Noise
The world has changed over the past fifty years. There are different names for this change — neoliberalism, postmodernism, postfordism, globalization. The term i prefer to use is “neocolonialism”. But…
Neocolonialism and Noise
this image comes from an article in the mcgill daily dealing with some of the issues discussed here, but from the opposite direction, and drawing very different conclusions The world…
The Muslim Threat To Stephen Harper
Were I of the Muslim faith, I suspect I would have a deep and abiding contempt for Stephen Harper and his cabal. After all, he is the prime minister who…
The Hair makes his first mistake.
In front of a bored group of children in gym clothes the other day, the Hair announced the obvious: Canada is in an economic ‘downturn.’ Neither he nor Federal Finance…
National Televised Debate set for October.
The group of networks known as the broadcast consortium, including CBC News, has set the English-language debate for Thursday, Oct. 8, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. ET, and the French-language…
A Running Gag
https://www.pinterest.com/ Yesterday, at a campaign stop in Pickering, Stephen Harper claimed the Canadian economy was in bad shape because the global economy isn’t doing well: “Let me just state clearly…
Stephen Harper’s Deluded and Dangerous Economic Lies
It couldn't have been a more disgraceful sight. Or one more pathetic.Stephen Harper posing in front of a wall of fidgeting and yawning children.Admitting for the first time that the…
The New Stealthy Con Attack Ad That Could Help Destroy the Con Regime
There's a new Con attack ad out there aimed at Justin Trudeau. I'd heard about it but last night I saw it for the first time, and it couldn't be…