First Week Back.
With parliament resuming its been an interesting week both in the House and elsewhere, our new Prime Minister continued with his almost unrelenting schedule of travelling around actually talking to…
February 2016
Stephen Harper and the Little Killer
When most people think of climate change they probably think of images like this one.A scorched earth, starving people, and wars over water.But when I think of climate change I…
Christy Clark’s disingenuous comments on the TPP
B.C. Premier Christy Clark is a very big fan of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement—in her words, a "100 per cent" supporter. In a comment on CBC Radio's The…
A Girl In Hitler Youth
The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood by Ursula Mahlendorf My rating: 4 of 5 stars Ursula Mahlendorf was born the same year as my mother. They were…
February 2016 Bits and Bites
So PEGIDA Canada held another rally today without telling anyone. The results were as sad as the previous effort despite the spin they placed on it: In related news, we're…
A Little More For Alberta’s Bishops To Stew On
Since Alberta’s Roman Catholic Bishops seem to have something up their cassocks about transgender students, I thought it would be quite appropriate to post the following article that appeared in…
A Little More For Alberta’s Bishops To Stew On
Since Alberta's Roman Catholic Bishops seem to have something up their cassocks about transgender students, I thought it would be quite appropriate to post the following article that appeared in…
A Little More For Alberta’s Bishops To Stew On
Since Alberta's Roman Catholic Bishops seem to have something up their cassocks about transgender students, I thought it would be quite appropriate to post the following article that appeared in…
Catalyst’s Crofton Pulp Mill Appears Headed For A Train Wreck
Don Maroc North Cowichan Mayor Lefebure Doesn’t Think It Is Necessary To Create A Budgetary Contingency Plan After a century and a half of deceit and duplicity you would think…
This disappearing newspaper stuff
It’s affecting me more than I thought it would. I predicted it, I wrote about it, I analyzed it. But it has hit me – that his big, bad thing…
HOME: The Making of a Sanctuary
Guest Post by Vickie Cammack (Originally published in Safe and Secure: Six Steps to Creating a Good Life for People with Disabilities by Al Etmanski)For one glorious summer in the…
Feb. 6: I knew this would be a bad day……
…...when I opened the Canada and World Section to see that four of the eight pages were taken up with photos of babies born in 2015. In this world teetering…
On double majorities
Nathan Cullen's proposal for party representation on the Parliamentary committee reviewing electoral reform has received plenty of attention. But it might actually go much further than advertised to validate the…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Robert Atkinson discusses the need for corporate tax policy to encourage economic development rather than profit-taking and share inflation. And Jim Hightower notes that…
Stuff Still Happens, week 5: The trial of Jian Who, and Trump is trumped
The Iowa caucuses were held on Monday, and the picture for both parties is now crystal clear — I can say without fear of contradiction that Martin O’Malley will NOT…
Eating up the Hill: Centre Block Pho
I had other plans for lunch on Friday. Since I began working on the Hill I've either eaten out or just worked through lunch, but that can get pricey. So…
Eating up the Hill: Centre Block Pho
I had other plans for lunch on Friday. Since I began working on the Hill I've either eaten out or just worked through lunch, but that can get pricey. So…
This is where I was a week ago today
It is older than Stonehenge. Any guesses what it is?
Aesop is Still Relevant
A MONKEY perched upon a lofty tree saw some Fishermen casting their nets into a river, and narrowly watched their proceedings. The Fishermen after a while gave up fishing, and…