The Orlando Massacre and the Doctor’s Bloody Shoes
When I saw the first pictures of the Pulse nightclub shooting, and I saw the ambulances converging on the scene.And then because there weren't enough of them, I saw the…
June 2016
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Bagged cats.
LRT in Waterloo Park
This used to be a line of mature trees alongside a pretty railway line. Now there is a hideous raised rail bed of gravel, structures every 50 feet that look…
LRT in Waterloo Park
This used to be a line of mature trees alongside a pretty railway line. Now there is a hideous raised rail bed of gravel, structures every 50 feet that look…
LRT in Waterloo Park
This used to be a line of mature trees alongside a pretty railway line. Now there is a hideous raised rail bed of gravel, structures every 50 feet that look…
LRT in Waterloo Park
This used to be a line of mature trees, a bit of grass, a pretty railway line alongside a wide path...
Does CSIS Want Canada On a War Footing?
According to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Vlad Putin is going for his guns and it could mean war is on our horizon.Fine time to tell us now that our…
Global Weirding – B.C. – and An Addition to the Family.
It's snowing on Vancouver's north shore mountains. Snow is accumulating on Grouse, Cypress and Mt. Seymour.And British Columbians can welcome a new arrival to our coastal dolphin community. Short-beaked common…
Lockheed’s Weird Narrative
For me, the miner's canary was a PostMedia Matthew Fisher column claiming that opting for the Boeing Super Hornet instead of Lockheed's F-35 would leave the Canadian north defenceless. I…
August 14: computer crash
It happened on Sunday. So I'm just back to work late on Tuesday. So this may be a short blog. Luckily, there's nothing in the Irving press today or yesterday…
When the Fossil Fuelers Are Done, Ordinary Albertans Are Screwed.
Such is life in a petro-state. Alberta has about 150,000 abandoned or dormant wells, many of them on farmland. The farmers didn't want them but they couldn't stop them going…
Walk #7 – Completing The Circle
“This is what I had come for, just this, and nothing more. A fling of leafy motion on the cliffs, the assault of real things, living and still, with shapes
The MSM Semantics of anti-Semitism…
ANALYSIS Has the activist left decided anti-Semitism doesn’t exist?: Neil Macdonald History, detail and nuance often ignored in modern political discourse By Neil Macdonald, CBC News Posted: … Source: The…
The MSM Semantics of anti-Semitism…
ANALYSIS Has the activist left decided anti-Semitism doesn’t exist?: Neil Macdonald History, detail and nuance often ignored in modern political discourse By Neil Macdonald, CBC News Posted: Jun 14, 2016…
LNG Industry Could Make B.C. Canada’s Worst Actor on Climate
While the B.C. government may like to claim it’s a “climate leader,” the province has quietly become a climate laggard compared to Canada’s other most populous provinces according to a…
LNG Industry Could Make B.C. Canada’s Worst Actor on Climate
While the B.C. government may like to claim it’s a “climate leader,” the province has quietly become a climate laggard compared to Canada’s other most populous provinces according to a…
Turning How We See the Economy On Its Head
It's not the way we do things. It contradicts our economic thought. Yet the way we've done things, our economic modelling has been instrumental in helping create the environmental calamity…
Oh Dear. Trump’s Dirty Laundry – To Russia with Love.
This could be very awkward. Hackers, allegedly from the Russian government, are said to have broken into the computers of the Democratic National Committee and filched the database on opposition…