The sharing economy blues
On January 13, 2015, around 70 of Portland’s 460 Taxi cabs protested fair taxi laws by parking in Pioneer square. Organizers want city leaders to make ride-sharing companies play by…
September 2016
Sept. 23: Sometimes it’s all just too vile…..
The front page headline in today's irving press is "NB Power customers owe nearly $5 million in unpaid electricity bills".That's it. It's those damn, lazy poor people that are robbin'…
The blind alleys of “Generation Screwed”
Photo by Darren Stone, Victoria Times Colonist In recent years, much has been made about the experience of millennials in the contemporary economy. And this isn’t without reason: wages are…
This Morning In Police Shootings…
Killed for a misread tweet. Inquiry into #DonDunphy announced https://t.co/aoJ2QgHQkR #cdnpoli #nlpoli — Derrick O'Keefe (@derrickokeefe) September 23, 2016 Woman experiencing mental distress calls 911. Police arrive and shoot her…
Trudeau Can’t Have His Climate Plan and Build a Pipeline Too
So far Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a lot of the right moves when it comes to the important issue of climate change, but a new report this week…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Scott Sinclair, Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood and Stuart Trew study the contents of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. Sinclair and Trew also highlight why…
Musical interlude
Tame Impala - New Person, Same Old Mistakes
Wild Pacific Salmon Face Upstream Battle for Survival
Salmon have been swimming in Pacific Northwest waters for at least seven million years, as indicated by fossils of large saber-tooth salmon found in the area. During that time, they’ve…
Concerned residents seek answers as geese continue to deface Women’s Monument
Geese droppings have been defacing the monument in Vancouver’s Thornton Park since 2013By Cory Correia, CBC News Posted: Sep 22, 2016 7:08 PM PTThe continuing defacement of a Vancouver monument…
The Return of the Monstrous Chris and Kellie Show
The other day I wrote about how Kellie Leitch's "Anti-Canadian Values" campaign had brought back memories of the Chris and Kellie show.The barbaric Con production where Leitch and Chris Alexander…
Drowning In Our Excesses
The news is alarming, the statistics incredible, the implications dire. A convergence of factors, not the least of which is climate change, is causing rapid ice-sheet melting in Greenland. It…
Dancing a Tango With Medical Professionals
Today I am in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at a conference of the American Association of CP and Developmental Medicine. Yesterday I had the privilege of giving the Chambers Family Lifespan…
On The Edge Of Insanity
The "American Dream" used to be summed up in two words -- upward mobility. And, after World War II, almost everyone in the United States was upwardly mobile. Ben Fountain…
How far Bill Davis’ party has fallen.
We can admit it now but could not when he was Premier of Ontario, Bill Davis is a decent guy. As much as he likes to pose as the bastion…
Donald Trump’s New and Outrageous Scam
As a Canadian I have always found it hard to understand how Donald Trump has managed to fool so many Americans into believing that he is more than just a…
Reforming the way government works #nlpoli
Conservative and New Democrat goons are fapping themselves into a frenzy on Twitter over Bern Coffey's appointment as Clerk of the Executive Council. Qualifications don't matter, they would have it.…
And the Ig Nobel Goes To…
Hang your head, Canada. This year's Ig Nobel peace prize has been awarded to a team of philosophers from the University of Waterloo for their research paper entitled, "On the…
The Natives are Restless. Be Grateful.
First Nations groups have earned a lot of respect from other Canadians for their stalwart leadership in the fight against the fossil fuelers. Now Canadian tribes have signed a treaty…