Let’s Fix Canada’s Green Energy Posture
Ok, there are clearly two problems with Justin Harper’s approach to green energy, among so many others. Here, read this, then read on to see what Canada should look like:…
November 2016
Your morning #USpoli #USelection polls, courtesy of @JeffersonObama, natch
1/4 7AM ■REUT C+8 ■NOLA C+5 ■MC C+5 ■RAND C+9 ■CBS C+3 ■GOOG C+3 ■ABC: C+3 ■SVM C+7 ■CNBC C+10 ■PEW C+6 ■SU C+9 ■QUI C+7 ■BLO C+9
Celebrate sanity with the Hot Nasties!
Come see Calgary’s Hot Nasties reunite onstage for the first time in Canada in 30+ years! Thursday, November 10 at 8 p.m. at Cherry Cola, Bathurst just at Queen West!…
The Existential Threat of the Monster Donald Trump
As you know ever since Donald Trump announced that he was running for president, I have portrayed him as a monster.And tried to make fun of his absurd delusion that…
A Rare Breed Indeed
Michael Gerson used to write speeches for George W. Bush. For sixteen years, he has carried the Republican flag for George W. Bush and against Barack Obama. But he writes…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – John McDonnell outlines a progressive alternative to neoliberal economic policy: The increasing automation of jobs, reduced dependence on carbon fuels, artificial intelligence and…
Public-Private Partnerships revisited.
Canadians have had limited experience in public-private partnerships over the years and while one government can launch a public-private project it only takes the next government to destroy the value…
North Spur sideshow #nlpoli
Jim Gordon, an engineer previously critical about the design of the Muskrat Falls dam has revised his opinion. Gordon had earlier believed that the landmass known as the North Spur…
Feds offer more help with Muskrat #nlpoli
The federal government delivered a $2.9 billion additional loan guarantee Thursday in time for the Liberal Party convention this weekend in Gander. The added guarantee is less than the provincial…
BC Appeal Court Ruling Over the Shawnigan Contaminated Sites Needs Full Briefing
Residents Need Full and Proper Explanation Regarding Todays BC Appeal Court Ruling Over the Shawnigan Contaminated Sites. It would be most helpful if the CVRD lawyers would issue clear statements…
In the debate over home schooling and ‘parents’ rights,’ we need to remember children have rights too
PHOTOS: Alberta Education Minister David Eggen. Below: Wildrose Opposition Leader Brian Jean and film director and former American evangelical Frank Schaeffer (Salon photo). Controversy in Alberta over the provincial government’s…
Premier of Saskatchewan, Not Alberta Opposition Leader
SOURCE: Alberta Politics – The Question Must be Asked: Was Brad Wall’s Party Being Paid to Undermine Alberta’s NDP?SOURCE: CBC News – Saskatchewan Party Received Millions in Donations from Alberta…
Premier of Saskatchewan, Not Alberta Opposition Leader
SOURCE: Alberta Politics – The Question Must be Asked: Was Brad Wall’s Party Being Paid to Undermine Alberta’s NDP?SOURCE: CBC News – Saskatchewan Party Received Millions in Donations from Alberta…
Yves Engler: A Propaganda System
Screenshot from YouTube Winnipeg, Nov. 2, 2016: Author/activist Yves Engler was at the University of Winnipeg to promote his most recent book, A Propaganda System: How Canada’s government, corporations, media…
The Munk School of Global Affairs and University Propaganda
Photo by SimonP Next week the Fraser Institute’s newly established Peter Munk Centre for Free Enterprise will offer a day long “Introduction to Economic Reasoning” seminar for Grade 10-12 students…
Montreal police spying on journalist Patrick Lagacé condemned by Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by recent revelations that Montreal police secretly monitored the mobile phone of La Presse columist Patrick Lagacé. A coalition of Canadian rights groups links the…
Walking With Andy
Walking with Andy he talks and talks he copies things and gets on my nerves he has been to China I respect that but it looked boring (he didn’t get…
Hiatus
I’ll be out of town for a few days. Blogging will resume next week. Recommend this Post
Russia and the GOP Have the Same Goal for America – Chaos – Or How We Know Who’ll Win the American Election – Trump, No. Clinton, No. Putin, Of Course.
Republican Congressional leaders have been pretty outspoken about one thing – if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, they plan on making the gridlock that beset the Obama administration even worse,…