Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne points out the significance of even central bankers like Mark Carney recognizing the desperate need to combat inequality. And Iglika Ivanova…
2016
Memo to Kathleen Wynne: Upload the Gardiner & DVP back to the province to stop tolls
There has been huge debate recently over Toronto mayor John Tory’s proposal to impose tolls of some kind on the Gardiner Expressway and the Don Valley Parkway (DVP). Lots of…
The Largest Living Thing on Earth in Mortal Peril
It’s so big it’s plainly visible from space. At 2,300 miles in length it’s the largest living thing on the planet. It could be about to die off. The Australian…
The Swedes are Running Out of Rubbish to Recycle
This is a bit mind-boggling. The people of Sweden have become such ardent recyclers that less than one per cent of their trash winds up in the landfill. They’re so…
Stumbling towards the utility’s demise
This week, Collingwood Council met in a special meeting to discuss an request from its utility partner, PowerStream, to waive some conditions of the shareholder agreement. This meeting appears to…
Saturday Photo: Climate Change and Getting Ready for Christmas in Montreal
These are salted herring, to be filleted and marinated to make sil, the Scandinavian pickled herring dish. It’s something I’ve made every Christmas since I married into the Soderstrom family.…
This Makes Me Happy
Whether or not we like to admit it, Canadians are often a smug lot. We look, for example, at the seemingly rampant racism of the society to the south of…
Saturday Photo: Climate Change and Getting Ready for Christmas in Montreal
These are salted herring, to be filleted and marinated to make sil, the Scandinavian pickled herring dish. It’s something I’ve made every Christmas since I married into the Soderstrom family.…
Spreading stupid stuff on the Internet.
You have got to be kidding! Are there that many people who actually believe what they read on the Internet? As someone who was accessing databases on remote computers before…
Donald Trump and the Great Russian Conspiracy
We already knew that a small legion of Russian hackers had intervened in the U.S. election, hacking e-mails, and spreading fake news stories.And we knew that Vladimir Putin would not…
Glen Greenwald is Putin’s useful idiot
To recap: U.S. intelligence agencies have confirmed that Putin’s regime interfered in the U.S. election (to destroy Clinton) – and held onto some of what they found (ro blackmail Trump).…
Pulling Together
Yesterday, Canada’s first ministers met to finalize a strategy for fighting climate change. The plan puts a price on carbon — and, as of now, the price is too low.…
Proto-Fascist Trump Levels Up?
I ask this inane question . I want to be able to respect leaders who don't attack private citizens, knowing they will be abused because of it. Is it that…
Wolfgang Streeck: ‘Look at London – it’s a second Rome. This is what an empire looks like’ | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/09/wolfgang-streeck-the-german-economist-calling-time-on-capitalism Filed under: Uncategorized
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2016-12-09 22:07:00
Trump appoints 3 Generals to his cabinet- more coming LINK Donald Trump So, what self respecting Dictator doesn’t surround himself with the Generals? Heck he’ll probably appoint himself as a…
Musical interlude
CHVRCHES – Down Side Of Me
When Nature Gets Creepy
It is cold and there is enough of a wind to blow some of this tall grass around, occasionally flying into your face. Snow has fallen forcing swaths of it…
How Trudeau’s Liberals failed Canada on electoral reform
The miscalculation that Justin Trudeau made regarding his solemn promise to bring about electoral change, is shown in this summary: The Liberals, however, decided to go one step further in…
B.C. In No Position to Stonewall on National Carbon Pricing Plan
By Matt Horne for the Pembina Institute. With Canada’s first credible national climate change plan within reach, now is not the time to be watering down core policies that would…
How Trudeau’s Liberals failed Canada on electoral reform
The miscalculation that Justin Trudeau made regarding his solemn promise to bring about electoral change, is shown in this summary: The Liberals, however, decided to go one step further in…