One’s a scratching, biting, rutting, unintelligent rodent-like animal
…and the other is the Easter Bunny. Caption of Holy Week, folks, right here.
April 2017
B.C. Quietly Grants Mount Polley Mine Permit to Pipe Mine Waste Directly Into Quesnel Lake
The B.C. Ministry of Environment has quietly granted the Mount Polley Mining Corporation permission to drain mining waste directly into Quesnel Lake, B.C.’s deepest fjord lake and a source of…
Is France having a Bernie Sanders moment?
Photo by Rémi Noyon In under two weeks, voters will cast their ballots in the first round of France’s presidential election. Until last week, the outcome was thought to be…
It Could Be Another Hot, Riotous Summer for the United States
It happened in an instant. The guy in the blue shirt is identified as Nate Damigo, a white supremacist who attends California State University. In the clip below, at the…
Another WMD Hoax?
Was the Idlib sarin gas attack blamed on Bashar Assad a hoax? This is not some Facebook conspiracy theory. Let’s get that out of the way. It’s the opinion of…
Unable to “View in Google Earth” GPS tracks opened in Garmin BaseCamp or Mapsource – Solution
When I first installed Garmin MapSource (and later BaseCamp) I could open GPS tracks (gpx files) in it and select “View in Google Earth” and Google Earth would open and…
April 17:Bow, Bow, ye lower middle classes!…
…..Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses,Blow the trumpets, bang the brasses,Tantantara! Tzing, boom! http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/16/donald-trump-insists-on-gold-plated-carriage-procession-for-uk-state-visit-in-october-6577689/ The words are from Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera Iolanthe. But they aren’t comic any…
While Trudeau Fiddles, The Arctic Melts
Across the Arctic, the permafrost is thawing and, like everything else up there, it’s happening faster than we had ever foreseen. CBC News reports on Inuvik where the town’s buildings…
The Emperor Has No Clothes, The Emperor Has No Clothes, The Emperor Has No…
A tough day for the Dauphin. On both sides of the Atlantic, Justin Trudeau is being called out for who he is, not what he appears to be. In fact,…
This week’s column: fall on your sword
White House press secretary Sean Spicer standing at the door to a United Airlines plane, sipping a Pepsi. If a picture is worth a thousand words, and it assuredly is,…
Top 10 Legal headlines for the Week of April 17, 2017
#140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of April 17, 2017. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills,…
Fox News = bullshit
Fox News @JonScottFNC "To the Muslim community, if you don't want to be portrayed in a negative light don't burn people alive/set off bombs" pic.twitter.com/ouePug6tuF — Yashar (@yashar) April 16,…
Amazing CHé
Amazing CHé How sweet the sound Of Habs fans leaving their seats In the K, he was lost But with the CH, was found We give praise to Bergevin 'Twas…
Amazing Che
Amazing ChéHow sweet the soundOf Habs fans leaving their seats In the K, he was lostBut with the CH, was foundWe give praise to Bergevin ‘Twas Captain K that taughtThe…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of April 17, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 17, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: The New Old Age: The Patients Were Saved. That’s Why the Families…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The Star’s editorial board writes that it’s long past time for governments to stand up for people facing precarious work: (P)recarious workers, many…
When Is The Anti-Trump Not The Anti-Trump?
Answer: When you scratch beneath the surface of Justin Trudeau’s soaring rhetoric. In his scathing assessment of our prime minister, 350.og founder Bill McKibben says that Trudeau is, in fact,…
Tough piece on the Trudeau-Trump dynamic
But fair. Found here. As regulars know, I’ve written a lot about how there should never be a fine line between supportive and supplicant. Neville Chamberlain was very popular, for…
Living in Glass Houses
Über environmentalist Bill McKibben tells us, in The Guardian today, to “stop swooning over Justin Trudeau”: Look all you want, in fact – he sure is cute, the planet’s only…
He Doesn’t Believe Government Should Do That
Donald Trump has promised to bring back coal mining and manufacturing jobs. But a lot more jobs have been lost in the service sector. Consider what has happened in retailing.…