Pot-Induced Delusions
Governments and organizations all over Canada have pot-induced delusions. We know that there’s a growing likelihood that marijuana will be legalized. What’s less likely is how it can be monetized.…
April 2017
NDP plan to change funding model for agricultural commissions is unlikely to much help farmers or the government
PHOTOS: Alberta Agriculture Minister Oneil Carlier with some of the members, staff and leaders of the province’s agricultural commissions at a sparsely attended news conference in Edmonton yesterday to announce…
Alberta’s Conservatives are obsessed with Gay-Straight Alliances
Following Progressive Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney’s comments to the Calgary Postmedia editorial board fifteen days ago when he came out in favour of allowing schools to inform parents when…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Clingy cats.
That United Airlines Video is Bad for the Airline. It’s Worse, Much Worse for America.
The video of hired muscle dragging a terrified Chinese American guy off a United Airlines jetliner in Chicago has raised quite a stir but America being America it’ll be down…
The passing of a Vancouver pioneer and icon: Bill Wong 1922-2017
Bill Wong, photo courtesy of Caroline Y.M Ng The following are remarks I made at last night’s meeting of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation: Chair, Commissioners, Thank you…
Spicer’s Folly – "Even Hitler Didn’t Use Chemical Weapons"
Trump’s gaffe-prone press secretary, Sean “Sphincter” Spicer, has soiled himself again. “We didn’t use chemical weapons in World War II,” Spicer said when discussing alleged Russian complicity with the Assad…
Vancouver Park Board approves new Joint Operating Agreement with Community Centre Associations
Vancouver Park Board News Release April 11, 2017 At a VancouverPark Board meeting last night, Commissioners approved a new Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) to offer to 20 Community Centre Associations…
Justin Trudeau’s dangerous Syrian Trump gambit
Even nominally “progressive” media outlets like The Guardian took at face value that Trump was personally horrified by pictures of dead Syrian children. But this is all total rubbish. Anyone,…
Could This Be It? Are China, S. Korea and the U.S. Coming for Kim Jong-un?
For the past couple of days there have been reports of a US Navy carrier battle group steaming for North Korea. The formation is now said to be off the…
Why are liberals now cheerleading a warmongering Trump?
Photo by Gage Skidmore In just three months, those who vowed to oppose the president are eating out of his hands. A man who backs torture and castigated his predecessors…
April 11: apologies. This is an extra, and it’s just me talking.
The news media are beating the drums for war. Even the trivial Brunswick News is running inflamatory stories about Syria. One, from Associated Press, is headed “Chemical weapons attack latest…
Help wanted
Choose your next job: — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 11, 2017
Do We Really Need Another Reason to Despise Our Airlines?
It’s easy to hate airlines which, for Canadians, means Air Canada in particular. Or at least for Canadians who find themselves having to fly “Cattle Class.” My last – last…
This is how you do crisis comms, United Airlines
From the York Region District School Board trustees, facing a bit of a challenge of their own. Be proactive Be clear No jargon Take responsibility Say what you are going…
B.C. Rejects Request for Inquiry into Mining Practices
Widespread criticism of B.C.’s mining rules is undeserved according to Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett, who has turned down a recommendation from the University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Centre…
Want to See Climate Change? Go to Your Grocery Store, Produce Aisle.
Even in Canada, California supplies a good bit of our fruits and vegetables, especially in the off season. We feared for supply – and cost – while California farmers endured…
Stealth Over Syria or When You Put It That Way
America’s F-22 Raptor stealth fighter is reportedly being flown in Syrian airspace. That could bring America’s top stealth warplane into dangerous proximity to Russia’s “stealth killer” air defence missiles, the…
Adult Assembly Required: Fake News
The term Fake News isn’t real! Surprised? Probably not, as we have been bombarded with the term Fake News as an action verb since the election of Donald Trump, in…
Coal Museum Powered by Solar Panels
If the end of coal wasn’t obviously upon us, it is now. The Kentucky Coal Museum has switched to solar power for energy and cost savings. Yes, in what might…