Leadership 2017 Links
The latest from the NDP’s federal leadership campaign. – Kristy Kirkup reports on the release of Jagmeet Singh’s climate change policy statement.And Charlie Angus has offered his road map toward…
June 2017
This Won’t Set Well With the Donald
Who can forget the glory days when Donald Trump bragged about putting the kibosh on plans by Ford to build its Focus compact cars in Mexico? He sure straightened them…
Canada’s Energy Policy – Flying At the Speed of Stall.
BC’s Christy Clark had fantasies of massive tankers ferrying liquid natural gas to eager markets in Asia. Every Alberta premier since Peter Lougheed and every recent Canadian prime minister has…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday June 21, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. A final Separation Agreement will document all issues that have…
I Wonder
When even the dimmest and most ideologically bent among us realize they backed the wrong pony when they ignored the warnings about climate change, and when it is far too…
Oslo Improves its City Centre by Banning Car Parking
The Norwegian capital of Oslo dealt with an interesting proposition of banning all cars in the city centre by compromising. At first business and some residents (only 30% of urban…
Mulroney’s Take On Trump
The old saw about politics making strange bedfellows remains as true as ever. Consider the alliance between Justin Trudeau and Brian Mulroney. Tim Harper writes: Certainly in the past, Liberal…
Gambling with losers.
You find by being observant that the people in a hurry to get to the cashier at a casino are usually the ones wanting to get more money to gamble.…
Explaining Derek Fildebrandt’s ambitions: Jason Kenney vows to stifle ‘bozo eruptions’ in the UCP
PHOTOS: Alberta Progressive Conservative Leader Jason Kenney. He vows to find ways to ensure there are no bozo eruptions in the ranks of the United Conservative Party. This will not…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Feline face-offs.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Aditya Chakrabortty describes the Grenfell Tower fire as nothing less than social murder of the UK’s poor: Austerity is at the heart…
EVOLUTION AND NATURAL THEOLOGY
A RELIGIOUS REFUTATION OF CREATION 1883 Evolution and natural theology by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell), 1844-1912 Published 1883 INTRODUCTION. “I cannot but feel surprised that a theory -which thus…
Half of British Columbians Support Review or Cancellation of Site C Dam
Almost exactly a year ago, B.C. Hydro touted “broad support” for its controversial Site C dam — a mega hydro dam on the Peace River that would flood 107 kilometres…
Meet The Unsexy Climate Solution That Cuts Energy Bills, Creates Jobs and Saves Rivers
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has long been criticized for lowballing the potential for renewable power and overestimating future demand for oil and gas. Such forecasts matter. After all, the…
Judge’s Ruling on Standing Rock a Second Chance for Justice
The federal court’s recent ruling on the Dakota Access Pipeline saga could start a new chapter guaranteeing the rule of law and protection of water protectors, argues Mark Trahant, the…
BobFromBrockley: Guest post: Islam and the left – against secular f…
BobFromBrockley: Guest post: Islam and the left – against secular f…: This is a guest post by Ali H “I am going to give you such a weapon that the…
BobFromBrockley: The ethics of punching fascists, continued
BobFromBrockley: The ethics of punching fascists, continued: Some women who punched fascists, Yugoslavia, 1943 I wrote four very short throwaway posts on punching fascists these last few weeks, si…
How Hot Is It?
Too damned hot for planes, that’s how hot. Officials at the Phoenix, Arizona airport say 40 flights have been cancelled because some airplanes aren’t designed to fly when temperatures hit…
Omnibus Bills: Another Liberal Betrayal
When Justin Trudeau and his merry band of men and women were campaigning for our vote, they railed against the Harper propensity for passing omnibus bills; those documents, being so…