Eating up the Hill: Pizza Hut Lunch Buffet
Not every Pizza Hut offers the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. But those that do are magnificent. Luckily, the one in Ottawa on Bank Street, south of Walkley is about a 20-minute…
August 2017
Guess What the Dumb Bugger Did Now?
Donald Trump is known for not heeding advice. Those who give him advice are often frustrated when he proceeds to do just the opposite. Take yesterday’s solar eclipse. While Washington…
Saving the Ozone Layer Helped More Than We Thought
It turns out when nations of the world get together to try and save the environment they can be really good at it. The Montreal Protocol was signed in 1987…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Karri Munn-Venn argues for a federal budget focused on social well-being – not merely on economic productivity. And Tom Hale discusses the…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday August 22, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. The amount payable to wrongfully dismissed employee depends on length…
Echoes Of History: 1955 and 2017
From this tragedy large, diverse groups of people organized a movement that grew to transform a nation, not sufficiently but certainly meaningfully. What matters most is what we have and…
Donald Trump and the Eclipsing of the Presidency
Although I had better things to observe, like that amazing solar eclipse, I thought I'd better watch Donald Trump's address to the nation, in case he declared war on North…
What Comes Next
There is some disagreement about whether or not Mark Twain actually said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but often it rhymes.” Be that as it may, Geoff Smith writes that these…
Happy anniversary, Lala
A bunch of Kinsellas, two Carrs and one Kirbie. A formidable team to have on your side. Kennebunk, 2015.
In the Fascist Fashion.
We should be worried about what happened in Quebec City the other day. It was not just unseemly. It certainly was not funny. They came for a fight, to create…
Salzberg and DeLuca Finally Respond to Vancouver Failure; DeLuca Blames CAP and SoO
When the members of the Worldwide Coalition Against Islam (based primarily in Alberta) and the Cultural Action Party (based almost exclusively in British Columbia) along with the Soldiers of Odin…
R.I.P. Merv Adey
It’s a sad day today. I knew Merv had been seriously ill for some time. Four weeks ago, he was hoping that a series of new treatments would be successful…
Correcting the Lies About Venezuela
Photo by Cristian Hernandez As the class struggle heated up in Venezuela this year, fueled by interventionist threats by the pro-US Organization of American States (OAS) bloc, many former supporters…
Amid Closure of B.C. Salmon Fisheries, Study Finds Feds Failed to Monitor Stocks
Canada has failed to monitor and gather data on 50 per cent of all managed salmon populations on B.C.’s north and central coasts, according to a study released Monday in…
Solar Eclipse from Regina, SK
The eclipse today was visible from Regina, but not the totality available to Americans in many states. My new Canon SX540 HS did a good job with a pair of…
X: Recipe for Hate gets its first review!
Four out of five stars, too! From NetGalley: A fast-paced and engaging inside look at a historical time that doesn’t get lots of attention but will resonate today.
August 21: Damn!
“If Rural NB Wants Better Public Services, It has to Pay More” That’s the headline on Norbert Cunningham’s column today. Yeah. They want bread? Let them eat cake. It’s smug,…
"Anti-Fa"? Hell, Yes. Proudly Fighting Fascism, Fang and Claw, Since 1937.
Anti-Fascists Heading to War We all get sent out anyway and we always sign up for the privilege. Those who have read this blog over the years will know that…