Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Danny Dorling wonders whether we’ve finally reached the point of shifting toward greater income equality, while noting the uncertainty in trying to…
August 2017
Justin Trudeau doesn’t have the chops.
It is often amusing when Canadian writers try to compare Prime Minister Trudeau with American President Trump. They seem to think that Justin Trudeau has been understudying for his current…
Anti-Government Rally in Calgary August 27: Canadian Combat Coalition Collapse and III% Schism
Another day, another futile and rather impotent rally. The North American Freedom Fighter (formerly the Canadian Combat Coalition, but I'll get to that soon enough) is planning a rally for…
The Block’s worst abuse of power yet
I warned you. I warned you The Block would blame others for their own evil acts, that they would scheme and connive to sell your assets behind closed doors, and…
A Glimpse Of The Religiously Insane
Behold. Recommend this Post
Letter from Former B.C. Premier Calls for Halt to Site C Dam
The Site C dam is an “economic, fiscal, environmental and aboriginal treaty rights disaster,” according to former B.C. Premier Mike Harcourt. In a letter submitted to the B.C. Utilities Commission,…
4-Laning MR 35 and the Multi-Million Dollar Costs of Convenience, Part 2
In Part I of this series, I questioned some of the reasons that Greater Sudburians are being told by elected officials and others that we must 4-lane MR 35 between…
America’s Backroom Revolution or Constitutional Coup?
It may be the ultimate expression of neoliberalism – revolution. Only don’t think of George Washington and his Continental Army. The generals in the neoliberal revolution will be billionaires and…
Disturbing New Footage Shows Diseased, Deformed Salmon in B.C. Fish Farms
New footage released to DeSmog Canada shows deformed and disfigured salmon at two salmon farms on the B.C. coast — just as British Columbia reels from news of the escape…
Dear Ezra. Do Let the Door Hit Your Ass On Your Way Out.
And I hope it hits you hard enough that you squeal. The New Republic has a feature on Ezra Levant and his Rebel Media. The article focuses on how the…
The Decarie Report 2017-08-23 14:47:00
With apologies, I am going to try something different today. To understand current events, it’s important to understand them in a very broad context of years and places. It’s not…
Today in Breitbart
A Steve Bannon fidget spinner. The timing is perfect just as fidget spinners are going the way of Pogs in the 1990s. Over at the re-Bannoned Breitbart News Network, the…
Exxon Hoist On Its Own Petard
Petro-giant Exxon is facing a load of grief. Several US state attorneys-general are gunning for the company and a new report based on Exxon’s own internal documents has produced what…
The Essential Role of Perspective
The reports sound pretty awful – more than 800 dead in floods that are sweeping India, Nepal and Bangladesh. But how to make any sense out of that? I went…
Can Liberal Democracy Survive Neoliberalism?
Externalities, where would we be without them? In the Ponzi scheme we know as neoclassical economics, the sort still taught to our young in universities, externalities are impacts from economic…
The Massey Bridge: A Boondoggle Bought by Big Money?
By Arie Ross for Dogwood. Why did the BC Liberals prioritize a project that could harm local communities, the Fraser River and farmland? On the 601 bus to my hometown…
The Wonderful Humiliation of the Bigot Ezra Levant
For days even as his ratty Rebel started to take on water, and half his crew abandoned ship, Ezra Levant insisted that everything was under control.But now that ghastly bigot…
Before Clark, after Clark
When Encana’s founding CEO Gwyn Morgan became Christy Clark’s transition team advisor, natural gas producers knew they’d bet on a good thing. After six years of Clark, we now see…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday August 23, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. Where all matrimonial issues have been resolved as at the…