Legends of Horror
Legends of Horror is the title of one multi-DVD collections of films I own. Fifty films in this package. They’re B-films for the most part (and a few of lesser…
September 2017
Vancouver Park Board floats balloon ban
Jessica Kerr / Vancouver Courier September 13, 2017 03:49 PM The Vancouver Park Board will next week entertain a motion that could deflate future festivities in city parks, community centres…
Leadership 2017 Links
The latest from the federal NDP’s leadership campaign as tomorrow’s showcases approach – and as members begin to fill out their ballots. – The Star’s editorial board has been meeting…
The Annexation of Palestine and the Expulsion of Its People
What did we expect after collaborating with the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian homeland for more than a half century? They’ve even got a name for it, “The Decision Plan.”…
The House Covers the Opioid Crisis
I cringed as I listened to ‘The House’ on CBC doing a special on Canada’s opioid crisis. Scratch the surface on this folks: we need to go after the companies…
Life and Death in Cattle Class
They still like to call it “economy” or “coach” but to a lot of people it’s now just “cattle class” and it’s no laughing matter. In fact it could be…
what i’m reading: the radium girls by kate moore
Readers of a certain age might remember clocks and watches with glowing green dials. The dials were painted with radium, the radioactive element discovered by Marie Curie. We had clocks…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Phillip Inman reports on a new UN study (PDF) showing that the inequality caused by austerity results in particular harm to women who…
Saturday Photo: Rock of Ages, How Concrete Built the World as We Know It
This is the week that I start work in earnest on my next book, tentatively titled Rock of Ages: How Concrete Built the World as We Know It. Now that…
The Golden Mean Has Disappeared
Rather than practising the fine art of political compromise, Lawrence Martin writes, Americans are heading to the extremes: It was thought that Mr. Sanders was boneyard-bound politically after his primaries’…
Exposed: The Con Tax Scam to Fool Canadians
For weeks I've been warning that there was something funny or fishy about the way Andrew Scheer and his Cons were attacking the Liberal government's plans to reform our tax…
Does Wynne win with weed?
Everyone seems to be a bit nonplused by the possibility of Premier Kathleen Wynne promoting the sales of marijuana in Ontario. It might not be the best idea to come…
Alberta Legislature Members’ Services Committee passes ‘Derek’s Rule,’ banning Airbnb rentals of MLA apartments
PHOTOS: Former Wildrose and UCP caucus member Derek Fildebrandt, now an Independent Alberta MLA, in happier times for him when he was an employee of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Below:…
Musical interlude
Watchmen – Say Something
Uh, Yeah, Duly Noted
There’s an eye-opener. Canada’s top officer at NORAD, a lt.-gen no less, tells us that the US does not consider itself obliged to defend Canada in case of a North…
True Integrity? Not The Block…
There’s an interesting article online called, 13 Traits of People With True Integrity that opens with the (unintentionally?) funny line: Integrity, for those who are not familiar, is quite important.…
Our Dilemma in Three Graphs
In a world where mankind is already running headlong into so many walls this is what some see in store for the next twenty of thirty years. If they’re right,…
Ostracizing Washington?
Donald Trump is not going to like this. He’s being sidelined while the leaders of 34 major economies gather in Montreal this weekend for talks aimed at preventing Washington from…
My Weekend Cooking Tip
In a word, two words, “sous vide.” I was a fierce apostate until my daughter bought me the device last Christmas and a true believer ever since.Granted my cooking is…
The Right Corrupts Everything, Even Think Tanks.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way.When America’s great think tanks were born, they were specifically intended to advance the public interest, the public welfare. That was before they were…