Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats with costumes.
October 2017
The federal government can’t stand by when minority rights are being trampled
Photo by Katie Currid By now Quebec’s Bill 62 has been fairly comprehensively discredited, in all its nastiness, its contradictions and its dishonesties. A law passed in the name of…
‘US Champion of Dirty Wars and Interventionism’: Evo Morales on JFK Files
Photo by Sebastian Baryli Bolivian President Evo Morales said the United States is the “champion of dirty wars and interventionism,” Saturday in response to the JFK files recently published detailing…
The U.S. military is conducting secret missions all over Africa
Photo by US Army Africa U.S. troops are now conducting 3,500 exercises, programs, and engagements per year, an average of nearly 10 missions per day, on the African continent, according…
The Site C choice
British Columbia Utilities Commission will release its second Site C report on November 1. I expect this will provide further information but not a definitive recommendation. But, of course, the…
Just Sayin’ It Sounds a Little Weird to Me.
America’s new ambassador to Canada is Kelly Knight Craft. It looks like we got a winner this time. Her remark that there is good science on both sides of the…
Casting Bones and Reading Entrails Takes on a New Dimension When They’re Trump’s Guts and Bones
Poor old Donald, America’s “tax returns concealer in chief.” Not for nothing did the Mango Mussolini refuse to divulge his personal tax info. There’s probably a lot to hide. His…
Dear Justin
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Proof That Science and Money Don’t Mix?
The mix of governments, private companies and the medical community puts one thing in last place: the health of the general public.
Monsanto Fingered?
Glyphosate is the key chemical in agri-chem giant Monsanto’s controversial herbicide, RoundUp. Now in a development similar to the discovery of decades old Exxon internal documents acknowledging man-made climate change,…
Hang the Rich
No, this isn’t about taxing the rich to raise revenues to fight inequality. It’s about locking the bastards up. “Better Late Than Never” Gordon Brown, former British prime minister, argues…
That Tightness in Your Chest? That’s Time Running Out.
The clock is running out – on us, me and you. As The Guardian’s Damian Carrington reminds us, the health of hundreds of millions of people around the world is…
Open vs secret at Collingwood Council
How two Collingwood councils handled the utility sale process very differently Last term, Collingwood Council went through a lengthy, open and public process to sell a portion of its electrical…
It’s about the process, stupid…
My negative comments on the impending privatization of our electrical utility (and potentially our water utility once the first deal is sealed) drew some online criticism recently. None of those…
I Hope Bob Mueller Has a Sense of Humour
There are some things that just get better with age. That includes scandals. They need time to soak and simmer. Yesterday it was Manafort (plus one) and Papadopoulos. Trump began…
Toronto MPP Proposes a Tax on Walking
A fine for not looking every way but Sunday when walking amounts to nothing more than a tax on walking.
Earthgauge News – Oct. 30, 2017
Edition #4 of the Earthgauge News podcast for the week of Oct. 30, 2017. A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Join…
Leadership 2017 Reference Page
A one-stop source for general links on the 2017 NDP leadership campaign, to be updated as the race progresses. Please feel free to add additional suggestions in comments. General InformationNDP…
Bravo iPhone!
Three hours in a lily pond. In a cold lily pond. Pulling down vines and branches and leaves from a roof over the back deck, I stepped off the ladder,…