IS THERE A DENTIST IN THE HOUSE? YES, THERE IS!
Last week I walked into my Mom’s seniors’ residence and did a double-take. In the foyer, a woman wearing a white lab coat and paper face mask was peering into…
October 2017
Idiot lights: aka fog lights
Have you noticed how many people drive with their idiot lights on all the time? These are supposed to be “fog” lights, but idiots drive with them day and night,…
Just Who Is Joshua Boyle?
I don’t get it. A guy takes his wife, pregnant with their first child, backpacking through a Taliban controlled part of Afghanistan. They were on a mission, he says, to…
The Kinsellian Political Rules™
So, I tweeted about Donald Trump’s fired Chief of Staff being interviewed by Robert Mueller, the Russiagate special counsel. I said it recalls the Kinsellian Political Rule Two: never fire…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Paul Wells writes about Justin Trudeau’s natural affinity for the rich and privileged, while the Star remains unduly willing to give him the…
How Ottawa and Victoria Fed Vancouver to the Wolves.
Vancouver is reeling. The first house I bought in Vancouver, 30+ years ago, illustrates the decay. It was a nice neighbourhood of 40s vintage, ‘neat as a pin’ bungalows in…
Review: In the Wake
This book develops ways of exploring and describing the relations that constitute Black diasporic life. As I understand it – and I’m sure I’m missing lots – it begins from…
update: the gay cop on barney miller comes out, plus an adorable child sex worker
About a month ago, I wrote about an episode from the late 1970s-early 1980s sitcom “Barney Miller”, in which the squad discovers that an officer from their precinct is gay.…
Apocalypse Explained
American news likes to focus only on the human drama that ensues when disaster strikes. In contrast, Global National, clearly less fettered by corporate fiat, takes the time to analyse…
Saturday Photo: Hibiscus in October
For years I’ve had two hibiscus bushes that have bloomed perhaps a half dozen times when the conditions were just right. I put them outside in the summer, but even…
Another Canary In The Coal Mine
Everyone these days focuses on the middle class as the engine which drives the economy. However, Susan Delacourt writes, the shuttering of Sears stores across the country tells the story…
Donald Trump and the Holy Bigots
He's a dirty old man, a grubby sexual predator, a racist, a white supremacist, and an anti-gay bigot.He steals from the poor to give to the rich. He's trying to…
The Many Crusades of the Con Monster Andrew Scheer
As I'm sure you know by now, the sinister religious fanatic Andrew Scheer is on a crusade to try to turn Canada into a theocracy.Two days ago I told you…
Two NDPers on bicycles.
Reading a fatuous op-ed in the Toronto Star the other morning was funnier than the comics. It was signed by two city councillors who are New Democratic party supporters. And…
Update on Jimbo’s Minimum Wage Wager
It’s been over a week now since I challenged the authors of 5 business-friendly economic reports to a friendly wager over the future trajectory of employment in provinces that are…
Justin, Jagmeet, and the Triumph of the Millennial Voter
It's that time of the year. The leaves are finally turning red, the nights are suddenly cool. After one of my the wildest summers ever, it's time to put away…
Ryan Dean Impersonating Dan Dubois of Canadian Combat Coalition…. Badly
A few weeks back Carl Fleury in Alberta posted to Facebook announcing that he was the new head of the Alberta branch of the Canadian Combat Coalition and that they…
How to read the competing Calgary election polls
With just two days left before most Calgarians finally get their election over with, dueling poll releases from Mainstreet Research and everyone’s favourite Forum have painted some very different pictures…
David Suzuki: It’s time to nix neonics
David Suzuki on why it’s time for Canada to ban neonics, a class of widely used neuro-active insecticides that harm not only the pests they’re designed to kill, but also…
Musical interlude
Avicii – X You