COUNT ME IN FOR “ONECITY”
By now you’ve probably heard about TTC Chair Karen Stintz (pictured) and Councilor Glenn DeBaeremaeker mega-plan for transity in Toronto- OneCity. Royson James has all the details over at the…
November 2017
Adiablo, Charlie.
Manson, dead at 83. Charles Manson, the fiery-eyed cult master whose lemming-like followers staged a bloody two-night murder rampage in Los Angeles in 1969 that gripped the city with fear…
Vancouver Sun: “Recipe For Hate strikes a timely chord”
The Sun: “It’s fiction, but there’s plenty of truth running throughout.”
The UCP Vote on the GSA Bill: Free Vote or Rubber Stamp?
It started innocently enough… The NDP government introduced Bill 24, an act to prohibit teachers from informing parents their kids had joined a gay-straight alliance (GSA) unless the kids consented.…
Tyler Jefferies: "Alt-Right" Troll
Yesterday CBC News posts a story concerning Barbara Kentner who was murdered when a trailer hitch was thrown at her from a moving vehicle. The article focused on lies about…
New Zealand Prepares to Receive Climate Change Refugees
Good news from a bad news story. New Zealand is proposing to issue climate refugee visas for Pacific islanders displaced from their homelands by sea level rise. In the low-lying…
And They’re Calling It "Medicane"
Climate change has brought a new severe weather event to the Mediterranean. It’s being called the “medicane.” Put simply it’s a hurricane, akin to what is routinely experienced in the…
Even the National Post is Sounding the Alarm.
By now we all know how quickly and severely the Arctic is warming. Nobody’s arguing that any more. What we don’t know, as yet, is how that’s going to impact…
Soldier Guns Are for Soldiers
US Army infantry veteran Charles Clymer shreds today’s popular myth of the “good guy with a gun” theory propagated by NRA types. He recoils at the idea that a locked…
Black cat on couch
Various filters apps and combinations. Filed under: art
I’m Sure That Can Be Arranged
Robert Mugabe’s nephew says president Bob has no intention of stepping down and “is ready to die for what is correct” rather than quit. First point. Mugabe is already 93…
What Happens When You’re Half Educated
The founders of Facebook and Google are horrified by what they have wrought. John Naughton writes: Put simply, what Google and Facebook have built is a pair of amazingly sophisticated,…
The launch launched!
And it was a fun one. The Mayor and his amazing wife came, media luminaries like Stephen Maher were in attendance, and political stars – like former MP Paul Zed…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Brent Patterson discusses how the Libs are putting the hands of their already-dubious “infrastructure bank” in the hands of people with a…
That’s Quite The Product Placement
As a keen observer of the crazed evangelicals who seem a permanent fixture/blight on the American television landscape, I hereby nominate ex-felon Jim Bakker as the most crazed media evangelical…
Is Donald Trump Losing His Marbles Again?
It's really good to know that the U.S. nuclear commander says he would resist an illegal order from Donald Trump.The US armed forces could refuse an order from the President…
Ontario’s Electricity Sector IV: Pre-Election Update
My first, second and third posts on the Ontario electricity sector described how policy and administrative decisions by different Liberal Governments gave rise to excess electricity generation with an inflated…
The Great War on Christmas Is With Us Again
Uh oh, don't look now, but it seems that the Great War on Christmas has begun.And not in the United States where Donald Trump has vowed to save Christmas from…
Mixed Messages
Apparently some MPPs who regularly vote for or against long and complex pieces of legislation without fully studying it personally (they all blindly vote much of the time as told…