Election Selfie
On November 5th Montreal elected its first woman mayor, Valerie Plante. I was volunteering that day and spent a couple of hours in the De l’Eglise Metro handing out voting…
November 2017
Enbridge, TransCanada Among 11 Canadian Oil and Gas Firms Using Tax Havens
Eleven of Canada’s largest oil and gas companies have dozens of subsidiaries and related companies in known tax haven jurisdictions, according to a new report from the Ottawa-based non-profit Canadians…
A Pro Forma Response
While Justin Trudeau will undoubtedly be praised by some for his polite reaction to these activists, his perfunctory response tells all you need to know about the disparity between his…
Vancouver Park Board hires first reconciliation planner
Vancouver Park Board News Release November 16, 2017 The Vancouver Park Board has approved a new position in its 2018 budget to support an ambitious reconciliation agenda. The role will…
It’s Called "Competitive Displacement" And There Are No Winners.
Competitive displacement is what happens to native species when humans come to dominate an ecosystem. Those native species are displaced, often by way of extinction. William Rees, professor emeritus of…
WTF? Now It’s "Pollution Denial"?
Remember those climate change deniers? Well they may still find solace in the bosom of the CBC but by and large they’re now thoroughly discredited. Although they seem to have…
Digging for The Truth on Site C Dam Job Numbers
Site C jobs are often cited as a main reason to proceed with the $9 billion dam on B.C.’s Peace River. But how many jobs would Site C actually create?…
Association representing Rural Districts and Counties calls for a Rural Alberta Electoral Advantage
The Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties approved a resolution opposing the recommendations included in the final report of the Electoral Boundaries Commission this week at their annual meeting…
Apple iBooks calls Recipe For Hate one of the “best books” of the month!
Wow. Apple iBooks has called Recipe For Hate one of the top books of November 2017 – and offered up this review: It’s the late ’70s and the Ramones are…
We globalists get letters
One of the gems arising out of yesterday’s events. Reads like Breitbart/Rebel on steroids. Welcome to our lives, etc.
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Canadians for Tax Fairness discusses the appallingly small tax contributions made by Canada’s largest companies, the vast majority of whom have foreign…
HELP FOR ALZHEIMER’S CAREGIVERS
I am pleased to host this guest post by Lydia Chan, whose Mom suffers from Alzheimer’s. Lydia writes for Alzheimerscaregiver.net. The data is in, and there’s no doubt that Alzheimer’s…
New column day
Here, on the Trudeau Libs’ willingness to favour the concentration of money, power and privilege. For further reading…– Peter Zimonjic reported on the fallout from Bill Morneau’s profit off of…
The 2017 Short Story Advent Calendar Continues To Top Audreys Edmonton Bestseller List
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Nov. 12, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Hard To Find
In the end, three Republican senators — Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and John McCain — torpedoed the monstrosity that was intended to put an end to Obamacare. And now they…
Birds Provide Japanese Train Design
Yesterday a Japanese train company apologized for running 20 seconds ahead of schedule. How did Japanese trains get so fast? The answer for how their famous bullet trains move so…
Media roundup: neo-Nazi rag gets charged for promoting hate
Best part of yesterday: our kids said they’re proud of us. Second-best part: Andrew brought his months-old son into the office. But it was a wonderful day, and a long…
Diminished democracy of Justin’s Liberals.
In George Orwell’s 1984, new history was written and old history incinerated. The old think and the new think were not allowed to co-exist. Nowhere is that thinking more obvious…
Is Andrew Scheer the New Jason Kenney?
When we last left Andrew Scheer he was walking through a quiet suburb looking like a dazed Forrest Gump, or a weirdo trying to pick up women.And now we know…
Ronny Cameron Continues To Promote "White Genocide" Trope
The October 21 "Trudeau Must Go" rally organized by Ronny Cameron in Nathan Phillips Square started off very shaky, but as a result of groups such as the Northern Alliance…