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December 2017
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
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"Classic" As in Vintage
Canada has snubbed Boeing on the purchase of F-18 Super Hornets. Yeah! Instead we’re going to buy Australian cast offs. Noo! We’re going to buy 18 Australian F-18’s, the “Classic”…
How The Media Failed British Columbians on the Site C Dam
There is much to debate about Monday’s decision by the B.C. government to move forward with the Site C dam, but one thing is not debatable: construction should never have…
Nothing New To Report
Here is a perfect illustration of why unfettered capitalism and ethics are incompatible: Canada’s national pension fund manager is among a group of Canadian companies that are undermining the federal…
Living In a Worst Case Scenario World
Close only counts in horse shoes – at least when attention turns to potentially existential questions. The more serious the issue the more important to have the most accurate, reliable…
Nikiforuk Eviscerates Jim Horgan and Has Justin’s Guts for Garters.
He’s hands down the best journalist in Canada when it comes to fossil fuels. He’s The Tyee’s petro-scribe. And, as far as Andrew Nikiforuk is concerned, British Columbia’s new NDP…
Site C, Reconciliation and a Green New Deal
Reconciliation is not just about rhetoric, it is material. It is about how economic costs and benefits are shared. If we are to be serious about it, we have to…
Implementing UNDRIP is a Big Deal for Canada. Here’s What You Need to Know.
First opposed, then endorsed. It’s now pledged, but called “unworkable.” In Canada the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is not ratified, nor from a legal…
Airbnb: short-term rentals, short-term thinking
Photo by Open Grid Scheduler The idea of home sharing is a great one. Cities thrive on density, on different people doing different things but in close proximity to each…
Andrew Scheer & the Conservative Party have to be nervous. The NDP as well.
A rather good night for the Liberal Party last night. They held all their seats, and were able to win away a seat from the Conservatives in Surrey, BC, which…
Copernicus Satellite Constellation Shares Big Climate Data
To some people space missions seem like a waste of resources, yet, thanks to many space missions we get scientific benefits. Launched by the European Union, the constellation of satirists…
Horgan Insults Delgamuukw with the Site C Debacle
20 years ago yesterday came the Supreme Court’s Delgamuukw ruling, ensuring that this “Canada” recognizes pre-existing aboriginal sovereignty, especially in BC where virtually none of the land was ever ceded…
About those by-elections
The Newfoundland-Labrador one, no big surprise. (But the NDP result? Ouch.) The Ontario one, also no surprise. (But congrats to Ms. Yip – Arnold is smiling, today.) The Saskatchewan one,…
Two effective ways of dealing with prejudice, up above and down here
My friends were busy yesterday. My friend Bernie Farber, a veritable force of nature who is presently up to something big, scored a victory against hate yesterday: he and others…
My publisher so liked what the Toronto Star said about Recipe For Hate, they made it into a graphic
Personally, I like what Publisher’s Weekly and Quill and Quire said even more!
Through A Glass Darkly
The future does not look bright. George Monbiot writes: The trouble begins where everything begins: with soil. The UN’s famous projection that, at current rates of soil loss, the world…
Some of her best friends are Jews
If B.C. Green Party advisor Mr. Spector was still alive, we would send him this about the Trump Party that he, you know, defended. Child molester Roy Moore’s wife: “Fake…
Andrew Scheer’s Long Night of Humiliation
As you know Andrew Scheer has been looking a little desperate recently. And who can blame him?Ever since he became leader of the Harper Party he has thrown everything but…