Dots that may connect – UPDATED
With news the BC Ferries vessel Spirit of British Columbia is about to sail to Europe for an extensive refit, I bump this article back to the top. When first…
2017
More room for public spending in lead up to election
The 2016-17 Ontario Public Accounts came out yesterday – almost a month early. The Accounts finalize the books for 2016/17 and show that the deficit is down a further$500 million…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rachel Sherman writes about the steps taken by wealthy Americans to hide how much they spend to paper over income inequality: Over lunch…
Trudeau’s Empty “Yes We Can” Moment
Obama’s “Yes We Can” mantra made many question, yes we can do what exactly? That was its brilliance. He became whatever to whoever. Trudeau’s commitment to a national inquiry on…
Why Andrew Scheer’s Crusade Is Heading For Disaster
In my last post I wrote about how Andrew Scheer had set out on his crusade, to try to bring down the Great Satan Justin Trudeau.Aided and abetted by a…
in which i contemplate the personal pros and cons of social media
I’ve been taking a break from social media, and I am feeling the positive effects. But I do miss people. But I feel better…but I miss people…but I feel better.…
Hot dog!
Fooling around with brushes in Procreate, saying yes to whatever stupid idea comes along. Filed under: art
Simply Shameful
The other day I noted the difference between Canadian and American coverage of natural disasters. Canadian news does not shy away from references to, and analyses of, climate change, while…
How’s the kitchen coming Chrystia?
Though not sure if the analogy of NAFTA negotiations being like renovating a kitchen comes from Canada’s foreign minister, by now she would disown the quote anyway. After meetings in…
Taking Away Tax Breaks
There has been a lot of sound and fury recently about something called the Canadian-controlled private corporation: Tom Walkom explains: It’s a form of corporate organization used extensively, but not…
They Must Be High
Wynne’s plan to control the sale and distribution of marijuana in Ontario will be a complete waste of taxpayer dollars and will only frustrate voters.
Fixing the date or fixing the election #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Arguably, Justice Gillian Butler’s decision in a six year old case on the special ballot provisions of the provincial election law is one of the most significant political events in…
The big problem facing Alberta that none of our politicians want to talk about
As the Alberta New Democratic Party enters the half way mark of their first four-year term in office and the United Conservative Party chooses its next leader, a big question…
Defeat Is Supposed to Be An Orphan
Not in Hillary Clinton’s world. Her defeat at the hands of Donald Trump seemingly has many fathers. In her new memoir Clinton steps up to accept the blame for her…
38 days left until Edmonton’s Municipal Election
You may have noticed election lawn signs beginning to pop up around the city – that is because there are only 38 days left until Edmontonians go to the polls…
Lightfinder, young adult book by Edmonton author Aaron Paquette, tops this week’s Audreys Books bestseller list
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Sept. 3, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
World’s 8 Richest Have as Much Wealth as Bottom Half, Oxfam Says
How concentrated has wealth become in the globalized modern world? Here’s one answer: Just eight of the richest people on earth own as much combined wealth as half the human…
A Murderous History of Korea
Photo by Stephan More than four decades ago I went to lunch with a diplomatic historian who, like me, was going through Korea-related documents at the National Archives in Washington.…
More floods are coming and we’re making them worse
Photo by NOAA Satellites When the Aztecs founded Tenochtitlán in 1325, they built it on a large island on Lake Texcoco. Its eventual 200,000-plus inhabitants relied on canals, levees, dikes,…