This Is a Bad Habit the World Needs to Quit
It sucks up 6.5 per cent of global GDP and it’s a giveaway to the guys who are ruining our planet for future generations. Five trillion dollars a year. That’s…
2017
in which old photos make me think things
I’ve been scanning some old photos — some of Allan and me through the years, others with my siblings at various ages — and have been posting them on Facebook.…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of August 8, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 8, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: 2 more Canadian sex assault cases where victims were jailed to ensure…
Is the Paris Climate Deal Fatally Flawed?
The climate change pact that emerged out of the 2015 Paris climate summit has been hailed as an environmental breakthrough. It reached consensus on a target of limiting warming to…
On Cheap Talk And Photo-Ops
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.-George Orwell Regarding the misuse by the Saudis of armoured vehicles Canada sold them, Foreign Affairs Minister…
American Startup Creates Job Board for People with Criminal Records
Americans like to think of themselves living in the land of the free, ironically the country has the highest incarceration rate on the planet (and the greatest number of people…
Just a few magic numbers
I was born August the 8th, 1953. Yes, thats 08/08/535+3=88+8+8=242×4=8And today I turn 648×8=64 Yes. I know its all coincidental, and there is no secret meanings. Just a bit of…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Noah Smith makes the case for the U.S. Democrats to emphasize trust-busting as a means of restoring power to people rather than…
Who Would Be Worse Donald Trump or Mike Pence?
He can often be seen looking on at Donald Trump's grotesque travelling circus with a strange smile on his face.When asked to say something about his boss, Mike Pence sounds…
43 years ago today
And important anniversary. Any bets on when history will repeat itself?
The Worst Is Yet To Come
So you think that with Trump gone it will be morning in American again? Think again. Paul Mason writes: The scenario being touted in Democrat circles is that Trump tries…
The grassroots of ignorance.
Recently we complained about Opposition Leader Andrew ‘Chuckles’ Scheer inciting bigotry over the restitution paid to Canadian citizen Omar Khadr. Now we have the less bright of Chuckles’ backbenchers repeating…
This week’s column: fight night insight
Every political hack remembers where they were when the first black man was elected president of the United States, or when Nelson Mandela was freed from a South African prison,…
Trump’s dangerous explicit endorsement of police brutality
Addressing a crowd of police officers in Long Island, New York, U.S. President Donald Trump explicitly endorsed police brutality, because “America is once again a nation of laws”. The post…
Handing Government to the Corporate Sector
A couple of timely posts today about Donald Trump and his fascist administration. (here, here and here) This definition of latter-day fascism is built on Mussolini’s description of fascism as…
Marcus Aurelius and The Block
Perhaps the most famous work by any Stoic is the Meditations, written as a series of notes-to-myself by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. I’ve been reading a lot of Stoic works…
An Open Book Without All Those Bothersome Pages
He’s actually doing their job for them. He is Donald Trump. They are hostile intelligence services trying to plumb the shallow depths of Trump’s mind. The steady stream of tweets…
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Forward Thinking: Win/Win
Thanks to the rotation of the Earth and the force of tectonic plates, the Pacific Northwest is rich in hydro-electric power. Moisture-laden air flows in from the Pacific, hits the…