Leadership 2017 Links
The latest from the federal NDP’s leadership campaign. – Peter Zimonjic, Katie Derosa and the Canadian Press each offered coverage of the Victoria debate. – Charlie Angus unveiled Christine Moore’s…
2017
Retreat From the Sea. Retreat To the Sea.
The Pacific Northwest is being hammered right now with a widespread heatwave, summer drought, and massive wildfires across mainland British Columbia that are spreading a blanket of smoke throughout the…
August 4: End Days in the U.S.
I never miss the irving press. It’s always a world class stinker. The Saturday editorial, for example, suggested we reduce the cost of university education in New Brunswick. Rubbish! We’re…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 29: Western nation in crisis … guess which one.
An important democracy in the Western Hemisphere is lurching towards a dictatorship after the election of a crazed, megalomaniacal leader. And no, this isn’t another blog about Donald Trump. (Betcha…
Three years on, Mount Polley disaster a painful reminder of never-ending horror
Photo by Jonathan Hayward/CP Bev Sellers is constantly reminded about the deeply personal, social and cultural loss that she and others in her community of Williams Lake have suffered since…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Paul Buchheit discusses the U.S.’ combination of increasing inequality, systematic tax evasion and false promises of social mobility. Michael Savage reports that even…
4 Proposed Tar Sands Oil Pipelines Pose a Threat to Water Resources
Photo from Public Domain A new analysis from Greenpeace USA finds that the three companies proposing to build tar sands pipelines have a legacy of pipeline spills, and that tar…
Where the wild things are, and ACR.
Its been a hard slog here at the Batcave since ACR went on a hiatus. It took some time to get this back online because I have been so swamped…
What Would You Be Willing To Sacrifice?
Ed Finn has a blog entry at rabble.ca that I highly recommend. His thesis can roughly be summarized in this excerpt: The glue that holds any society together is faith…
Absolutely
Anyway you look at it, Michael Harris writes, Donald Trump is a fascist. You can’t pussyfoot your way around that conclusion: I use the word fascist advisedly. If we are…
Donald Trump: When a Fascist Is a Fascist is a Fascist
For a long time I hesitated to call Donald Trump a fascist. I thought he was just a bloated clown, and I didn't want to devalue the word.But not any…
She could use her married name.
The question was: What would help Brian Mulroney’s daughter win a seat in the Legislature in the next Ontario provincial election? The obvious answer is to use a different name.…
Muskrat, risk, and memory #nlpoli
There’s a great column in Saturday’s Telegram by Pam Frampton than anyone concerned about Muskrat Falls should read. It’s the latest in a string of columns that Pam’s been writing…
Moose Jaw Reunion
I was in Moose Jaw for a family reunion on Sunday. My Dad was in hospital fighting off another infection, while his immunity is compromised by chemo. The rest of…
Would Jason Kenney kill the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion for short-term political gain in Alberta? Just askin’
PHOTOS: Jason Kenney, at left, in his fevered imagination, visits the Alberta Army on the B.C. front. (Photo of an actual event, heaven only knows what, grabbed from Mr. Kenney’s…
Zundel dead? It’s a hoax
Oh, and good riddance to bad rubbish. Neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel is dead. He ran a holocaust-denying publishing operation out of Toronto decades ago, was charged & deported to Germany —…
Jason Kenney: Servant Leader…what?
Now isn’t this a conundrum… The impetus to unite the Wildrose and the Progressive Conservative parties was the assumption that only a united conservative party could beat the NDP in…
Leadership 2017 Candidate Rankings – August 6
I’ve thus far held off on doing candidate rankings for the federal NDP leadership campaign – and may not end up updating them weekly as I have in past campaigns.…
Nope. Couldn’t do it.
I lasted until August 5. Truth be told it wasn’t THAT bad. I have a tan for the first time in years and I actually got into the water a…