May 12: Damn!
I have just spent over five hours working on today’s blog. And it just disappeared. Damn! I want to go to bed soon. And I don’t think that gives me…
2017
Five Handy Facts About the Northern B.C. Oil Tanker Ban
A bill to restrict the movement of oil off the north coast of British Columbia has been formally tabled by the federal government in the House of Commons, according to…
Civil Suit Alleges B.C. Blacklisting Forestry Consultant Who Warned of Timber Overcutting, Faulty Data
Forestry has been a passion and a career for Martin Watts for 25 years, but, since attempting to point out problems with B.C.’s process for setting logging rates, his forestry…
A Trump-Free Day
A day off. Hell, I might make it a long weekend off. Screw Donald Trump. Screw his ratbag of advisers and spokespeople. Screw the Democrats too for that matter. Screw…
The Mighty Finn’s leap of faith, to Ludwig Von
This little video has been seen hundreds of times by folks. We hear more about Finn than anything else, these days. So, naturally, I decided to add Beethoven (the glorious…
The Simianularity
“I swear to God, I never thought the cyborg-monkeys would betray us.” Alltop wouldn’t survive even the robo-bees stage.
Donald Trump is a liar, a criminal, and a danger to all of us
…everyone who is sane knows that. He is a draft dodger. He is a racist. He sexually assaults women and brags about it. He violated the Cuba embargo. He has…
Review: Hegemony How-To
We need more spaces and more opportunities to think through past, present, and future choices that we face in our movements and communities-in-struggle; this book is an effort to catalyze…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Scott Sinclair writes that there’s no reason for any party to NAFTA to see itself as being stuck with the existing agreement (or…
Liberating Your Children?
Yes, let’s! You know you want to. And if you find some mental resistance to sliding to the right side of the image, question your assumptions.
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Although the above title is taken from both a song and a movie title, it seems as apt a way as any to describe the current state of the American…
Donald Trump and the Road to Impeachment
For about four days before he abruptly fired FBI director James Comey, Donald Trump practically disappeared from public view.Later he'd claim the reason he fired Comey was because "he wasn't…
When 25 per cent isn’t
It’s difficult to understate the political importance of the Ontario government’s 25 per cent hydro rate cut: all of the chips are riding on it, pretty much. Youth pharmacare and…
A Republic — If They Can Keep It
Michael Harris puts James Comey’s dismissal in its larger context. Donald Trump plans to sabotage the Republic: The good news is, people don’t like it. The bad news? He’s beginning…
A politico posits on Patrick Brown.
One of the more interesting aspects of some politicians is the effort they will take to make sure you do not know them. It is like Ontario voters should be…
Junk reporting of medical research
The Telegraph is a major conventional newspaper in the United Kingdom. And it spreads fake news. There’s nothing surprising in that. Most conventional news organisations produce some amount of pure…
Who needs old-time climate change deniers when we’ve got the ‘New Climate Denialism’?
PHOTOS: Shannon Daub, associate director of the CCPA’s British Columbia office and co-director of the Corporate Mapping Project, at the mapping project’s 2017 Summer Institute at the University of Victoria…
BC election proves unabashed left-wing messages can win wide voter support
B.C. NDP Leader John Horgan on election night I wrote last weekend about how the progressive/socialist left needed to start winning elections in order to prove they (and not wishy…
It Sure Looks Like Trump is Cracking Up.
Maybe Donald Trump is unhinged, mentally deranged. Remarks he made during an interview with NBC Nightly News today must raise doubts about the screwball in the Oval Office. The White…
We’re just a village.
People were outraged by a recent pronouncement that London was a village. It hurts because it’s true.I have always said London is a city that just can’t grow up. And…