Is Donald Trump Preparing To Fire Robert Mueller?
His terrified White House aides say they have never seen Donald Trump looking and sounding so crazy.The terrorist tragedy in New York has temporarily distracted him, but according to reports…
2017
70,000 Acres of Rainforest Being Replanted
This week it was announced that carbon in our atmosphere has reached levels not seen for 800,000 years. Clearly we need to do better to reduce our consumption of fossil…
He Does Not Understand
Before anyone starts to agree with former prime minister Stephen Harper’s conclusion that the Liberals have been “napping on NAFTA,” Tim Harper suggests that they take a look at Stephen…
The Incredible Hypocrisy of Andrew Scheer
As we all know Andrew Scheer has been turning parliament into a freak show by going after the decent Bill Morneau day in day out.Accusing him of using tax shelters,…
Ten reasons for first-past-the-post voting.
The following has been retrieved from the archives of Babel-on-the-Bay. It is part of the Democracy Papers and has been the most read item in our web site. Thousands of…
Why John Kelly Needs to Keep His Damn Mouth Shut
I never paid too much attention to the American Civil War but still I was taken aback when White House Chief of Staff and retired Marine general John Kelly wrote…
October Bits and Bites (Halloween Edition): Ronny Cameron and Taxes, JDL Targets "Your Ward News," WCAI Sad Face, and "The Goudreau"
In a previous this writer posted a screen shot of Ronny Cameron promoting the formation of an "elite" protest team: Well a few days ago we learned third hand what…
Get ready for a by-election in Calgary-Lougheed
Photo: A map of the Calgary-Lougheed constituency. With Calgary-Lougheed MLA Dave Rodney expected to resign tomorrow in order to provide new United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney an opportunity to…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats with costumes.
The federal government can’t stand by when minority rights are being trampled
Photo by Katie Currid By now Quebec’s Bill 62 has been fairly comprehensively discredited, in all its nastiness, its contradictions and its dishonesties. A law passed in the name of…
‘US Champion of Dirty Wars and Interventionism’: Evo Morales on JFK Files
Photo by Sebastian Baryli Bolivian President Evo Morales said the United States is the “champion of dirty wars and interventionism,” Saturday in response to the JFK files recently published detailing…
The U.S. military is conducting secret missions all over Africa
Photo by US Army Africa U.S. troops are now conducting 3,500 exercises, programs, and engagements per year, an average of nearly 10 missions per day, on the African continent, according…
The Site C choice
British Columbia Utilities Commission will release its second Site C report on November 1. I expect this will provide further information but not a definitive recommendation. But, of course, the…
Just Sayin’ It Sounds a Little Weird to Me.
America’s new ambassador to Canada is Kelly Knight Craft. It looks like we got a winner this time. Her remark that there is good science on both sides of the…
Casting Bones and Reading Entrails Takes on a New Dimension When They’re Trump’s Guts and Bones
Poor old Donald, America’s “tax returns concealer in chief.” Not for nothing did the Mango Mussolini refuse to divulge his personal tax info. There’s probably a lot to hide. His…
Dear Justin
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Proof That Science and Money Don’t Mix?
The mix of governments, private companies and the medical community puts one thing in last place: the health of the general public.
Monsanto Fingered?
Glyphosate is the key chemical in agri-chem giant Monsanto’s controversial herbicide, RoundUp. Now in a development similar to the discovery of decades old Exxon internal documents acknowledging man-made climate change,…
Bravo iPhone!
Three hours in a lily pond. In a cold lily pond. Pulling down vines and branches and leaves from a roof over the back deck, I stepped off the ladder,…