Hué Back When: the Bloodbath in Vietnam Was Us
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam Mark Bowden Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017 For Mark Bowden, author of Hué 1968, the pivotal battle of the War…
January 2018
And Wynne sits in the catbird seat.
The ‘catbird seat’ is a wonderful American idiom for that perfect position in politics providing the politician with a position to observe the disarray of his or her foes. As…
The bitumen hits the fan in Alberta and Ottawa as British Columbia moves to restrict pipeline and rail flow
PHOTOS: B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman, foreground, with members of his environment and climate change strategy council last fall (Photo: Province of British Columbia). Below: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, Canadian…
Is Trudeau next? The future is female and the politics of anything goes
I like Justin Trudeau, I don’t always agree with his politics but I do like the man. Do I think he’s the greatest Prime Minister Canada has ever had? Uhm…..no.…
The Great Constitutional Pipeline War of the Rockies
Fresh from the Alberta NDP’s victory over Saskatchewan in the Fake Trade War on the Prairies, the ongoing political fight over the expansion of the existing Kinder Morgan TransMountain Pipeline…
Tim Harper perfectly quotes Michelle Rempel
…who perfectly describes Ottawa. This thing is just getting started. Some are now frantically trying to get ahead of it, and some are trying to pretend it’ll all blow over.…
Pension funds fuel privatization in Canada and Québec
Photo from BNN.ca The federal Liberal government was elected in October 2015 on a platform that included a key proposal of some $100 billion in infrastructure spending, which they claimed…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Trained cats.
Our civic centre the Block forgot
During the January 15 council meeting, there was a lengthy presentation of a strategic planning exercise (a real one, not the bogus one The Block call our “community-based strategic plan,”…
Request for Information
Could the person who left a message (not currently published) regarding this incident please email ARC: Police probe hate posters on Bells Corners mosque ARC’s email is arc(dot)collective200(at)gmail(dot)com.
B.C. Deals Blow to Kinder Morgan Oilsands Pipeline With Demand for Scientific Inquiry Into Spills
British Columbia won’t allow any increase in shipments of diluted bitumen through the province until the results of a scientific inquiry into the risks of oil spills in marine environments…
Jan 30: Some blogs I hate writing.
Donald Trump has announced that he plans to open the waters off the Atlantic coast of the U.S. to oil drilling. Yes, of course there will be oil spills and…
Eroded Beauty
Antelope Canyon X – Page Arizona Lower and upper Antelope Canyon might be swarming with tourists, but Antelope Canyon-X remains almost empty. It is like stepping into another world
How a U.S. Company is Suing Canada for Rejecting Quarry in Endangered Whale Nursery
When a Canadian federal-provincial environmental review panel ruled in 2007 that a proposed quarry would go against community core values and would threaten right whales and other marine life in…
"Push Back" Isn’t For Pushovers.
CIA director, Mike Pompeo, says Russia will almost certainly meddle in America’s 2018 mid-term Congressional elections. “I have every expectation that they will continue to try and do that but…
The Nutcracker
Clark’s Nutcracker – Grand Canyon South Rim
I’VE FELT SO MUCH AND NOW I’M NUMB
Today I was speaking with another caregiver. We were talking about trauma.My friend’s Mom has been progressively losing skills due to a degenerative disease. It wasn’t just the disappearing abilities…
Infrastructure Crisis
While I think it is widely known here that Canada has a massive infrastructure deficit to the tune of $123 billion, people are perhaps less aware of the dire situation…
Will Bezos, Buffett, and Morgan Conquer American Health Care?
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan plan to tag team America’s healthcare insurance industry. Three corporate giants are teaming up to combat what billionaire Warren Buffett calls a “hungry tapeworm”…
LawFact of the day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday January 30, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jan…