Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Joseph Stiglitz discusses how the Republicans’ tax scam is designed for the sole purpose of further enriching their already-wealthy donors, while Theodoric Meyer…
January 2018
Trump’s Terrific Triumph?
We have been told that U.S. President Donald Trump wants to have another inauguration this month. This time he wants a proper count of all his supporters out in the…
Andrew Scheer’s Insane Attempt To Try To Change His Image
Not long ago I warned that Andrew Scheer's shadowy inner circle of religious fanatics, the group known as The Conclave, was in a full blown panic, or a friggin' frenzy.Their…
Politics and History: SRBP at 13. #nlpoli
The week before Christmas, I dropped by The Rooms for a quick check of some government documents in the provincial archive. The last time I’d been there, a major public…
Those lame green coroplast arrows point to one thing: the UCP’s cozy relationship with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
PHOTOS: United Conservative Party MLA Wes Taylor with his notorious green coroplast arrow. Below: An example of the fun made of Mr. Taylor by Internet wags; Porky the Waster Hater,…
The Future
The Future deserves a better explanation than the one we are currently offering
One Thing Climate Change Is Not – Boring
Deadly, sure. Destructive, yep. Punishing, in some ways. Scary, big time. Climate change, the early onset stuff unfolding before our eyes, is all of those things but it’s almost never…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jennifer Wells reports on the CCPA’s latest study of the continually-increasing chasm between corporate executives and the rest of the workforce. But…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Seated cats.
Jan.2: Who is evil?
Fifty years ago, as protests against nuclear weapons spread across the world, the nuclear leaders calmed the storm with the assurance that the possession of nuclear weapons was the best…
in a youth novel about adoption, abortion doesn’t even exist
I am reading a YA novel about adopted people connecting with their biological siblings and parents. This is a topic I have written about and have an interest in, and…
Our Role in The Circle of Life: What’s Your Title?
Over the holidays this year, I’ve been thinking a lot about birth, mortality and all that’s in between. I guess you’d say, I’ve been pondering the circle of life and…
The new world disorder
2017 was bad; 2018 will be worse. That’s been my view for a while. It’s centred on a three-part thesis: one, that the West’s enemies will take further advantage of…
Darkening Clouds
Gerry Caplan begins the New Year by asking the question, “Is Doomsday really upon us?” He recalls the last time we came to the brink — the Cuban Missile Crisis:…
What Are the Top Three Things You Expect From the Trudeau Government in 2018?
As the government of Justin Trudeau sails into the third year of its mandate this would be a good time to reflect on the most important expectations we have of…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of January 2, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 2, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: US Judge: Plastic surgery wrongly denied for three NYC HIV patients Age-bias…
Ralph Nader’s Post-Mortem for America
An increasing number of progressives have been coming forward lately to pronounce the “of the people, by the people, for the people” America dead. What had been criticisms now become…
It’s Called "Climate Gentrification"
The term is used to differentiate coastal properties by their elevation above sea level. After all, there aren’t many homeowners keen to share their livingroom with the ocean, right? Particularly…
Defending Democracy.
You would think in all the many years of human social development that democracy should have gained support and growing wide-spread usage around the world. We certainly agree that it…