Danielle Smith: We Should Defund Public Schools
So, according to Danielle Smith, our public schools aren't teaching the right kind of critical thinking skills. Apparently in her world, this is an excuse to defund the public schools…
March 2018
Review: The Cache and Other Stories
I thoroughly enjoyed this new collection of short stories and poems, by Sherry D. Ramsey. As always, her fiction is rooted in authentic human emotions, problems and foibles, even when…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment: Whose Family Values?
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment: Whose Family Values?: Women and the Social Reproduction of Capitalism “proletarii, propertyless citizens whose service to the State was to raise children (…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday March 8, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
That Meeting In The Seychelles
Robert Mueller has another cooperating witness. His name is George Nader. Mueller is interested in Nader because of a meeting he attended. Andrew Prokop reports in Vox that Nader met…
Is the Con Media Winning The War on Justin Trudeau?
I wasn't sure I had enough material to write even a short post about day three of Andrew Scheer's Great Con Clown Tour of London.And his desperate attempt to land…
Teens are Fighting for our Collective Climate Future
Teens today are doing something their parents didn’t do: act on the knowledge that climate change is happening. Boomers did a great job of gobbling many of the worlds resources…
New column day
Here, expanding on these posts as to the show of strength from both Ryan Meili and Trent Wotherspoon in the NDP’s leadership campaign as compared to any of the Saskatchewan…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Noortje Uphoff writes about the long-term effects of growing up in poverty and the resulting stress on a child: Our childhood affects…
My IWD posterperson(s)
For #IWD2018, I give you the extraordinary woman (and proud grandmother) who has fundamentally changed me.
“We stand on guard for thee.”
The last time our parliamentarians screwed around with Canada’s national anthem, they were trying to make it gender neutral. What they accomplished was to have some of us singing different…
It’s all about Derek (2018, dark comedy) – ‘politics is full of bullshit’ … at least when nothing’s going your way
HOTOS: Independent MLA Derek Fildebrandt at the moment yesterday when he declared “politics is full of bullshit.” (Photo: Screenshot of CBC’s broadcast of the news conference.) Below: United Conservative Party…
Crying for the Moon by Mary Walsh leads Audreys Books Edmonton Bestseller List this week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended March 4, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
B.C. Moves Ahead With Review of Controversial Environmental Assessment Process
There are so many problems with B.C.’s current environmental assessment process that a review, announced Wednesday by Environment Minister George Heyman, will almost certainly mean improvements, say environmental groups. Heyman…
Maryland Tries to Drop a Huge Wrench Into Donald Trump’s Minuscule Gears
It’s started in Maryland but the Old Line state may be just the first. A bill is working its way through the state legislature that anyone running for president of…
Dart and Newstalk 1010 Ontario politics shocker poll: it had better be one Hell of a March 28 budget
…because they are seriously running out of runway. Wow. This poll is a shocker, from respected pollster John Wright and the good folks at 1010: Despite Leadership Contest Tumult, Preference…
Earthgauge News – March 5, 2018
Edition #11 of the Earthgauge News podcast for the week of March 5, 2018 A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Join…
I’ve Got the Green Water Blues
I haven’t been posting much lately. I’ve been writing quite a bit, a small mountain of drafts, but I just never finish them. I give up. I’ve accepted that we…
Eating up the Hill: Green Curry Tempeh Bowl, Basmati Rice
Excited by the prospect of the green curry, I overlooked the word tempeh. That was my mistake. Had I taken the time to Google, I would have learned that tempeh…
I honestly thought Donald Trump would have…
In 1787, the American Constitutional Convention came to be. George Washington was elected to be its chairman and he sat in a very beautiful chair. On the back of the…