Please come back Patrick Brown.
We will have to take back some of those nasty names we have called Barrie’s Patrick Brown. Sure, he is a sleazebag but he is hardly as ignorant or as…
April 2018
A Bill to Squeeze British Columbia Till Its Pips Squeak introduced in Alberta Legislature – but can it pass constitutional muster?
Is it just me, or is almost everyone from Alberta quoted in the media sounding a little overwrought these days? Yesterday, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Energy Minister Margaret McQuaig-Boyd…
Far-right Weaponizing the Humboldt Broncos Tragedy For Fun and Profit
The death of 16 members of the Humboldt Broncos Jr. A Hockey team, players, coaches, and staff, was a horrible tragedy. The loss of so many lives has deeply affected…
Alberta threatens to turn off the taps to BC as we enter Week 11 of the Trans Mountain pipeline dispute
With little appearing to have changed after Sunday’s pipeline summit in Ottawa, the political dispute over Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline continues to escalate. In Edmonton today, Alberta Energy Minister…
‘It’s An Environmental Law-Free Zone’: B.C. Auditor General Asked to Investigate Unregulated Placer Mining
Placer mining kills fish, damages streams, poses a risk to drinking water and jeopardizes Indigenous rights, but the activity is virtually unregulated and brings little money into government coffers, says…
A Huge Breakthrough
It was an accident. Scientists were studying a plastic-eating bacterium found at a waste dump in Japan. They wanted to know what it was, how it worked, what it evolved…
Bountiful birthday, Bjorn
My youngest brother – and SFH‘s beat-keeper – is Bjorn von Flapjack III. That’s a (much, much younger) him at the drum kit at CJSW in Calgary. It’s his birthday,…
Climate Change and the Struggle Against the Kinder Morgan Pipeline
Photo by Lu Iz Thousands have been pouring onto Vancouver streets, as well as protesting across Canada, against the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been attempting…
Cambridge Analytica Ain’t Nuthin: Look Out For i360 and DataTrust
There are two dangers in the media howl over Trump’s computer gurus Cambridge Analytica, the data-driven psy-ops company founded by billionaire brown-shirts, the Mercer Family. The story is that Cambridge…
Diplomacy, and not bombing, is the way to end Syria’s agony
Photo by Scott Bobb These are serious times. Following the missile attacks on Syria, now is the moment for a powerful push for peace. Boris Johnson’s blithe acceptance on Sunday…
It’s Called "Enmity"
There are plenty of synonyms for “enmity” but somehow never quite enough. Here are some: hostility, animosity, antagonism, friction, antipathy, animus, acrimony, bitterness, rancor, resentment, aversion, ill feeling, bad feeling,…
Just Keep Pushing. Just a Little More.
Justin Trudeau erased any residual doubt that he’s more than a punk yesterday when, following a bizarre meeting with premiers Notley and Horgan, he announced that Ottawa will be using…
Good Morning Fellow Pipeline Owners
Word is that Justin is packing up the federal chequebook and heading to Texas to buy himself – and the rest of us – a lovely pipeline. This way he…
Doug Ford’s Bus and the Road To Ruin
I see that Doug Ford has unveiled his shiny new bus.And a shiny new slogan: "For the People."So he can ride in comfort all over Ontario, giving the people the…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of April 16, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 16, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Bill Cosby has a new lawyer and additional witnesses in retrial for…
Submit. You Will Submit.
In many parts of our country, a lot of Canadians still fawn over Justin Trudeau, still see him as a delightful alternative to that other guy, Harper. In my part…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tom Parkin discusses the Libs’ identity politics – and how they endanger people’s substantive interests both in what the Libs fail to do,…
Rebel Media are scumbags
Check this out. They are using the Humboldt Broncos tragedy to fundraise.
Non-Profit Create $300 Hep C Cure, For-Profit Cure is $84,000
A for-profit pharmaceutical company sells a hepatitis C cure for $84,000 in the United States, which means that the average person cannot afford it and international the cost of the…