Dante’s 21st Century Inferno
Syria, Tom Walkom writes, has become the most dangerous place on earth. It is now the centre of several intersecting rivalries. Consider what has happened since the war began seven…
April 2018
The end of the gas plant affair.
The Ontario gas plant affair has ended badly. There are no good guys in the story. It was a sorry tale of misinformation and harangue. It was public participation gone…
Mission accomplished in Syria? Don’t bet more than you can afford to lose on that claim!
Mission Accomplished? Donald Trump’s crowing Tweets prove the wisdom of Karl Marx’s dictum: History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. This fact is a significant blessing, nonetheless, at…
April 14, 2018 Calgary Counter-Protest At City Hall a Success
This was the day that Artur Pawlowski and his Street Church members as well as folks like Steven “Four Names” Myatt, Sandra Solomon, members of the Canadian Combat Coalition, Joey…
Vancouver Park Board announces major Seawall upgrades
Areas affected include near English Bay, Sunset and Second beaches, Brockton Point Courier staff / Vancouver Courier April 12, 2018 One of Vancouver’s crown jewels is getting some love. The…
You’re Right, Justin. Delusional, but Right.
The prime minister has spoken. Justin Trudeau proclaimed that his pipeline fetish isn’t about “punishing” British Columbia. The man/boy prime minister is utterly, indisputably right. It isn’t about punishing British…
Beginner’s Kata: uncensored stray thoughts on revolutionary organization, by J. Sakai
also available for purchase as a pamphlet from leftwingbooks.net “Beginner’s mind” is a zen phrase. It reminds us that when we first took this path as beginners, we approached it…
Jennifer Quist’s Apocalypse of Morgan Turner tops Audreys Edmonton Bestseller List
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended April 7, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
On the social environment
Having written my column this week on one of the more glaring areas of increasingly alarming neglect from the Saskatchewan Party under Scott Moe, I’ll take a moment to point…
Despite NDP stamp of approval, pipeline rally looked and sounded like UCP event
The situation may have felt normal to the cadre of Opposition United Conservative Party MLAs there, but I imagine some of the NDP backbenchers huddled on the steps of the…
Reporter Was Right Before
When someone is correct multiple times about major events, it’s worth hearing what they have to say about the latest unfolding. Trump’s Presidency is crumbling, and if Americans wake up,…
Of mice and men, and trackballs, too
Late last year, I purchased another laptop to separate my work and recreational uses. After a long search in stores, and a lot of online reading and comparing models, I…
At Last, An Ally. Merci, Quebec.
Let’s hit bully boy Justin where it hurts, in his home province of Quebec, where the government has come out swinging in support of British Columbia. The first and, to…
All that Fuel Just Sitting There Waiting to Burn
It was so much easier when you could think of the Arctic as white, covered in a crisp layer of snow and ice. Today you have to think green as…
Saturday Photo: Trying to Get a Jade Plant to Bloom in a Difficult World
There are some plants I can get to bloom year after year. The various sorts of Christmas cactus are one, and recently I’ve been having pretty good luck with hibiscus.…
Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Simon Enoch offers his take on Saskatchewan’s latest budget – including what little the Saskatchewan Party has learned, and how much it’s…
Law 599 Crisis Comms pro tip, free of charge
At @UCalgary @UCalgaryLaw, I generally teach my students that, when the judge wants you in court, it’s not always a good idea to be photographed smoking cigars with a bunch…
An Exelent Compromise…..
British Columbia premier, John Horgan, has an eminently reasonable solution to Justin Trudeau’s and Rachel Notley’s pipeline fetish – refine that cruddy bitumen here and sell it on the Canadian…
Last Gasps?
Some days, writing this blog is quite easy, as I only have to turn to the letters page of my newspaper to aggregate the well-considered thoughts of my fellow Canadians.…
Trump Reich: Michigan embraces Nazi policy
Seriously: they want to put yellow stars on the identification of “non-citizens.” In other news, Holocaust Remembrance Day happened this week. Story here. Excerpt here: A pair of House bills…