Oh, That Kind of Lawyer. Cohen Seems Ready to Roll.
It was reported last week that long time Trump fixer, Michael Cohen, was changing lawyers. At first word was that he wanted something a little downscale, less costly, someone who…
June 2018
Is the Mooch Staging a Comeback
CBS News is reporting that Sarah Sanders Huckabee or Huckabee Sanders, whatever, and her understudy, Raj Shah, are looking to bail out of the asylum known as Donald Trump’s White…
Paris!
Ms Soapbox and her daughter have gone to Paris for a week. Take good care of the province and the country until we get back. What pops into your mind…
Homophobe Bill Whatcott Charged Under Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code
Looks like Bill Whatcott is having some legal problems: Whatcott provides more details on his own web forum regarding the charges: The response from Whatcott's supporters was as to be…
Now Even American Networks Are Using The C-Words
Will wonders never cease? For more analysis, watch this, from Global National. Start at the 11:30 mark: Recommend this Post
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Claire Connelly calls out the perennial right-wing spin that there’s always money available for corporations or the security state, but that anything…
Happy Father’s Day Everyone (who qualifies, that is)
Ever notice how nobody says “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” in a flattering, positive sense. But if your kid, just once, is on the run from the…
Greater Sudbury Missing the Mark on Complete Streets
Complete Streets are a hot topic right now. The provision of Complete Streets in a community is usually considered part of a strategy for attracting and retaining creative class employees…
The Crunch Is Upon Us
This is an Age of Anxiety. Larry Elliott writes that it’s not hard to understand why: The past decade has seen the biggest financial crisis in a century, the biggest…
Did Brown lay the table for Ford?
The only newspaper in Ontario that gave a real damn about the lynching of conservative leader Patrick Brown back in January was his hometown Barrie Advance. It is owned by…
New Report on the State of our Democracy.
The Samara Centre for Democracy interviewed 54 former MPs from the last Parliament about their experience in Ottawa and found many of them questioning the very purpose of being an…
vancouver island day eight: nanaimo, qualicum beach, parksville
Our final full day on the island, we did a little of everything. We drove through different areas of Nanaimo, went into more bookstores, went food shopping to make a…
If F. W. de Klerk’s apartheid comparison to the fossil fuel economy is OK, why is David Suzuki’s slavery analogy an outrage?
A speech in Calgary last week by the last white president of South Africa in which F. W. de Klerk suggested the challenges faced by Alberta in the waning days…
Just Say "No" to You Know Who
An Ipsos poll released Friday finds that 70 per cent of Canadians intend to boycott American goods. Seventy per cent of Canadians say they will start looking for ways to…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The OECD examines the generational implications of inequality and poverty – with the descendants of poor children in some countries requiring up to…
This, From The ‘Greatest Country On Earth’
I guess when you live in that bastion of democracy, the United States of America, one must be mindful, shall we say, an unwritten set of rules: Rob Rogers has…
Paris, 4:27
So. Lisa Kinsella takes a picture of French riot police watching over an impromptu rave on Rue de Varenne. Cool town.