The Washington Post carried this message of warning from Steve Bannon in February, 2017: Bannon dismissed the idea that Trump might moderate his positions or seek consensus with political opponents.…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Shaun Richman reviews David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs – including the inevitable inference that there needs to be some means for people to be…
Justin Trudeau has made it clear that he’s working for the middle class. Ed Broadbent writes that Trudeau should be working much harder to raise the prospects of the poor:…
Global consumption of fossil fuels – oil and coal – rebounded last year. It’s enough that fossil energy giant, BP, called it “a big step backwards” and warned that the…
What role did Victoria’s AggregateIQ and perhaps Cambridge Analytica play in the Trudeau Liberals’ come-from-behind triumph to majority in the 2015 federal election? An article in the National Observer suggests…
In one of my last posts I ran this photoshop creation I made, to represent what many millions of Canadians would probably love to see happen to Donald Trump.Especially after…
Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, hates NAFTA. He thinks it a scam perpetrated without the consent of the peoples of Canada, America and Mexico by their political bosses. Monbiot especially detests…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday June 13, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. Many custody disputes in Ontario family law matters are now…
We interrupt this retroactive travel diary to wish me a happy birthday. I have been alive on this planet for 57 years. I am now, as they say, “pushing 60”.…
After our last lovely hot breakfast at the Beacon Inn, we hit the road to downtown Victoria. It was much closer than we imagined! It’s amazing how quickly you are…
If you’ve ever wondered about the history of the land you’re on then this website (and app) is for you! The website Native-Land collects historical data from around the world…
Somebody else cares! There is help on the horizon. Canada’s political parties have been ground down to unimportant collections of non-entities over the past 40 years. And it seems that…
Justin Trudeau is the luckiest guy alive. Consider the evidence. He starts slipping in the polls. Along comes Donald Trump to the G7 and insults him and Canada and makes…
@realDonaldTrump has now ensured @JustinTrudeau’s re-election effort will be so easy, so effortless, Trudeau can be in a coma for the entire writ period and still win in a landslide.…
First, I would be remiss if I didn’t post Gallant’s second video in which he spends a little over eight minutes complaining about anti-racists and how ARC treats him while…
Photo: Angela Pitt and Wildrose Party leader Brian Jean during the 2015 election. It looks like Angela Pitt is in trouble. The first-term MLA from Airdrie is facing a stiff…
Boxed-in cats.
https://earthgauge.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/mixdown-18-06-11.mp3 A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Join me here every week or subscribe to the podcast. On the show this…
https://photos.app.goo.gl/mv5FYNM46BRJyA4E9 Google AI seems to have done a pretty fair job on curating and editing these photos. I think I may have had a hand in some filters on iPad,…
Do you ever wonder how close the United States may be to abandoning democracy? Do you ever wonder what that might mean for Canada? Are you familiar with the word,…
