June 12: How to not give a damn…
Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 16h16 hours ago More PM Justin Trudeau of Canada acted so meek and mild during our @G7 meetings only to give a news conference after…
June 2018
They’re the Oldest Living Plant Life on Earth and They’re Dying
Some of them are believed to pre-date the Christian era. The oldest is thought to be 2,500 years of age. They’re Africa’s iconic Baobab trees and yet, after enduring centuries,…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew O’Hehir talks to Yanis Varoufakis about the impossibility of building shared prosperity on a foundation of consumer debt and financialization. And…
OLP: salvation is at hand
And, with her, we could have won. Here. Sandra Pupatello — who lost to Kathleen Wynne during the last provincial Liberal leadership race — is not ruling out another run,…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday June 12, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Do employees have different severance entitlements under the Employment Standards…
Andrew Scheer’s Phony Trumpling Capitulation
In my last post I looked at how hard it was proving for Andrew Scheer to end his treasonous campaign of cheerleading for Donald Trump, and undermining his own country.The…
The End of the Beginning of Digital Service Units
Balancing Users, Platforms, and Buy-in Strategies for National Digital Teams This week, digital HKS is partnering with Public Digital to convene digital services units from around the world. We will…
How Do You Get In A Fight With Canada?
So asks Seth Myers. To which he answers, “That’s like holding a grudge against a Golden Retriever puppy.” Or, to put it even more succinctly, Recommend this Post
Don’t mess with the Warren’s War Room™️
Calling all war roomers: I want to put together and deploy an oppo file on Messrs. Kudlow and Navarro. Every scandal, every misstep, all of it. DM me. #cdnpoli #USPolitics…
a note about vancouver island
Vancouver Island has several regions, but the first division is between the south island and east coast, as distinct from the north island and west coast. The south island is…
An Unreliable Partner
Margaret MacMillan — one of our finest minds — writes in today’s Guardian that Canadians are bewildered: “Bewilderment. Fear. Anger. Hurt. Canadians today are struggling to understand what Donald Trump…
Being Lazy Doesn’t Mean Your a Bad Person
Too many of us look at others and think they are no-good lazy people. Think about the person living on the streets or a friend who never seems to be…
Look!
Mango Mussolini displays certificate confirming that he and his new friend are loathsome, despicable abusers of human rights and all that is decent.
vancouver island day three: sidney and saanich peninsula
The B&B had self-serve coffee starting earlier than breakfast, but for guests whose internal clocks are on eastern time, it was a long and painful wait! I watched the clock…
From Teddy’s ‘Bully Pulpit.’
Trust President Donald Trump to get it wrong. He thinks of President Theodore Roosevelt’s White House ‘bully pulpit’ as a place to bully other world leaders. What Roosevelt saw as…
We’re in Britain. Everyone here hates Trump, too.
So: .@SFHpunks offer Canada’s new national anthem: Donald Trump Is An Asshole! https://t.co/2le0cImh8b #cdnpoli #uspolitics #potus — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 11, 2018
Green Party of Alberta will choose a new leader in September 2018
Photo: Green Party of Alberta interim leader Coral Bliss Taylor. It’s too small to be a Green Wave, so let’s call it the Green Ripple. Last week, as Doug Ford…
New Democrats party and Kenney cringes. It’s Pride Week in Edmonton.
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley was dancing up a storm in front of thousands of Edmontonians at the capital city’s Pride Festival Parade on Saturday. The annual march travels down Whyte…
Karma Klaims Kudlow
Maybe the G7 summit was too much for Trump’s economic advisor, TV’s Larry “Wrong Way” Kudlow. Maybe it was hitting the Sunday morning talk shows to slam Justin Trudeau’s impertinence…