July 2018

July 19:Do you know what a bagman is?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/18/sweden-calls-for-help-as-arctic-circle-hit-by-wildfires https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/18/canadas-high-arctic-glaciers-at-risk-of-disappearing-completely-study-finds http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-heat-waves-1.4751633 Now think for a moment. What can be the mentality be of billionaires who insist we must keep producing and using fossil fuels? (Yes, I know Trump…

Cabinet quickie roundup

It’s a not-bad shuffle, as shuffles go. Quickie hot Kinsellatakes™: Melanie Joly to Tourism: A big demotion, although she probably doesn’t even know it. She was a disaster at Heritage.…

What Is At Stake

Mark Kingwell writes in The Globe And Mail that now is the time to impeach Donald Trump: Historian Simon Schama, articulating the thoughts of many, called it “Trump’s Neville Chamberlain…

Blessed Are The Benighted

My good friend Dave in Winnipeg often rails sardonically against the twin curses of intelligence and critical-thinking. If you start the following video at about the 50-second mark, you’ll see…

Wednesday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Osmond Chui writes that Australia is no exception to the trend of modest economic growth being entirely hoarded by the wealthiest few, while…

Treaty 8

Report of Commissioners for Treaty No. 8 WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, 22nd September, 1899. The Honourable CLIFFORD SIFTON, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, Ottawa. SIR, — We have the honour to transmit…

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