Musical interlude
Zuckerbaby – Andromeda
August 2018
The Day The Mobster Donald Trump Threatened Canada
Almost a week ago I looked at why the grubby Donald Trump was trying to sound like a gangster. And concluded it was because he was desperately afraid of going…
Next Time, Let’s Heed Precaution
The Trudeau government won’t like it. They’ll probably fight, fang and claw, to prevent it. The only problem for the federal government is that it’s the law of the land.…
Calculating the winners and losers in yesterday’s Trans Mountain Pipeline debacle
No doubt they were chuckling discreetly at Kinder Morgan headquarters in Houston yesterday as they counted up their additional spare change. They had, after all, just managed to sell off…
Time to walk away from Trump, Ministers Freeland and PM Trudeau
Social media these days goes very fast, as you know from reading Twitter. BLogs can seem a bit slow in that respect. By the time I post this.. it may…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Joesph Stiglitz writes that history has proven wrong the theory that the weak recovery from the 2008 economic crash was the result of…
Is Andrew Scheer Losing His Marbles?
I didn't get a chance to see Andrew Scheer's reaction to the court decision on the Trans Mountain pipeline until late yesterday evening.But when I did I was shocked, for…
Some Refreshing Leadership
Now that Canada’s plan to increase its greenhouse gas emissions and further threaten coastal waters has been dealt a massive blow by the Federal Court of Appeal, I suggest it…
Not A Good Day
Yesterday was not a good day for the Trudeau government. The Federal Court of Appeal shut down the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project. And word out of Washington is that the…
Restoring democracy in Toronto.
If you are not being sued by the Ford government in Ontario, you might already be suing it or hoping to sue. What is of particular concern at the moment,…
Trudeau and the Schoolyard Bully – Who Will Get Canada’s Lunch Money?
I spent some of the afternoon mulling over Maude Barlow’s contention that the loss of a formal trade treaty with America or, for that matter, America and Mexico, would be…
What a Perfect Day
For grifters, it’s something of a perfect day. First, Kinder Morgan (bastard offspring of Enron) hooks Canadian taxpayers into shelling out a 700 per cent windfall to KM shareholders for…
Federal Court Quashes Trans Mountain Expansion
Today I woke up to exciting news on an issue that all Greens, especially myself, have been concerned about for quite some time; the Federal Court of Appeals has quashed…
The Trans Mountain Pipeline and the Great Distraction
I haven't written much about pipelines because quite frankly I got pipelined out during the Harper years.And also because I have always considered the fuss over the Trans Mountain pipeline…
The Last Two Weeks. Where To Begin?
I was up at our cottage with my husband on the morning of August 16th when the phone rang. It was my sister. “Mom died!” She was crying and then…
WTF
The Ontario Liberal Party is running ads for Jennifer Keesmaat? Pardon? That’s against the law, folks.
Roll up the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner. Federal court halts the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project on the same day Kinder Morgan sells it to the Government of Canada.
Photo: A train of oil cars sits parked outside Jasper, Alberta, not far from the path of the current Trans Mountain Pipeline. What a day. This morning, the Federal Court…
Things that piss me off, today
Government Negotiations Do you think that it might have been wiser to wait for the federal court decision on the legality of the approval process used by the National Energy…