On Sir John A., and Sir John A. statues
From next week’s Hill Times column, which I’m still trying to cobble together, like a monument of sorts: If you disagree , a challenge. Imagine, for a moment, you are…
August 2018
The Dispute With Saudi Arabia
John Baird was on Saudi television yesterday, slamming the Trudeau government for its treatment of Saudi Arabia: “For Canada to treat a friend and ally this way has been incredibly…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Colby Smith writes about the changing role of public stock markets, which are serving primarily to allow already-wealth investors to cash out rather…
Musing on Maxime’s Maxims.
Maxime Bernier MP does not endear himself. It is not so much his conservatism as his libertarianism. I have met some pretty far right Quebec politicians before but Bernier likes…
Doomsayers, Chicken Littles and Conservatives get it wrong on the impact of minimum wage increases
Now there’s a surprise! Ontario’s minimum wage increase behaved exactly as predicted by most mainstream economists. That is, the 21-per-cent wage increase implemented by the former Liberal government that took…
The Tyee Nails It. The Tories Choose Sides.
The headline pretty much says it all: “The Conservatives Pick a Side — And It’s Saudi ArabiaParty allies with a government that beheads criminals and oppresses women and Shia Muslims.”…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Angled cats.
On Transgressions
I’ve been enjoying a podcast “This Jungian Life,” in which three Jungian analysts discuss various questions. This one in particular discusses the difference between sin and transgression, but then it…
There Really Is Life After Hate Part IV
Earlier today I received a link to an article published in the “National Post.” It is a piece written by Brag Galloway, the former head of the Canadian chapter of…
Free Inside: The Life and Work of Peter Collins
available from leftwingbooks.net A combination of comics, political cartoons, illustrations, paintings, and essays on the Canadian prison system, ‘Free Inside: The Life and Work of Peter Collins’ is 184 full-colour…
The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements
available from leftwingbooks.net The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of 2017 linger, but so do those of the passionate anti-fascist protestors who risked their…
August 14:The Lunatics are in charge of the asylum…….
https://countercurrents.org/2018/08/14/human-extinction-by-2026-a-last-ditch-strategy-to-fight-for-human-survival/ Of course, all them there thousands of scientists ain’t real smart like our irvings and the editors of the irving press is._______________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/13/us-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-climate-change-environmentalists_____________________________________________________________http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-economy-global-1.4780544___________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/aug/13/heat-next-big-inequality-issue-heatwaves-world__________________________________________________________ https://countercurrents.org/2018/08/13/mendacious-mainstream-presstitutes-ignore-huge-carbon-debt-horrendous-hazard-response-debt-disasters-are-not-natural/_____________________________________________________________ http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/activist-communiqu%C3%A9/2018/08/ford-attacks-poor-further-cuts-social-assistance_______________________________________________________________ Our local newspapers in New…
Corbella Column Pulled
This morning The Calgary Herald published a story by Licia Corbella, entitled "Family of jailed Saudi blogger angry over Trudeau". In it Corbella criticized government's twitter diplomacy efforts in the…
Corbella Column Pulled
This morning The Calgary Herald published a column by Licia Corbella, entitled “Family of jailed Saudi blogger angry over Trudeau”. In it Corbella criticized government’s twitter diplomacy efforts in the…
It’ll Be Over Before You Know It – Unless It Isn’t. The Big Heat is Coming.
Climate change is a major cause in the severe weather events that have set in almost everywhere around the globe. “A” major cause but there are others. ENSO, the el…
Baird Roars from Riyadh
Former foreign affairs minister, John Baird, is in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he took the opportunity to smear Justin Trudeau. Thanks, John. John Baird appeared on Saudi state TV over…
Whytecliff Park with Sunrays
I have been playing around with Luminar photo editor and I think the the Sunrays filter is interesting. Whytecliff Park with Sunrays Whytecliff Park without Sunrays What do You think?
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday August 14, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Do employees have different severance entitlements under the Employment Standards…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Humberto DaSilva comments on the need to recognize that it’s the distortion of the political system by the wealthy that’s left most…
The World Has Changed
Paul Koring writes that Canadians got a rude awakening last week: Their beloved country doesn’t matter much, or at least not as much as they like to think. Mexico and…