This kind of deep thinking is why you guys keep me around
If self-help books worked, they wouldn’t need to print so many self-help books. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 7, 2018
August 2018
J. Trudeau Memorial Pipeline Cost Soars Another Two Billion
The sketchy Texas outfit, Kinder Morgan, has come clean on the estimated costs of the new TransMountain pipeline. Kinder Morgan Canada says expanding the Trans Mountain pipeline could cost the…
August 7:Good News….seems to be history.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-fake-disgusting-media-rhetoric-dangerous-violence-1.4772658________________________________________________________________http://thesaker.is/erratic-empire-downfalling/________________________________________________________________ http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/world-hothouse-report-1.4775649_______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/iran-braces-for-new-round-of-us-economic-sanctions Trump has now declared war on the world – including long-time allies like Canada and the European Union. At this stage, it’s an economic war. But it…
Is Anybody Listening?
The Achilles Heel of Canada’s and other governments’ climate change plans is that they’re working with political numbers, a failure that guarantees gestural responses at best. Trudeau can read. He…
Another Day at Grifter Central
Over the past week we’ve taken a look at Cyprus, the haven for dirty rubles, the Bank of Cyprus, its former co-chair now Trump commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, his curious…
Sometimes you need to look up.
The answer might be there.
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of August 7, 2018
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of August 7, 2018. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jessica Corbett writes that Earth’s atmospheric carbon concentration has reached levels not seen in 80,000 years, while Jonathan Watts reports on a…
Wow. This Means More Than We Think.
The recent Saudi threat against Canada should be seen as an opportunity to back out of the contentious General Dynamics deal. Will Trudeau have the resolve to make this happen?
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of August 7, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 7, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Prince’s estate files lawsuit over cybersquatting of prince.com U.K. Courts Reduce Their…
Sometimes It Rhymes
William Ruckelshaus knows something about desperate presidents. He was Elliot Richardson’s deputy during the Saturday Night Massacre. He writes in The Washington Post: In October 1973, Nixon ordered Attorney General…
I Don’t Know Why
… but I never tire of watching lunatics like Jim Bakker and his brethren. Guess I am just desperate in these trying times for some comic relief, and believe me,…
The Day Saudi Arabia Declared War on Canada
I was relaxing in the little park next to the marine police station, on the last day of a long sweltering weekend, when Callum came running up with the shocking…
What a web we Weaver!
We have struggled with this for a couple months. What the heck is BC green party leader John Weaver’s problem with the liquified natural gas (LNG) proposal for British Columbia?…
My new initiative
Today I announced my candidacy in the District of North Vancouver for election to SD44. The website normfarrell.ca provides details. Thanks to the many people who’ve already expressed support.
Bright and breezy days go dark
The province now won’t admit that solar power potential is huge and economical. If they did, voters would wonder why BC Hydro is borrowing $11 billion, destroying valuable farmlands and…
Soldiers of Odin Outnumbered in Nanaimo
Yesterday the Soldiers of Odin acted as “security” in an effort to intimidate homeless people living in Discontent City in Nanaimo: Please be careful #Nanaimo friends. The Soldiers of Odin…
KINSELLACAST 25: Warren on Trudeau and the Danforth – and Lisa on being a single welfare Mom
Better late than never! The segment with Lisa is something. Listen in.
How I helped Apple become a $1 trillion company
In between the increasingly deranged rants from the orange menace to the south, you may have heard last week that Apple (the company, not the fruit) has become the first…
Those Saudi Bastards Have Crossed a Line This Time.
A UK-based, Arab website, alaraby.co.uk, links the group that posted this to the Saudi royal court. A verified Saudi Twitter account curating infographics for the kingdom has kicked up a…