Photos From Vankleek Hill’s 2018 ‘Festival of Flavours’
. Photos from Vankleek Hill’s ‘2018 Festival of Flavours‘ . .
September 2018
Let Me Run This Through My B.S. Remover
I read a tweet from David Suzuki today. He wrote that we’re not even keeping up with man-made greenhouse gas emissions. No, we’re steadily falling further and further behind. That…
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward tops the list of Edmonton’s Best-Selling Books
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended September 9, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Red light cameras for Collingwood?
A small but very irate number of residents have broached with me the topic of installing red light cameras at Collingwood’s traffic intersections. I hadn’t really thought about it –…
The Costliest Lesson in Buyer’s Remorse in Human History
Is the hyper-expensive F-35 stealth light bomber a lemon? Have America and her allies been cajoled into buying a dud? Could just be. When Lockheed began beating down doors to…
A Dying Canadian’s Unconscionable Predicament – Die Now or Face An Anguished Death Later
Our supposedly progressive prime minister (hint: he’s not, not even close) didn’t like the Supreme Court of Canada’s per curiam ruling on the right to die with dignity in the…
Are the Democrats and America’s Jews Headed for Divorce from Netanyahu’s Israel?
Put it down to irreconcilable differences. The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, claims that, “Netanyahu is accelerating the pace of his country’s estrangement from everyone but ethnocentric and anti-democratic nationalists and xenophobes.”…
New Dark Ages are here!
Just delivered to Daisy’s office a minute ago – pre-release copies of my newest (and ninth) book, New Dark Ages!
Fascism for the 21st Century
We wince a bit when someone calls a modern leader a “fascist.” It can bring up comparisons with Hitler and that sort of thing. It’s considered a bit underhanded even…
Generation Screwed
Many of us, a large majority, have lived most or all of our lives in the era of neoliberalism that was ushered in by Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney, the faithful…
Monbiot’s "One Planet Living"
On the face of it, it sounds incredibly logical. Mankind, and all the other species with which we share this Earth, must adjust to live within the limited boundaries of…
Keesmaat’s response to changing the size of Toronto council: break up the country!
She picks a fight with everyone, all the time. Not the kind of mayor we need.
Notwithstanding, stayed
Good. I’m happy. A smaller Toronto city council isn’t a bad thing. And the notwithstanding clause dropping off the table is a very good thing. #Topoli #onpoli #Cdnpoli — Warren…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Stephen McBride offers some important lessons on austerity from government responses to the 2008 economic crisis. – Zoe Drewett reports on the rising…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday September 19, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. Many custody disputes in Ontario family law matters are now…
Kick out the jams, mother%™¶ª! The MC5, tonight!
Seeing these geniuses – or what’s left of ’em, anyway – tonight with Lala. Amped.
The Incredible Failure of the Failing Andrew Scheer
As we all know Andrew Scheer and his ghastly Cons try to use the word "fail" as many times as possible when talking about Justin Trudeau.In what is clearly a…
The Cons and the Defector Who Came In From the Not So Cold
For almost two days, Leona Alleslev and Andrew Scheer were the toast of Con Canada. And what a show it was.I mean just LOOK at them. Have you ever seen…