White supremacist banshee breaks law
Check this out. The Anti-Racist Collective has tracked down a shocking video – and it clearly shows Faith Goldy (and others) passing around an AR15 with a clip in it.…
September 2018
Farber: the Premier must denounce this white supremacist, clearly
From my brother of another mother, Bernie Farber, in the Star: It was Doug Ford’s “Trump moment.” We all remember the day after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville and…
Keesmaat likes to talk a lot about affordable housing
…when, at her last job, she didn’t build a single thing. And, now her “plan” is being mocked by the people who actually build housing. And check this out: Now,…
UCP leader discovers there’s no affliction more persistent than an outbreak political theatrics in India
Jason Kenney’s mid-September sojourn to India with a couple of his United Conservative Party sidekicks was pure political theatre, likely aimed as much at the Alberta Opposition leader’s real main…
Episode 20: Five Months until Alberta’s Next Election
This week Dave and Ryan are joined by our friend Kate Kerber as we discuss how Rachel Notley‘s New Democratic Party government is doing and what the NDP might need…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats at play.
Donald Trump and the Hypocrisy of Brett Kavanaugh
He's a sexual predator himself, a dirty old man who once boasted of grabbing women by their private parts.He's a grubby lowlife who celebrated the arrival of his youngest son…
Meet Byel
Nation, allow me to introduce you to Byel Doromal. Byel is a family friend – a Philippine national, married, with three daughters. Byel first arrived in Canada on New Year’s…
Meet Byel
Nation, allow me to introduce you to Byel Doromal. Byel is a family friend – a Philippine national, married, with three daughters. Byel first arrived in Canada on New Year’s…
Meet Byel
Nation, allow me to introduce you to Byel Doromal. Byel is a family friend – a Philippine national, married, with three daughters. Byel first arrived in Canada on New Year’s…
I’m drawing the line at Kevlar vests, however
That’s a first. I come out of @corus HQ and there’s a few dozen Faith Goldy nutbars protesting the debate. They see me, start booing and screaming. A kind @TorontoPolice…
The Kingsway Cases at the LPAT: An (Unrepresented) Party’s Observations, Part 4: The Strong Case Against a Casino
If matters leading our municipal Council to decide to throw away a decade’s worth of direction for a new arena as articulated in our land use planning and economic development…
Omission of truth becomes a lie
In real terms, the BC government’s natural resource revenues in 2018 were 37% of the level in 2001, despite material increases in output.
The New Language of Resource Exploitation: From Staples Dependency to Extraction Empire
“Staples dependency” we know from Innis onwards. It can mean reliant upon, dependent on, the export of staples, and permits of a staple theory of linkages as economic theory. It…
The Kingsway Cases at the LPAT: An (Unrepresented) Party’s Observations, Part 3: Valid Appeals and Municipal Contempt for a Public Process
I’ve been overdue with my updates on my experiences with the LPAT. After a summer of inaction, a lot has been going on lately, so I’m hoping to add my…
Sept.25: A bad, bad, bad, bad day.
Not a good blog today. I guess I’m out of sorts because of our Mickey Mouse provincial election here in New Brunswick.___________________________________________________________ http://www.voltairenet.org/article202998.html This is a much bigger story than…
How Australia can Make Roads Safer
Since roughly WWII we’ve been designing roads and streets for only one purpose: the automobile. Before the 20th century roads were designed to move people around efficiently, today roads are…
Where Michael Moore Dares to Venture
Like many, I have snapped up Trump tell-all books such as Michael Wolffe’s “Fire and Fury,” Isikoff and Corn’s “Russian Roulette,” and Bob Woodward’s “Fear: Trump in the White House.”…