Another Climate Change Victim – America’s National Parks
East of Los Angeles, about a third of the way between LA and Phoenix, Arizona within the Mohave Desert lies the iconic Joshua Tree National Park. It is named for…
September 2018
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 1
One of the fun things about working with software I wrote myself is that I get to try new things. For example, instead of creating a course simply by filling…
Conveniently Ignoring History
While I am sure there are some interests within Canada who will applaud Justin Trudeau’s latest effort at placating Donald Trump, I am not one of them. As history well…
Can Washington Get the Answers Ottawa Won’t Give British Columbia?
It’s not just coastal British Columbians who are fed up with being stonewalled by the federal government over the hazards of dilbit spills. So is the neighbouring state of Washington…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday September 25, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise…
The limits of renewable energy and the case for degrowth
Photo from Pixabay The energy transition is the focus of much discussion. To read the accounts in the mainstream media, one gets the impression that renewable energy is being rolled…
The Donald in Wonderland: Down the Financial Rabbit Hole With Trump
Photo from Public Domain Once upon a time, there was a little-known energy company called Enron. In its 16-year life, it went from being dubbed America’s most innovative company by…
He Doesn’t Know Much At All
Over the weekend, Faith Goldy attended Ford Fest for the sixth time. She gained notoriety by appearing on the Neo-Nazi website Storm Trooper and Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media. After supporting…
No, Dougie isn’t done.
One of the Toronto Star’s better political writers wrote last week that Doug Ford’s motive (for interfering in Toronto’s civic election) might not be pique. That could be right. Doug…
Jen Keesmaat, limousine leftie
Fundraising at super-super-exclusive clubs that costs thousands and thousands to join: say one thing, do another. That’s @jen_keesmaat #topoli #onpoli pic.twitter.com/gujWNPV2Qa — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 25, 2018
Faith Goldy Display’s Her Understanding of Gun Safety At Roger Stone’s and Milo Yiannopoulos’ Discount "Eyes Wide Shut" Party
So on Monday Doug Ford was forced to comment on his encounter with Faith Goldy and her entourage of neo-fascists…. er…. fine, upstanding, totally having loads of sex with ALL…
This is how it is done
There were many good things about this day, but none so good as seeing a white supremacist banshee ordered removed by a dignified black female MC – and to see…
Monday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Evelyn Forget discusses the international outrage at the Ford PC’s cancellation of a basic income pilot. And Paul Waldeman writes about Republicans’ shock…
Israel’s Anti-Semitism Smear Campaign
Photo by U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv Donald Trump is devoted to his bottom line and to a belief in his own greatness. Beyond that, he has no fixed convictions. He…
Is the Conservative Party of Canada Racist?
Sadly, yes. If you haven’t noticed, here’s something that should startle you into realizing every wing of it associates with Nazis, and talks about limiting immigration as a primary platform…
Now Can We Call Doug Ford A Fascist?
As you know I like to portray Doug Ford as a political ape, a brutish demagogue drunk on power who is leading Ontario to disaster.But now I think I may…
Man with scythe
# Man with scythe Maybe late 50’s, early 60’s, after we had moved to the Queens Ave house, I would walk along Queens Ave to Queens Place and down that…
Pleasing Words Mean Nothing
Unless they are in the thrall of rabid partisanship, nice hair, sunny smiles or pleasing but empty rhetoric, most people, I suspect, would agree that the Trudeau government has been…