Conservative MP allows comment calling for Trudeau to be assassinated
Colin Carrie is, regrettably, still the Member of Parliament for Oshawa. The comment below has been on one of his videos. For days. Someone, I hope, has called the RCMP.…
October 2018
"A Smog of Complacency"
It used to be something that was mainly self-inflicted, smoking. Now it’s available to everybody through the magic of breathing. Air pollution is the “new tobacco”, the head of the…
Bummed Out? Join the Crowd.
We seem to be experiencing a bit of change. Not “we” as in Canadians. No, “we” as in the human race. Did you experience worry during a lot of the…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 7
OK, I’ve put on some Cœur de pirate and am set for today’s work. Feeds One of the key attributes of gRSShopper is the harvester. This application scans websites for…
Oct. 27: A new, gutter low.
I have just spent almost four hours writing my blog. And it disappeared! I have no idea why. This has happened a couple of times before but this time was…
in which baseball makes me pull an all-nighter: 2018 world series game 3
Last night, the Red Sox and Dodgers, and their fans, survived the longest World Series game in baseball history. Somehow I watched til the end and am still at work…
Andrew Scheer And His Cons Declare War on the Media
Almost as soon as Andrew Scheer became Con leader, I warned that there was something different and strange about him.And that politically speaking at least, he was more American than…
Donald Trump and the Growing Darkness
Afterwards just about everybody agreed, it wasn't one of Donald Trump's better days. He was up at 3:14 am angrily tweeting out this: Which let's face it, wasn't very Presidential.…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Moscrop discusses the need for a more meaningful definition of “progress” which doesn’t hand-wave away the long-term harms and risks created by…
Old White Men: Don’t Dare Call Them Terrorists
How would you label the Florida man who sent pipe bombs to anyone that opposes Trump and his cabal? Terrorists? MAGA-bomber? Disgruntled?
Banff Is For The Birds
While the family was picking out candy in the shop behind me, I was watching the birds, and the people go by. Then the birds started going, on the people.…
Trump’s Influence Creeps North
If you thought that Donald Trump’s war on the media couldn’t happen here, think again. Alex Boutilier writes in The Toronto Star: Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s office has revamped its…
Saturday Photo: Fall Bikes and Fighting the Good Political Fight
This is the time of year that the leaves fall–yesterday it was a veritable blizzard of yellow leaves on our street–but also time when bikes begin to look a little…
A government built on falsehoods.
Martin Regg Cohn of the Toronto Star described the Ontario conservatives as ageist the other day. He believes that Doug Ford’s Tories are the party of only the old people.…
The Bigot Bromance of Tommy Robinson and Ezra Levant
Two weeks ago I wrote about the bigot bromance between Tommy Robinson and Ezra Levant.And how Levant got so carried away with his slobbering love for Britain's most notorious hate…
Backstory from 2014 explains why Alberta car dealers might want to unseat the NDP
Many Albertans were shocked to learn last week that Opposition Leader Jason Kenney had promised an auto dealers association pouring money into a political action committee supporting his United Conservative…
Can a newspaper publish without a publisher?
A Toronto judge apparently thinks so. Disappointing. Betsy Powell’s story for the Star below. Judge rules there’s no evidence Your Ward News publisher threatened political strategists with death A Toronto…
MAGAbomber arrested
An older, white, Republican, Florida man was arrested in connection with failed bombing attacks on Democrats and other critics of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. The Suspected Serial Bomber…
Trump’s Going to Have Trouble Disavowing This Guy
Here’s Trump’s very own bomber-boy at, you guessed it, a Trump rally. Another Trump rally. Here’s Sayoc’s headshot without the lovely MAGA hat. Then there’s his van. Note the cheery…
Today’s Personal Epistemological Crisis
Today I’m having my own little epistemological crisis. My inspiration for these thoughts are a New York Times article talking about a theory on the recent pipe bombs sent to…