When Trump Tear Gassed Women and Kids
I’ve experienced tear gas only once, in nuclear, biological and chemical warfare training. It’s an experience I’d never want to repeat although what I got was probably a low-grade gas.…
November 2018
Climate Change. America’s Military versus Donald Trump.
Donald Trump can’t stop bleating how much he loves America’s military. Odd how he doesn’t want to do anything about one of the greatest threats to US military readiness. The…
Eating Ourselves to Extinction?
It’s the combined effort of 130 national academies of science and three years in the making. The report from the Interacademy Partnership warns that humans are literally eating ourselves to…
port hardy day one: perfect fish and chips, bad movers, wild wildlife
Coming to you live from my own desk and my own computer, from internet in our own place — after my first full night’s sleep in ten days. Yesterday was…
Caroline Mulroney And The Day The Dream Died
It was supposed to be a political fairy tale. Caroline Mulroney, the daughter of Brian, joining the Ford regime.And on her way to one day being crowned prime minister.But sadly…
Eating OFF the Hill: Everything is small at Pudgyboy’s but the price and the wait
The south-east corner of Bank and Macleran in Ottawa’s Centretown has been somewhat of a deathspot for reasturants. I’ve lost track of the food spots that have come and gone…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday November 29, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Trish Hennessy discusses the connection between child care deserts and child poverty, while pointing out the importance of eradicating both: While the…
A Sendup That Cuts To The Bone
Marie at A Puff of Absurdity recently posted on the dysfunction, debasement and corrosiveness that social media has wrought in human relationships. The following seems like an apt complement to…
Neither Wide Nor Deep
Amanda Simard — the sole Francphone in Doug Ford’s caucus — has left Ford Nation. It should come as no surprise. During the election campaign, Marin Regg Cohn writes, Ford…
Hate crime in Canada
As the Your Ward News hate trial is starting, this Statistics Canada finding on hate crime is revealing. And important. It’s not just Trump’s America. It’s happening here, too.
Thoughts from the road: General Motors, China and Alberta, a new landscape emerges from Monday’s dust
OTTAWA Now that the dust is settling from Monday’s announcement General Motors Corp.’s last auto assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont., will soon be closed, the emerging landscape is not promising…
I, Dinosaur.
While ruminating, the other day, over something brilliant to say about the pickle the politicians are in over the unkind machinations of General Motors, I was actually more concerned about…
Transit-First Pilot Project in Toronto a Success
Toronto is a city where the car reigns supreme and any suggestion of sharing the road is deemed to be a war on the car. It’s surprising then that last…
Joe Oliver and the Crazed Climate Change Deniers
I'll never forget how in the dying days of the sinister Harper regime, Joe Oliver, who was the finance minister, suddenly disappeared.And since the economy was threatening to collapse like…
Is Trump a Magnet for Scumbags?
The Miami Herald has an article on how Donald Trump’s current labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, intervened to quash a child prostitution investigation into Trump pal (and Bill Clinton and Prince…
What’s With Grewal?
Justin Trudeau is having trouble with an errant MP, a Grewal fellow who represents the riding of Brampton East. Raj Grewal has stepped down, sort of, somehow, citing personal issues…
Gordie
This was hard to read. Miss my brother.
The Browning of the Arctic
The Arctic has become increasingly less white as the Arctic sea ice melts, the tundra warms and the Greenland ice sheet retreats ever faster. In fact the Arctic is turning…
30 Minutes of FOMO a Day
We’ve heard that spending too much time on social media is detrimental to our mental health, and every year more evidence confirms that. Simply put, too much time Facebook, Twitter,…