Musical interlude
The War on Drugs – Thinking of a Place
November 2018
Michael Harris: Why Justin Trudeau Should Win The Election
It's been three tough years. Demolishing Stephen Harper's grim legacy took longer, and was probably harder than Justin Trudeau had imagined.And no prime minister has ever been attacked as viciously…
Benefits of Using an Infrared Heater for Home Heating
Infrared heaters have widely been in use for generations. Today they are used in most company buildings and homes. They operate either by gas or electricity as the power source.…
Road Trip – NaBloPoMo Day 2
I was on the road today. I got out early owing to the fact that the weather people said it *probably* wasn’t going to start sky-shiting until later in the…
The Liar Donald Trump And The Corruption Of The Cons
He's always been a liar. A firm believer in the old saying that a lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.But…
12 Years Left and Over $200B to Fund
We have less than 12 years left to kick the oil bums out. The oil bums have left us with hundreds of billions of dollars in liabilities, while claiming our…
Alberta Caught Red-Handed
Alberta would have a somewhat stronger case for bitumen pipelines and experts if it wasn’t for the government of Alberta, Conservative and NDP. First of all, they’re wastrels. For all…
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Book Review Adam Tooze. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World. Viking. New York. 2018 The global economic crisis is now more than a decade old, and…
The Power Of Lies
As the midterm elections come to an end, Paul Krugman writes that the Republicans are spouting what has become a cascade of lies: What are Republicans lying about? As I…
Worse Than We Thought
Yesterday, friend Mound posted a disturbing piece on the fact that the oceans have absorbed 60% more heat than expected. The implications for global warming are significant, and suggest, among…
Ford Takes on Bill 148: But There is Resistance
Photo by Fight for $15 When the Tories were elected to govern Ontario this past June, it was a day that many were both dreading and expecting. The Ontario government…
Understanding Québec solidaire’s electoral breakthrough
Photo by Québec solidaire Summing up the October 1st provincial election results, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, co-spokesperson of Québec solidaire, said it best: “the era of the two-party system is finished in…
Singh sings a sorrowful song.
New democrat leader Jagmeet Singh is not getting too much respect these days. And when he is not getting much respect from his own party; there is no reason for…
No One Hurt Because No One Was On The Bus
Have buses and the mindset behind them outgrown their use?
Donald Trump’s New And Disgusting Racist Ad
There are now just five days to go before the midterm elections, and Donald Trump has never felt so threatened.Polls suggest that he could lose control of the House and…
What’s scarier? A tiny of rump of ignored extremists, or an extremist majority government? Canada needs Proportional Representation!
Last week, I expressed alarm about the fact that 25,000 people voted for a known white nationalist in the Toronto mayoral election, representing 3.4% of the overall Toronto vote. If…
Niv, 1 A bad, bad, bad, bad day.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/31/five-countries-hold-70-of-worlds-last-wildernesses-map-reveals One of those countries is Brazil. but its Amazon rain forest has been declared as a target for the new, very fascist, ruler of Brazil. As well, the U.S.…
NaBloPoMo Day 1
Okay. I’m going to attempt to do NaBloPoMo, which doesn’t actually have anything to do with blowing anything, no matter how it may look from the weird initialism. Acronym. Word…
Doug Ford and the Con Carbon Gang Dumbos
He's the self appointed leader of the anti-carbon tax gang. And Doug Ford has been on a rampage recently.Yesterday he officially killed Ontario's cap-and-trade program, while his ghastly Cons sang…
Sullenberger Strikes Back
A genuine American hero, Charles “Sully” Sullenberger, the soft-spoken pilot who landed US Airways flight 1549 on the Hudson River, is taking off the gloves. In an op-ed in The…