Climate Change Deniers Just Need Motivation
The COP24 UN Climate Change Conference 2018 in Katowice, Poland has opened with a direct call for immediate action on climate change. You’d think that 99% of scientists, years of…
December 2018
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dean Baker responds to attempts to paint inequality as an inevitable result of market forces by pointing out the choices being how our…
In cutting oil production, Rachel Notley gives a bravura performance – but will it play in Ponoka?
As expected, Premier Rachel Notley announced tonight that her government will order an oil production cut of 325,000 barrels a day, 8.7 per cent of the province’s production, to squeeze…
The Day the Market Broke
It finally happened. Someone broke the free market and the NDP government has to fix it. Weird, eh? Albertans spent the last few weeks being whip-sawed between companies (Cenovus) who…
a walk on the bay and a drive to nanaimo, plus photos of the rockies
I am in Nanaimo and will be in Campbell River, for two weeks of training. My former co-workers in the Mississauga Library are amazed and envious. Training in Mississauga ranged…
Alberta Has Declared Dean "Sovereign" Clifford To Be A Vexatious Litigant
I’ve occasionally wondered what the self-proclaimed Wolverdean has been up to since he was released from prison after having received a three years sentence on drugs and weapons charges related…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 12
The Badge API and Setting Up Badges This actually represents almost a week’s worth of work. You might ask, why am I working on something obsolete, like badges, using a…
How Many People Really Care?
Tony Burman writes that worldwide, democracy is dying: In October, a Stockholm-based international institute updated its report on “The Global State of Democracy” — a study of the performance of…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nick Saul calls out Doug Ford for undermining the dignity of lower-income Ontarians through barriers and cuts to needed benefits. And the…
The Mummy, the remake and the re-imagining
Nineteen thirty-two. The year Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, was published. The Great Depression was at its worst. Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Pres. Herbert Hoover to become the…
By your words, if not your deeds, we know who you really are
I’ve been studying and writing about the Racist Right for decades. When you start fulminating about “globalists” (meaning Jews), a “distinct culture” (meaning a white European culture) and a global…
Bush And Trump
No two men could be more different than George H.W. Bush and Donald J.Trump. Both were born into money, But that’s the only similarity they shared. So how, Max Boot…
If you cannot confront, confuse.
It is a desperation strategy. As one of the three programs fighting greenhouse gases in Canada, Ontario’s ‘Carbon Trust’ is certainly the zaniest. Where ‘Cap and Trade’ lets industries buy…
Backbenchers just decoration?
In this era of hyper-partisanship, can backbenchers have an effective voice, or have they been relegated to the role of a modern Greek chorus, anonymous figures advancing a pre-determined story?…
If Rachel Notley caps Alberta oil production tonight, how quickly will Jason Kenney change his tune?
If Rachel Notley uses the Alberta Government’s power to put a cap on oil production tonight, as she hinted she would do in a newspaper op-ed Friday, how long will…
Dec. 1:George H.W.. Bush – murderous friend of the wealthy.
A_A_A_AH….After two hours of writing, I hit some idiot button I wasn’t supposed to hit. And I lost everything. Damn! I wanted to get bigger print – and I got…
The Anthropocene and the New World
In recent decades all but the wilfully ignorant have had to face two facts: that climate change is taking place and that it is the result of what we humans…
Most Alberta oil is sheltered from the price discount
False oil price narrative used to scare Canadians into accepting Trans Mountain pipeline expansion By Robyn Allan in Analysis, Energy | November 26th 2018 Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is…
Friends Don’t Let Friends Smoke Corporate Weed
Canadian’s are going to be in for quite the ride as the greed driven governments and corporate opportunists manage to screw up one of the things that we were famous…
This Is What Ontario Has To Contend With
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