Will 2018 Be the Year That Reality Sinks In?
It’s in the news, daily. It’s everywhere. Heatwaves sweeping the entire northern hemisphere. Wildfires even up inside the Arctic Circle. Floods and flash floods. Drought and flash droughts. People dying…
2018
July 28:The Daily Greed
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/heat-warning-change-environment-canada-1.4762636 Note the death rate in BC from heat. Gee! It’s lucky climate change isn’t happening.______________________________________________________________ New Brunsick – star player in the latest crisis. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/frequently-asked-questions-about-blue-green-algae-1.4763291_______________________________________________________________Climate change ain’t happenin’? Then…
Vancouver Park Board to undergo ‘colonial audit’
Board also looking to formally apologize to Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations Jessica Kerr Vancouver Courier July 24, 2018 Vancouver Park Board is looking to formally apologize to Musqueam,…
Welcome To Chaos
On Friday Doug Ford threw a bomb into Toronto’s City Hall. He announced that he was reducing the size of the city council from 44 members to 25 — during…
Saturday Photo: Chicory on a Hot Summer Morning
The rain has finally begun to fall again a little, but for about three weeks we had very little, and only the hardiest of flowers were blooming in the fields.…
My Catholic Upbringing
It is a long time since I believed in Hell, yet the following scenes are eerily reminiscent of what the nuns used to warn would be our destination if we…
Horgan pays the price.
British Columbia premier John Horgan is paying his debts. He wanted to be premier and it cost him an accord with the BC Green party, headed by MLA John Weaver.…
Didn’t care or didn’t know? UCP MLAs endorse author of offensive social media posts for nomination
Well, that certainly didn’t take long! Mere hours after AlbertaPolitics.ca published its semi-satirical, semi-serious “Jimmy the Geek” Vegas odds piece about the potential for bozo eruptions among the current members…
Kheiriddin: Doug Ford’s Attack On Toronto Is About Defeating The Left
Conservative political pundit and talk show host Tasha Kheiriddin stated in a CBC social media live chat this evening, that she believes the move by Premier Doug Ford to reduce…
The Far-Right, Neo-Nazis, and Racists Running For Municipal Office…. So Let’s Have Some Fun With This
By this point in the evening a lot of people who monitor the far-right in Canada have noticed that Faith Goldy has submitted forms and is running for mayor of…
Musical interlude
The War On Drugs – In Chains
Doug Ford’s Plan To Fix Government – Kill Democracy
Doug Ford stood in front of cameras today, and used language I thought I would never see in Canada. Ford suggested that less democratic representation is needed to fix regional…
Earth Overshoot Day, 2018, in New York City
The hibiscus and the hummingbird are on display in Times Square to mark August 1, Earth Overshoot Day, 2018. It’s good to see that the world is finally coming to…
A State That Belongs to Only Some of its Citizens
Photo from Public Domain There is a form on the Israeli Interior Ministry’s website, where one can order duplicate and translated copies of a birth certificate. On that form is…
Israel Effectively Declares Itself an Apartheid State
Photo by Libertinus On July 19, Israeli lawmakers gave their final approval to the “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People” bill that unambiguously defines Israel…
A Real Eye-Opener. Man’s Rapacious Destruction of Our Oceans.
Think of it this way. When the world’s oceans die, we die. Life on Earth depends on the viability of our oceans. This graphic depicts what little wilderness remains of…
Keesmaat platform: vote for me and I’ll break up Ontario
Our very own social climber separatist. Secession. — jennifer keesmaat (@jen_keesmaat) July 27, 2018
WCAI Celebrate Apparent Hate-Motivated Assault and Threat in Toronto
On Monday July 23, a video was uploaded as a man harassed, assaulted, and threatened two families at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal: Today Lombray Ball, age 50, has been…