There Really Is Life After Hate Part II
On May 1, ARC published an article by a young woman who had been able to get out of the racist movement. Since that time she has been working diligently…
2018
Derek Fildebrandt joins separatist Freedom Conservative Party, remains a Giant Thorn in Jason Kenney’s side.
Photo: In happier times. Wildrose MLA Derek Fildebrandt joined Jason Kenney on the eve of his victory in the PC Party leadership race. (Photo credit: @pcyouthalberta on Twitter) Derek Fildebrandt…
July 19:Do you know what a bagman is?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/18/sweden-calls-for-help-as-arctic-circle-hit-by-wildfires https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/18/canadas-high-arctic-glaciers-at-risk-of-disappearing-completely-study-finds http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-heat-waves-1.4751633 Now think for a moment. What can be the mentality be of billionaires who insist we must keep producing and using fossil fuels? (Yes, I know Trump…
It’s Wildfire Season – Within the Arctic Circle
The rapidly warming – and drying – Arctic Circle is a terrific feedstock for wildfires. Tundra = frozen peat. Peat = fuel. A bit of lightning – voila. “This is…
Update: closed door meetings in Collingwood
Last November, I documented the unacceptably high number of closed-door (aka secretive) meetings held by this council since it took office. More than all of the past three councils combined.…
Would Impeachment Trigger a Breakdown of Civil Society in the US?
Insurrection has never been far from the surface since Donald Trump chose to seek America’s presidency. During the final stage of the election campaign he whipped up his Gullibillies with…
A Sign of the Times – Water and Arsenic
There’s your problem. 52 years worth of subsidence in California’s San Joaquin Valley. And there’s been another four decades of subsidence since this image. Now the water-strapped Central Valley has…
George Will: "This Sad, Embarrassing Wreck of a Man"
George Will takes his journalistic skinning knife to Donald Trump. It ain’t pretty. What, precisely, did President Trump say about the diametrically opposed statements by U.S. intelligence agencies (and the…
Cabinet quickie roundup
It’s a not-bad shuffle, as shuffles go. Quickie hot Kinsellatakes™: Melanie Joly to Tourism: A big demotion, although she probably doesn’t even know it. She was a disaster at Heritage.…
Doug Ford & The Ontario PC Govt hates a carbon tax? Propose a climate change plan
So Ontario’s Environment Minister Rod Phillips met with Canadian Environment Minister Catherine Mckenna. Minister Phillips was rather defiant in his tweet about never accepting Canada’s carbon tax put on the…
Vancouver & District Labour Council Endorse 3 Greens for Park Board
I am proud to receive the endorsement of the Vancouver & District Labour Council (VDLC) for my re-election to the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation. The VDLC also endorsed…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday July 18, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. Where all matrimonial issues have been resolved as at the…
What Is At Stake
Mark Kingwell writes in The Globe And Mail that now is the time to impeach Donald Trump: Historian Simon Schama, articulating the thoughts of many, called it “Trump’s Neville Chamberlain…
Bike Race Footage Shows Climate Change
By watching an annual bicycle race researchers found evidence of climate change. The Liège–Bastogne–Liège one day race has been running for decades and filmed since at least the 1980s. Because…
This is a hate crime
It is also an attempted murder on a man because he is a Muslim. It needs to be condemned by all, and pursued by police with a vengeance. Mohammed Abu…
Blessed Are The Benighted
My good friend Dave in Winnipeg often rails sardonically against the twin curses of intelligence and critical-thinking. If you start the following video at about the 50-second mark, you’ll see…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Osmond Chui writes that Australia is no exception to the trend of modest economic growth being entirely hoarded by the wealthiest few, while…
When “anti-social sewer rats” are black.
Only the Toronto Star would pay good money for a resident reporter as an apologist for Toronto’s black community. When an angry Toronto mayor John Tory recently called some thugs…
Treaty 8
Report of Commissioners for Treaty No. 8 WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, 22nd September, 1899. The Honourable CLIFFORD SIFTON, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, Ottawa. SIR, — We have the honour to transmit…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Enlightened cats.