A Marriage Made In Hell
Now this is really disturbing. The Verge reports that Jordan Peele and Buzzfeed combined forces to make a fake Public Service Ad: Using some of the latest AI techniques, Peele…
2018
Morrissey is a racist POS
I’ve destroyed any Smiths stuff I owned. I’m not going put money in the pocket of this racist, fascistic, bigoted piece of shit.
America Might Find Salvation in Satire
2016 witnessed the election of Donald Trump thanks in a large part to Russian meddling in the American democratic process. One of the most effective things that the Russians did…
You won’t read all about this one in the Toronto Star
Story by QP Briefing, which has been repeatedly breaking stories lately, here: When PC Leader Doug Ford was the only party leader who declined to participate in a Toronto debate…
A Confrontation of Confederation.
Even on a government VIP Airbus, a flight from Lima, Peru to Ottawa is over 11 hours. I did that type of flight more than once and they were always…
Reconciliation and truth-telling—acknowledging our colonial past
by Stuart Mackinnon on April 17th, 2018 at 6:20 PMStraight.com Last night, the Vancouver park board unanimously approved chair and commissioner Stuart Mackinnon’s motion directing staff to analyze the organization’s…
Austerity Looms As Parties Refuse To Come Clean on Autism Services in Ontario
(Current Platforms in Ontario’s 2018 Election Puts Province At Risk of a Credit Downgrade) Late Tuesday afternoon Moody’s downgraded the economic outlook for Ontario from stable to negative. In its…
Fear of Soviet bombers a concern during the Trans Mountain Pipeline debate of 1952
The current debate around the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline centres around political posturing, provincial jurisdiction, investment priorities, climate change, coastal protection and consent by First Nations communities, but when…
Mrs. Bush, RIP
Very sad. A dignified and decent person. K’porters will miss her. https://t.co/NYRwZUxeVG — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 17, 2018
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cuddling cats.
Pipeline Spills 290,000 Litres of Crude Oil Emulsion in Northern Alberta
A pipeline owned by Paramount Resources Ltd. released an estimated 100,000 litres of crude oil and 190,000 litres of produced water near Zama City, in northwest Alberta, according to an…
THE PATIENT AND FAMILY CV: A CONVERSATION CHANGER!
A couple of weeks ago, I was scanning my Twitter feed and this caught my attention: I’m attending a new endo clinic on Monday. As an endo patient I’m effectively…
Reconciliation and Truth-Telling: Acknowledging our Colonial Past
Here is my statement on presenting my motion at Park Board last night. The motion passed unanimously. Post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin famously asked in his 1897 painting: Where do we…
Canada Moving to Exempt Majority of New Oilsands Projects From Federal Assessments
Photo by Eryn Rickard After more than a year of public hearings, the federal government unveiled its new and improved environmental assessment legislation in February 2018 with much ado. But…
Hot? No, Cool.
Heating is a major contributor to modern energy consumption. We like to keep our homes, workplaces and business we attend nice and comfortable. That takes a lot of energy. Only…
Doug Ford, and why the populi like his vox
Abacus (with whom Daisy proudly does work, full disclosure, etc.) has a fascinating poll out about who is in the so-called Ford Nation, what they think, why they think it,…
April 17: Very, very bad…
We are trained by our news media and political leaders to see war as a virtuous excercise when it is practiced by us, evil when it is practiced by others.…
What Comey Left Out
Former FBI director, James Comey, has been getting well deserved comeuppance from the American left for not taking responsibility for the Hillary email fiasco, late campaign, that may have cost…
First Nations Leaders Pledge to Block Pipeline Expansion
Photo from RavenTrust.com At the 2015 Paris COP 21 climate conference Justin Trudeau pledged his newly-elected government would help “to limit global average temperature rise to well below 2 degrees…
"Here I Stand" – The Late Rafe Mair on an Independent British Columbia
Lawyer, Social Credit cabinet minister, columnist, broadcaster: Rafe Mair was one of those legendary firebrands British Columbia occasionally produces. Mair died in early October, 2017, seven months after he had…