Birds a feather, etc.
Judge Patrick Brown by his friends. Says plenty.
2018
The Parkland Kids Take On Donald Trump and the Gun Lobby
It was a day to remember. A day of extraordinary sights and sounds. Like Donald Trump being forced to listen to sobbing teenagers and the parents of their murdered friends.…
Joey Deluca, Leader of the WCAI, Is An Idiot In Two Acts
Really, I just felt that people would like a reminder.
Am I still standing with Patrick Brown? Read and find out…
I just got off the phone with my brother, a long time member of Ontario’s PC party. He wanted to know if, in light of recent revelations, I still supported…
In case you missed it … Conservatives are in the news, making sure today’s bad ideas are tomorrow’s horrible reality! For you!
PHOTOS: Former Canadian Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, now leader of the Conintern. (Photo: Remy Steinegger, Wikimedia Commons.) Below: Margaret Thatcher, just another moderate leader of the “centre right.” Dig…
Maia Caron’s Song of Batoche leads Audreys Books’ Edmonton Bestseller List for fiction this week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Feb. 18, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Patrick Brown, FINTRAC and that $375,000 seat raffle
Here. Read it. And if someone doesn’t take this to the police before the weekend, I’ll be amazed.
Why Black Panther’s Wakanda Is the Black Utopia We’ve Been Waiting For
Wakanda, the advanced fictional East African nation in Marvel Studios’ Black Panther film, is the the Black utopia imagined by the African diaspora and its allies since the trans-Atlantic slave…
Our fight against that neo-Nazi hate rag
Story link is here, and a bit of it is below. Meanwhile, Lisa will be speaking tomorrow night at an anti-hate forum being led by a great leader in the…
‘By That Logic, We All Go to Hell Together’: Mark Jaccard on Trudeau’s Pipeline Talking Points
Mark Jaccard has seen it all before. Over the decades, the leading energy economist from Simon Fraser University has watched as government after goverment pledge lofty climate targets and proceed…
Reading as a forgotten art
Earlier this month (February, 2018), the Globe & Mail published an essay by author Michael Harris titled, “I have forgotten how to read.” In it, he recounted how he recently…
Monbiot – The Town that Discovered a New Medicine for What Ails Its People.
The Guardian’s George Monbiot has a look at how the town of Frome, Somerset, managed to slash its emergency room admissions by tackling loneliness and isolation. This week the results…
Swindled. How Worried People in America and Elsewhere Were Conned into Faux Populism
Donald Trump’s die hard supporters still believe he’s a populist who will deliver them from the evils of globalism. He’s not. He’s a swindler and the Gullibillies are his lawful…
The NYT Asks: What Does Real Populism Look Like?
The term “populism” has been smothered in negative connotations lately as though it is the preserve of sketchy characters like Donald Trump or Victor Orban. Yet theirs is a perversion…
Earthgauge News – Feb. 19, 2018
Edition #10 of the Earthgauge News podcast for the week of Feb. 19, 2018 A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Join…
Earthgauge News – Feb. 5, 2018
Edition #9 of the Earthgauge News podcast for the week of Feb. 5, 2018. A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Join…
Trans Mountain Pipeline: Politics With a Purpose
Can We Build and Operate a Sustainable Pipeline? I am very much in favour of the Kinder Morgan TransMountain pipeline project. As an Albertan, and therefore the owner of the…
Trans Mountain Pipeline: Politics With a Purpose
Can We Build and Operate a Sustainable Pipeline? I am very much in favour of the Kinder Morgan TransMountain pipeline project. As an Albertan, and therefore the owner of the…
On Energy & First Nations, politicians want to have their cake and eat it too
Jonathan Ramos cartoon Canada can fight climate change and build more climate-ravaging pipelines. First Nations’ rights should be respected – just not at the expense of these pipelines, dams and…