“Wasn’t That a Party?”
The Rovers got it wrong when they wrote a song about the party. It was certainly not the whiskey or the gin that is doing in the liberal party. It…
2018
November 12th, 1918
“If the Allies at the peace table at Versailles had not imagined that the sweeping away of long-established dynasties was a form of progress, and if they had allowed a…
Considering Carpay’s Folly: Why can’t Alberta Conservatives stay away from the Lake of Fire?
Why can’t Alberta conservatives learn to stay away from the Lake of Fire? This is a question for the ages. Latest to bathe in the scalding waves of the fiery…
Shifting the Climate Change Conversation from the Possible to the Necessary
Credit where it’s due: Earlier this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the federal plan to price carbon pollution for provinces like Ontario that refused to adopt provincial pollution pricing…
Two Minutes on Novermber 11th
Today is the 100th anniversary of the end of hostilities in the Great War. Canadians will mark this day as they have for the last century with two minutes* of…
Banned in Britain
British grocer, Iceland, released its Christmas ad/video. Iceland said it would remove palm oil from all of its own-brand foods, the first UK supermarket (a grocery store chain) to do…
Winter Sale at Kersplebedeb Leftwingbooks.net!
It’s that time of year again — Kersplebedeb Leftwingbooks.net has put dozens of books on special, for a limited time only! This is in addition to free shipping within North…
Could Have Been – NaBloPoMo Day 11
Whoops. So here’s the thing. NEW PHONE WHO DIS – yeah, I got a new phone. I thought everything was working but I was, as our friend Big T would…
Reasons To Dismantle The Current Party System
I've never been a big fan of the political party system. Partly because it's rare that party even remotely resembles the kind of perspective in government that I think we…
Remembrance Day 2018
It's Remembrance Day 2018, and a time to remember all those who fought and died for our country.A time to remember and celebrate my fighting grandfathers.Read more »
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Wade Davis comments on the ecological amnesia which has resulted in repeated cycles of extinctions: In three generations, a mere moment in…
On This Remembrance Day
Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of the end of The Great War. It was supposed to be the war to end all wars. And it’s true that, since 1945,…
In the grip of the political vortex.
Friends, foes and the pubic ask: “What the fuck is going on?” The answer is that nobody really knows. Did you see the polls before the American mid-term elections? You…
Amalgamation raises it ugly head again?
‘Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark sent a correspondence to Association of Municipalities Ontario members communicating the province is undergoing a regional review to take a broad look at…
Shy Crane
Sandhill Crane at the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary
U.S. midterm results remind how amoral and immoral conservatives are ruining it for the rest of us
Meme of Maclean’s cover this week Like most liberals, I was hoping for a giant blue tsunami to wash over the United States in this week’s midterm elections. While the…
Nov. 10: There’ll be bluebirds over…
…The white cliffs of Dover\Tomorrow, when the world is free.There’ll be love and laughterAnd peace ever afterTomorrow, just you wait and see. I was a very young child when I…