jan 31: How we won the war – and lost the peace…
I’m a little groggy today. I was up until 4 in the morning watching for developments in Venezuela. There weren’t any – but here’s a story you probably won’t find…
January 2019
How To Fix Canadian News Media, The Neil Before Zod Method.
Take any media bailout money and use it to fully fund the CBC, especially CBC News. This will take the CBC out of the advertising market, giving a bigger piece…
The First Drip
As I wrote about last week, one of the first big events of this Federal election season is just around the corner: The Federal Budget. And with all big events…
Trudeau’s Empty Promises
He sure talks a good game but, time after time, Justin Trudeau’s promises prove empty. The numbers come from the latest climate pollution projections report,”Canada’s Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant…
The F-35 – Way Less Bang for the Buck Than Promised.
Aviation Week reports that the oldest F-35B could be put out to pasture in 2026. There’s a problem with the too-good-to-be true Joint Strike Fighter. Structural defects may leave the…
Supreme Court says bankrupt corporations’ assets must pay for environmental cleanup first, pay off debtors later
CALGARY Stand by for a veritable tempest of wailing about “activist judges” from banking, oil industry and conservative quarters, now that the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled bankrupt fossil…
Indigenous Groups Want the Truth About Shipping Impacts on the Salish Sea
The question is how degraded has the Salish Sea already become from shipping traffic out of Canada’s largest port, Vancouver. Indigenous groups from Canada and the US want hard answers…
Paris Cops Jailed for Raping Canadian Tourist
Two elite Paris police officers have been convicted of raping a Canadian woman who had been invited to tour their police headquarters. They each won a 7-year stretch in the…
Desalination is a Bad Answer to Water Insecurity
Today there are 16,000 desalination plants in operation converting sea water into fresh water for countries beset by water insecurity. Finally the United Nations is reporting what critics have known…
The Supreme Court of Canada Comes to the Rescue, Again.
It’s the law. Canadian energy companies must clean up old wells and cannot rely on bankruptcy as a mechanism to pillage the public. The top court’s ruling released Thursday overturns…
Roger Stone and the Geezer Factor
The simple fact is that we live in an age of rapid technological change that is largely alien to older people. Think back to when you had to set the…
If You’re Huddled Inside Trying to Escape the Cold…
Most of Canada is in a deep freeze as the Polar Vortex sweeps down from the Arctic. It’s cold. It’s killer cold. It’s also your new normal or at least…
Ship Of Fools
To the untutored and blunt mind, the world is black and white. Incapable of nuanced thinking, it apprehends things only as they immediately appear. While, as the old saying goes,…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday January 31, 2019. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
Say No to Bubble Boy
There are already more than enough galling stories circulating in Alberta’s political scene to emphasize why Jason Kenney and his party are grossly unfit to exercise any power. But it’s…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chris Hedges points out how the obscenely rich few are trying to distract from their accumulation of wealth in order to avoid…
Durham, We Need To Have A Talk About Erin
Dear people of Durham, we need to talk about Erin O’Toole. Your Minister of Parliament is becoming a national joke when it comes to Twitter. Times Erin O’Toole has directly…
Never a big fan of his music
But I look forward to Andrew Scheer’s outraged tweet to Google!
Canadian Geographic’s Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada tops Audreys Books’ Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestseller List
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Jan. 27, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
Out in the open with ‘Chuckles’ Scheer.
It’s time. Canada’s conservatives can no longer keep their leader a secret. Bloggers and broadcasters, reporters and speech writers are all digging into his history to find something to say…