How broad the impacts of this scandal?
This years-long financial scandal at the Legislature would have been impossible if BC had sunshine laws ensuring full transparency of government spending.
January 2019
Jason Kenney’s domestic arrangements: A wonkish look at how MPs identify their primary and secondary residences
Members of the Canadian Parliament like Jason Kenney in the days he was MP for Calgary Midnapore are permitted to charge expenses for a secondary residence, either in the National…
Yellow Vests Canada Admin Marc "Tyler" Malenfant’s Paranoia Disturbing and Enlightening
With news last week that the "slightly" more rational truck convoy to Ottawa was being cancelled, we were left with the (and please forgive my use of arcane jargon) bat-fucking-insane…
Doug Ford’s Con Clown Climate Change Show
It was a scene that for some reason reminded me of the original Planet of the Apes. When the apes first talk talking, and everyone gasps in shock.For there was…
Is Brexit Getting On Your Nerves? There’s a Pill For That.
In recent weeks I’ve spent a few hours watching the debates in Britain’s House of Commons on the Guardian’s YouTube channel. Having watched the fare dished up in Canada’s Parliament,…
Let’s Do the Math
A new report from the International Monetary Fund laments that growth this year may decline to just 3.5 per cent. How does that sound to you? How long does it…
Pence Likens Trump to Martin Luther King Jr.
Is there no end to this silver-haired prick? Speaking on Sunday on CBS’ Face the Nation, the vice president quoted from King’s “I Have a Dream” speech as he defended…
Andrew Scheer’s Fake and Pathetic Town Hall
Andrew Scheer was no doubt hoping to show Justin Trudeau that he could perform at a town hall as well as Trudeau has shown he can.And that like the prime…
Who’s a Cassandra?
I realize that I post a lot of items about climate change that aren’t very appealing. In fact many of them are pretty dark. Yet when it comes to gloom…
Make America White Again
It’s the hat. The initial coverage of the Kentucky Catholic kid and the Indigenous veteran decidedly favoured the latter over the former. A short video of the pair was everywhere,…
The Lesson Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders have for the Left: Welcome Their Hatred
Photo by Anthony Green We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace–business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider…
Meme Monday #4
“Prince Charles sunk the Titanic” lol! Another meme from the Monarchists Facebook page. Itis a monarchist take on the NPC Wojak meme that flaredup a little while ago. While I…
CBC Picks Up Attack On Environment
Dismayed to see the “foreign funding” conspiracy theory gaining traction in Canada’s #oilsands discussion again. For perspective, I’ve pulled a few great articles from @Garossino written way back in 2012:…
in which we reluctantly begin the search for a new vehicle
We were warned about this! We were half-expecting it. Our car didn’t pass the inspection for BC auto insurance. Supposedly this is what happens when you bring a car from…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of January 21, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 21, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: Judge Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Roll Back Birth Control Mandate A man…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Eric Levitz exposes the unsoundness of the right-wing excuses for allowing the accumulation of obscene wealth. And Toby Sanger weighs on the effect…
A Liberal Deputy Prime Minister on Trudeau’s treatment of indigenous leaders: “bad”
From former Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps, in today’s Hill Times: On the cabinet shuffle, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau demoted a female aboriginal star when he shuffled Jody Wilson-Raybould out…
Reviving the “Dinosaur of Trees”
Giant redwood trees are beautiful to look at and are great for the environment. We need them now more than ever before. The redwoods filter air, water while also removing…
An Olive Branch to Alberta?
It was last April when Babel-on-the-Bay commented on the Toronto Star’s Quisling-like coverage of the Alberta tar sands quandary by Star business writer David Olive. We were pleased to note…
Ever Wonder What’s Going On Right Now in Our Far North?
Technical descriptions are difficult, even tedious, but this video from Vice News should open your eyes to what is now underway across the far north.