How About Two Billion, Does That Cut Any Ice?
One aspect of climate change that is often missing from our conversation is how much of it is already locked in. Until we find some mechanism to extract atmospheric greenhouse…
February 2019
thank you, nanaimo! the ndp government survives
Thank you, Nanaimo! With all the personal blathering I’ve been doing, I forgot to write about something very important! There was a by-election here in BC: a seat in Nanaimo…
Scheer Incompetence
Michael Harris doesn’t see much of a future for Andrew Scheer: After a year and a half in office, people can be forgiven if they think Scheer is still Speaker…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of February 4, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of February 4, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: 170 top in-house lawyers warn they will direct their dollars to law…
Who Is Andrew Scheer? Lesson #1
I was having a conversation with a good friend that I worked with in politics (names are hidden to protect the innocent) years ago, he is still fairly plugged in…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – David Leonhardt points out how the upward redistribution of income has radically reshaped the U.S. for the worse. – Josh Bivens writes about…
Lies, hyperbole and alt truths.
What has happened to politics? And what has happened to the decency that it used to have? We all know that U.S. president Donald Trump creates his own truths but…
Melancholy Monday Music – 02/04/2019
Yes. Melancholy Monday. Foggy, and wet – it feels like a Milk Carton Kids morning. The Milk Carton Kids are an American indie folk duo from Eagle Rock, California, United…
Active People Naturally Crave Healthier Foods
Want to eat healthier but lacking motivation? Start being more active and you’ll find that picking healthier foods will get easier. A least that’s what participants found in a recent…
The Turmoil and Topsy Turvy #nlpoli
With so much changing in any office, what has “always” been done really only goes back to the time of the last person who came in the door. In Newfoundland…
UCP Leader Jason Kenney, political lifer elected at 29, mocks 29-year-old NDP candidate with sophomoric and offensive joke
I hear, “a gay 19 year old.” Quite clearly. I speak, of course, of Jason Kenney’s notorious cheap shot in Cochrane last Thursday, in which he mischaracterized the NDP’s newly…
CAPP Meet Mr Kenney
Recently Mr Kenney told municipal leaders in Cochrane that in addition to multi-billion dollar deficits and rising debt levels Alberta was drowning in red tape. To illustrate his point Kenney…
In Response to Ron Ghitter
In the Saturday, February 2 edition of the Calgary Herald, former Senator and MLA Ron Ghitter published an opinion piece titled “O dysfunctional Canada, laments former senator Ghitter”. This piece…
Andrew Scheer’s Weird and Evil Parallel Universe
Like many people in this country, I couldn't believe it when I saw Andrew Scheer cheerfully proclaim that Justin Trudeau was more divisive than he was.I was stunned that Scheer…
Stuff Happens IV, The Reckoning, week 5. Breaking news: Winter is cold
Millions of Americans and not a few Canadians made the shocking discovery this week that winter can be very cold. Baby, it’s cold outside. Or are we not allowed to…
This Vote, This Year, Is Different. It Matters Like It Never Mattered Before.
For many millennials and their parents, this election will be like no other. Many of those millennials now have infants, toddlers, newborns and their parents have grandbabies. This year it…
Eating off the Hill: Wild Pacific sockeye salmon at Avenue Bistro in Comox
I mentioned in my last review that the last time I had risotto, it wasn’t that great. However, the salmon was excellent, which brings me to my post-Christmas dinner at…
We Don’t Need No Education
Once again, under Ontario’s Conservatives, education is under the gun. Heather Mallick writes: In first few months of government, he and his cabinet have cancelled plans for Ontario’s first official…
Introducing Political-Potshots.com (And Now For Something Completely Different)
I am so absolutely excited and proud to launch my very own website, Political Potshots! It is less a culmination of a lifelong dream, and more a step into the…