Look who is back in the Sun!
The tree version, no less. Spotted at a Starbucks. Full column here!
April 2019
Learning Junk Food Marketing Manipulates, Teens Consume Less
Healthy eating can be a challenge when millions of dollars are spent everyday trying to convince us to eat junk food. It turns out that telling the truth to teens…
The Morning After: Alberta Election Edition
Yesterday was a watershed day in our politics for this year, without a doubt. And now here we are, on the morning after, picking through the bones of the result,…
A Call For Leadership
Jason Kenney’s UCP has achieved a majority in Alberta. Proclaiming that Alberta is open for business and that “ope is on the horizon,” he joins Ontario’s Doug Ford both in…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frank Clemente is the latest to point out how the Trump Republicans’ tax cut scheme served only to further enrich the already-wealthy. And…
Election Alberta 2019, in tweets
Biggest loser tonight in #abvotes2019? @JustinTrudeau. He motivated more voters than any other politician. Away from him. #ableg #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/jJ9k4IvR88 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 17, 2019 Wrong. Under Laurence…
Unadulterated Ignorance
Yesterday, Albertans voted in the Regressive Conservative Party — otherwise known as the UCP. Geoff Dembicki writes in The Tyee: Albertans elected one of the most socially conservative and environmentally…
The Alberta that God forgot.
“O outcast land! O leper land! Let the lone wolf-cry all express The hate insensate of thy hand, Thy heart’s abysmal loneliness.” From the poems of Robert Service. Jason Kenney…
Another Victory for Racists and Homophobes
What are the glimmers of hope for progressives in the wake of more Con wins across Canada?
Budget 2019 – revised trends #nlpoli
Budget 2019 was an election budget in the sense it contained a lot of little goodies, but there was nothing to get overly excited about. While everyone else is focused…
For the NDP, it’s 1 Down and 1 To Go
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s resounding defeat at the polls last night may just be the breakthrough that New Democrats need to get back into the game that the 2019 federal…
Jason Kenney, having delivered victory to his UCP, sounds like man with his eye on Ottawa
Give Jason Kenney his due: The man delivered a convincing enough victory for his United Conservative Party last night that no one can call him a political flop if at…
Mark Carney Warns Climate Change Demands Wholesale Change – While There’s Still Time.
Canadian Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has joined with Villeroy de Gilhau, his counterpart at the Bank of France, to warn the financial community that they can…
Take a moment to pity the future of Jason Kenney
So the people of Alberta have exorcised their anger by electing a government led by a homophobic, white nationalist, probably corrupt BS artist who has spent years stoking their anger.…
City Council and Park Board meetings to be streamed via a new platform
April 12 2019 – From April 15 onwards, City Council and Park Board meetings will be broadcast using a new live video streaming system. Earlier this month, we were notified…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats with companions.
This Could Be Another Difficult Day for Mr. Trudeau
He panicked and tossed away $4.5 billion on a pipeline project, money we might not (probably won’t) get back. He’s about to pour another seven to nine billion into constructing…
Alberta Election Night Live Blog
Today is election day in Alberta, one of the biggest provincial elections that we’ve seen in a very long time. So tonight here at Magpie Brûlé, always with an eye…
A First Victory for the Sudanese Revolution
Omar al Bashir, the 30-year long dictator of Sudan, the perpetrator of the massacre of hundreds of thousands of civilians in the Darfour and South Sudan wars, the enemy of…
April 16: Our final days?
Trump and his village idiots (like John Bolton) are discussing – with his generals – a possible invasion of Venezuela. Russia and China are both in Venezuela – by invitation.…