In Whom Or What Do You Trust?
Trust, they say, is the coin of the realm. But, according to the CanTrust Index, trust in Canada has taken a beating. Susan Delacourt writes: For the first three years…
April 2019
Saturday Photo: Plant a Tree Day…Or Plan to Plant One
Back when I was a kid in California Arbor Day was a big thing. In our windswept, semi-arid neighborhood, we were encouraged to plant trees, particularly around Arbor Day which…
If you’re counting on a Green Wave: Forget it.
Elizabeth May, leader of the Green party, has a damn tough job and she has done it well. She does not always agree with her own troops and her main…
Vote-anywhere made it easier to cast a vote against the government from, well, anywhere
Well, God bless the NDP, I guess, who could apparently be depended upon to do the right thing, even if it killed them. Alberta’s official vote results are now in…
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles is No. 1 on Audreys Books Edmonton Fiction Bestseller List this week
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton during the week ended April 21, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
Musical interlude
The Tea Party – Save Me
Neo-Nazi sentence: not yet
The publisher and editor of the white supremacist, Holocaust-denying, homophobic, women-hating Your Ward News have been found guilty of promoting hatred against women and Jews. But, after a long hearing…
Sears and St. Germaine Sentencing Update
While trying to piece together media reports and accounts from ARC supporters of the Your Ward News sentencing hearing this morning, one word keeps coming to mind: circus. Sears answers…
The Vendetta Deepens?
Kinsella is hinting he has some new strategy to attack Justin Trudeau and the Liberals as the election nears. He tweeted this to someone who objected to his relentless attacks…
Finally, Some Good News for the Trudeau Liberals
Is Canada back in black? CTV reports that the federal government is now running a surplus. A preliminary estimate of the federal books says the government posted a surplus of…
Watch great blue herons defend nests from eagle attacks with Vancouver park board’s Heron Cam
by Martin Dunphy on April 25th, 2019 The Georgia Straight For the fifth year, the Vancouver park board has made a high-definition camera feed available to the public to peek…
Montreal launches organic farming initiative to feed city’s poor
?? WATCH ABOVE: The city of Montreal is partnering with several organizations to turn land into urban gardens to feed impoverished residents. Rachel Lau reports. – AA+ Listen By Rachel…
It’s Becoming a Tense, Angrier World
With the path we’re on today this probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise but a study finds that we are becoming more anxious and angrier than in the…
Mexico Bumps Canada as America’s Largest Trading Partner
Despite all of Donald Trump’s bluster about Mexico and its people, America’s southern neighbour has become its largest trading partner. U.S. census data released last week showed that Mexico’s trade…
The Monroe Doctrine is Back: Its Purpose is to Serve the Neoliberal Order
In November 2013, then-Secretary of State John Kerry declared: “The era of the Monroe Doctrine is over.” The reality of Obama administration policy did not entirely support this assertion; there…
Report Finds US Sanctions on Venezuela Are Responsible for Tens of Thousands of Deaths
A new paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), by economists Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs, finds that economic sanctions implemented by the Trump administration since August…
Activists Protect DC Venezuelan Embassy from US-supported Coup
Photo by EPA-EFE An extraordinary chapter in the ongoing saga of Venezuela has been taking place, virtually unnoticed, at the Venezuela Embassy that lies in the heart of swanky Georgetown…
Attenborough Calls Us Out, All of Us.
Let’s drop the farcical notion that we haven’t screwed our youngest generation and those that will follow them. Let’s stop pretending. Listen to naturalist, David Attenborough who says their plight,…
The Buck Stops…. Somewhere, Right???
In the weeks since the first Ford Ontario Conservative budget, we’ve been seeing a steady drip of stories coming out about cut after cut after cut. These stories have brought…
Andrew Scheer and the Oily Conspiracy (Continued)
In one of my last posts I looked at how Andrew Scheer and Big Oil were secretly working together to try to defeat Justin Trudeau.In what can only be described…