So, Like, Where Do You Find Your Truth?
This being the Sabbath and all I thought it a good time to consider the idea of truth and what it means to us, to me and to you. As…
May 2019
Stuff Still Happens IV, the Reckoning, week 19: The Greens are coming, the Greens are coming!
Don’t look now, folks, but the Green Party has quietly become a force in Canada. In British Columbia, the Greens hold the balance of power in the minority NDP government.…
I Know, You Know, So Does Antonio
UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, says the political will to fight climate change is “fading.” From Deutsche Welle. Guterres said the world was “not on track” to confine the rise…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Tony Burman writes about the seismic change we can expect as the importance of our climate crisis – as well as the…
Raucous Years Ahead
I confess that I’ve been feeling pretty discouraged recently. In response to a comment from the Mound of Sound yesterday, I quoted Mark Twain: “Hain’t we got all the fools…
Requiem for the New Democratic Party.
After a lingering struggle, with the family in attendance, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) of Tommy Douglas and the New Democratic Party of the Broadbent and Lewis families has passed…
Mothers Day Heroes….
On this special day when we think of the ladies in our lives my focus is not upon the uncaring political types that I usually write about but on the…
Choices
Yeah, who wants socialism?
Toronto is segregated by race and income. And the numbers are ugly (repost)
In Toronto, the colour of money is mainly white. New demographic charts show a strikingly segregated city, with visible minorities concentrated in low-income neighbourhoods and white residents dominating affluent areas…
As Far Right Rises, a Battle Over Security Agencies Grows (repost)
VIENNA — As well as anyone, Sybille Geissler knows the threats from Austria’s far-right extremists, who in recent weeks have likened migrants to rats and blithely defended campaign material that…
Why Conservatives Hate Facts …
Let’s hope facts get in the way of the myth of the fiscal conservative as election 2019 approaches.
On definitive statements
Following up on this post, I’ll take a step back point out how Scott Moe’s insistence on attacking any carbon price through the courts is only enshrining in Canadian jurisprudence…
Confused About Climate Change? Worried About Mass Extinction? Why Not Ask an Expert?
These dire scientific questions that confront us today can become overwhelming. Why not leave that to the experts? How about someone who studied English literature? The Globe’s in-house contrarian, Margaret…
Motherhood
Tomorrow will be my first Mother’s Day without my Mom. I’ll probably wake up in the morning and think, “Oh, I must call Mom and ask if she liked her…
May 11:I think we’re heading to the last chapter
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-food-shortage-rationing-1.5132297 The United States is the only country in the world, it seems, that has the right to tell other countries who they’re allowed to trade with – and if…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne discusses why we can’t afford another Harper government – but also why we shouldn’t merely accept the Libs as the only…
As the United States Gears Up for Another Illegal War of Aggression
There was this giant war thingee, see. And we all said “this shit has to stop.” And so we created the United Nations. And then we prohibited wars of aggression.…
Saturday Photo: The Flowers that Come in May…
This long, wet season is finally improving, and I saw this glorious display this morning. The garden centres are full of plants, and the elementary school our kids went to…