pupdate: that was fast: cookie and kai are best friends
Under a plastic chair: Cookie’s safe space It’s tough to get a photo of Kai without a toy in her mouth. I thought it would be difficult to get Cookie…
May 2019
How Supple Are They?
I hope, for the sake of their well-being, that each loyal soldier in the Doug Ford regime has a gym membership they regularly use. Otherwise, I fear they will sustain…
Some Friendly Advice
The Fall election is getting closer and closer and as that date with whatever destiny it turns out to be gets closer, there is a lot to ponder. So, it’s…
thank you alex cora and many red sox for doing the right thing
Thank you Alex Cora, Mookie Betts, David Price, Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers, Jackie Bradley Jr., Hector Velazquez, Christian Vazquez, Eduardo Núñez, and Sandy Leon! These players and their manager declined…
The Clown President
Donald Trump’s naked disregard for the law has been a long time coming. Chris Hedges writes: This decades-long disregard by the two major political parties for the rule of law…
Doug Ford meet Mike Harris.
Philosopher George Santayana told us that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” That idea has obviously sailed right over the head of Ontario premier Doug…
UCP Health Minister Tyler Shandro hesitates over risky ideological plan to pull plug on medical ‘Superlab’
When it opted to build a $590-million “Superlab” in Edmonton, Alberta’s former NDP government was relying on sound advice from the Health Quality Council of Alberta, which recommended medical lab…
Your tax dollars at work: Looks like public funding for religious schools likely helped today’s large anti-abortion march
Taxpayers’ contributions to publicly funded parochial schools appeared to be hard at work today in Edmonton as a throng of students from religious high schools throughout the province marched through…
The Day After: the Argument for a Third Party in Alberta and a call for its Big Idea
For me, Jason Kenney’s victory is something new and novel to Alberta. Think about it this way, from 1935 to 2008, Alberta had always had a variety of conservative parties.…
In defence of Alberta, Decarbonisation and an Intelligent Transition to a Different Future
Many good-willed environmentalists have made the argument that Alberta would be better if it left all of its bitumen in the ground. One of them replied to my last post.…
In defense of Openness, Conciliation, Inclusiveness and Convincing
A few replies came in due to my last post and I was surprised by their disturbing tone and how some of them were laced with a sort of anger…
May 09: VERY dangerous times
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/08/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-us-withdrawal This one is very, very dangerous. It’s also without any excuse.Until shortly after World War Two, Iran was controlled by British oil companies. It was a dictatorship. And it…
you’re not going to believe this… introducing cookie!
I fell in love with Cookie the first time I saw her outside the library. I knew her current people wouldn’t keep her. Yada yada yada, today she joined our…
Bigot Beyak Booted
Tory senator, Lynn Beyak, has been given the boot. Beyak was suspended from the Senate for refusing to remove racist letters about First Nations from her web site. Beyak has…
Is This Andrew Scheer’s Biggest and Most Disgusting Lie Ever?
As we all know, or should know, Andrew Scheer is a serial liar who mangles or mutilates the truth all the time.He's a religious fanatic who can't even respect the…
The Cost of Dirty Money
British Columbia’s oh-so-Liberal government earned a reputation for looking the other way on certain criminal activity, especially money-laundering. That’s Asian money-laundering. Dirty money spirited out of Asia, mainly China, and…
How to Resist Surveillance Capitalism
Surveillance capitalism is a truly 21st century innovation which is having a major impact on society. Policies around data protection and privacy aren’t strong enough yet and trade deals don’t…
The BCNDP Blinked Over Logging Port Renfrew Old Growth. Plans Cancelled For Now.
The old growth forests near Port Renfrew have been spared from the axe for now. The ingredients in the dispute were potentially explosive with broadly based opposition including the BC…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Edward Keenan writes about the chaos being created by Doug Ford’s reckless and thoughtless slashing of crucial public services. CTV reports on…
Theres only one taxpayer is not ideology, it’s math!
The chant “There’s only one taxpayer!” has come to mean “Me”, and, “Stop taking my money”. When Doug Ford says it, he means him, not you. When you say it,…