Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Bagged cats.
May 2019
The Band Played ‘Waltzing Matilda’
No matter how much things change, they remain the same.
Beware the Library-Loving Seniors
Having worked on Parliament Hill for close to a decade, one thing that I gained a huge appreciation for is people who work in the constituency offices of elected officials.…
A Giggle from the Washington Post
I was reading a few of the comments to a WaPo story on the measles when I had the good luck to stumble across this one. Enjoy “How anti-vaxxers sound…
Bastards
These bastards bankrupted this man, tried to destroy him, and now are abandoning their show trial – because they realized they are the ones who were going to get destroyed.…
Tory is the best Grit
Here’s a poll that will rock Toronto and Ontario politics. And it is not a bad idea. At all. Full story here. It could take a Tory to topple the…
Greens to be Ignored No More
“From where I’m sitting, this whole “green surge” thing – there doesn’t seem to be a lot of actual evidence to back it up. Yet.” -Sudbury Steve May, “Is the…
The Myth of the Single-Issue Party
The Liberals seem to be getting a bad case of “swamp ass” with the way they’re smearing the Green Party. Some dig deep and claim it’s a racist party because…
Cutting Dignity
Over the past month in this space I’ve had a lot to say about post-budget cuts that have come from the Ford Conservatives in Ontario. Fact is that there have…
Everyone can be replaced
Everyone.
Coyne – How Canadians Fell Out of Love with Justin.
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil Liberals insist that Justin Trudeau is a victim of anyone and everyone but himself. The mainstream media was just dandy while…
May 7: To hell with everybody…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-global-biodiversity-report-1.5124089 _https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/07/the-future-of-life-on-earth-lies-in-the-balance-a-picture-essay Yes. This really is happening. And we are doing almost nothing about it.________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/06/us-deploys-aircraft-carrier-and-bombers-after-troubling-indications-from-iran The U.S. has not done well in most of its wars since 1945. And…
Five points about Nanaimo-Ladysmith, which, inter Alia, is a cool riding name
1. The Justin Trudeau Party – which isn’t the Liberal Party – came fourth. Fourth. Trudeau is in big trouble. 2. This isn’t an aberration. The Green Party has been…
Conservative ‘Blue Wave’ Sweeps Across Canada
Photo by Doug Ford/Twitter The federal system under which the Canadian state operates, places a great deal of decision making power in the hands of its provinces. While the dubiously…
My wife drop-kicks Herr Bernier
Fuck off, Max. https://t.co/o0suqbbx63 — Lisa Kinsella (@lisakinsella) May 6, 2019
Young People, Climate Change, Quebec
Have our old school (atrophied) political parties misjudged the issue of climate change? I think so. The worst part is that they haven’t merely shot themselves in the foot. They…
A Green Wave? No, But Possibly a Green Ripple.
It was just a by-election. Even if the governing party had an outside chance (it didn’t, the Liberal brand out here rarely is competitive) voters “punish” the part in power…
we movie to canada: wmtc annual movie awards, 2018-19 edition
Time to change things up. I’ve (finally) gotten tired of my silly movie award categories, and need a change. I decided to go with a conventional one-to-five rating scale. But…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Ball reports on the movement forming in support of a Canadian Green New Deal. Kyla Tienhaara discusses how it fits into…