Want a Preview of This Year’s Federal Election Campaign?
A columnist for The Guardian, Australia, Greg Jericho, looks at the election campaign waged by prime minister, Scott Morrison, and what is said and not said. It’s pretty much what…
May 2019
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Mike Benusic points out that the success of public health programs is found in the absence of preventable illnesses and dangers –…
pupdate: diego progress report
Diego seems to be doing all right. He’s able to hobble around on three legs pretty well. The incision looks good, and so far he’s leaving it alone, so we…
Top 10 Positive Outcomes of A Liberal re-election
In the Spirit of Late Night with David Letterman, the Top 10 reasons to see the Liberals re-elected. 10. A government guided by progressive principles can continue its work. As…
Ford And “Fake News”
Like his orange cousin, Doug Ford has gone to war with the media. Antonia Zerbisias writes: The war between Doug Ford’s government and the news media escalated this week when…
Pipe dreams and nightmares.
Nobody seems eager to address the questions of pipelines properly. Is it not possible that some pipelines can do good and some can commit unspeakable evil? Are we to be…
It bears repeating ….. again and again!
Is Anyone Listening? My name is Greta Thunberg. I am 16 years old. I come from Sweden. And I speak on behalf of future generations. I know many of you…
Rachel Notley sets out to do a little narrative building of her own about what Jason Kenney is up to, now that he’s premier
CALGARY – In her first major speech since losing the Alberta election to Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party on April 16, Rachel Notley called on her supporters not to allow…
Port Renfrew Chamber Decries Horgan’s Plan To Log Old Growth Near Jan De Fuca Plan To Log Old Growth
This is in Premier John Horgan’s constituency. The opposition is widespread, and now the Port Renfrew Chamber of Commerce is at odds with Horgan over plan to log old growth.…
The silencing of journalists is an attempt to silence us all.
The silencing of journalists is an attempt to silence us all. Doug Saunders is a Globe and Mail columnist. His latest book is Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are…
May 4: my apologies.
Damn! I just lost the whole blog I had written in this page. Look. The first page of today’s blog appears on another blog just below this one. I have…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ethan Cox reports on the massive public support in Canada for a wealth tax. David Hetherington writes that the wealthy few go out…
My latest: Trudeau, Liberals, and the inevitable sinking ship metaphor
Cue the soundtrack from Titanic. Once upon a time, Andrew Leslie was a star Liberal Party candidate. A decorated former commander of the Canadian Armed Forces, Leslie was hailed by…
Musical interlude
The Black Lotus – Eon
The return of the King.
The daughter has returned home from University for the summer. We are settling into restoring a bedroom long become a closet for large things. Beneath the bed, in detritus of…
May 4: And now it’s suddemly working.
I finished the last edition of this blog with an afterthought. The point of it was not just thinking good things about dealing with climate change, but understanding what “good…
Far Right Rallies and Counter-Rallies: Montreal and Toronto
I’ll be updating this as more information comes out. Two rallies are ongoing. In Montreal members of La Meute and other hate groups are rallying in support of the illiberal…
Real World Curriculum
Almost two years ago, in July of 2017, I crafted a “Real World” curriculum. It must have rained or been outrageously hot for a few days in a row for…
What If?
Remember the heady days of 2015 when Harper was swept out of power and Justin Trudeau along with his chosen cabinet arrived at Rideau Hall to be sworn in? It…