An Urgent Crisis?
Its pretty clear where the Con’s stand regarding the ever increasing threat to life as we know it on this planet we call Earth for all 63 of them in…
June 2019
TMX gets the nod from Justin Trudeau’s cabinet – masterstroke or master blunder?
With his cabinet’s second approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has either proved the Liberal Party of Canada’s old mojo is still…
Canadian Nationalist Party: Antisemites and Racists
If one has been paying attention, one would note that members of the Canadian Nationalist Party have become ubiquitous at far right events. If there is a Yellow Vests, Pegida,…
Commissioner Dumont to forward motion aimed at eliminating gas and diesel powered generators from Vancouver parks
Published Jun 18, 2019 1:18 PM Green Party of Vancouver VANCOUVER, B.C. – On Monday, June 24, 2019, Green Party Commissioner Camil Dumont will introduce a motion asking staff to…
Carbon Project: a progressive new vision for the Municipal Forest Reserve
Carbon Project: a progressive new vision for the Municipal Forest Reserve By Larry Pynn Forestry experts from the University of British Columbia painted a new sustainable vision for the 5,000-hectare…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Farhana Yamin discusses the need to answer the imminent threat of climate breakdown with direct action to force politicians to develop an…
Today
My Dad’s funeral was 15 years ago today. It was also my parents’ 49th anniversary. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 19, 2019
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Packaged cats.
Trans Mountain Pipeline Approved
...but far from built. I've talked about this before. My opinion is that Trudeau did the right thing by approving the pipeline. You can't really rule this country if the…
Trans Mountain Pipeline Approved
…but far from built. I’ve talked about this before. My opinion is that Trudeau did the right thing by approving the pipeline. You can’t really rule this country if the…
June 18: It is probable that on this post….
……we shall get our 1,000,000 viewer.___________________________________________________________https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-us-tanker-accusation-1.5175368 Oh, yeah. Those Iranians are always attacking people. Not at all like peace-loving Americans. And millions of Christian fundamentalists in the South will actually…
A US battle against nature in the Galapagos Islands
An announcement came out on June 12, 2019 that an agreement had been made between the governments of the United States and Ecuador that would allow the US military to…
Trudeau & Co. Sell Out the Future
Well, that puts an end to any Liberal pretensions of being a progressive party. No progressive would have done what they did today – green light the Trans-Mountain (Trudeau Memorial)…
Eating up the Hill: Going down the Rabbit Hole
There are a handful of pubs on Sparks Street opposite my office building and, frankly, none of them stand out. There is a newish player on the block though as…
The Senate—No Solution to Regional Alienation
Canada has always been a highly regionalized country—the Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies, B.C., all with varying interests and economies and, with Quebec at least, culture. One particular complaint is…
Oh No!
These are hard days to be a New Democrat on the Federal scene, without a doubt, and as the Fall election gets closer, it doesn’t seem to be getting any…
Not-so-Full House
A while back I wrote about the importance of the Parliamentary watchdogs that we have in Canada and why they need to be defended. These officers of Parliament do very…
Mirror Mirror
I can’t look away
The Crux Of The Problem
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. – Mark Twain (possibly) The above quotation, often attributed to Mark Twain, seems more relevant than ever, especially if…