Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Phil Dzikiy discusses how GE is already losing massive amounts of money due to its incorrect assumption that fossil fuels would be profitable.…
June 2019
Sir John A. showed the way.
He might have been a drunk, but he had vision. He saw a nation across the top of North America brought together with bands of steel. Sir John A. Macdonald…
The New SRBP
After a couple of years of irregular posting, SRBP has been back since the start of the year with at least one new post every Monday. Some of you have…
Look What We Made
Think of it as an appetizer, a wee morsel to usher in the entre. Or think of it as a first installment on the butcher’s bill for catastrophic climate change.…
Mr Kenney’s Speech on Bill No. 1
Mr Kenney and Bill No. 1 There comes a time for politicians who spent the campaign trail foaming with righteous indignation to transform into thoughtful representatives of the people who…
Sunday Night Surprise
One axiom that I’ve always lived by in politics is that campaigns almost never go totally form. It never fails that some surprises and curveballs come out, things that we…
Straw man
Single use. pic.twitter.com/RDZvGgT3Fp — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 9, 2019
Stuff Still Happens IV, the Reckoning, Week 23: Genocide? Not in my country
The final report of the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (shorted to the ungainly MMIWG) was released this week. The final report was about 1,200…
Disappointing annual meeting sadly leaves little hope for the Ontario Liberal Party
Wow what a terrible waste of my time and money. I paid $450.00 to attend the Ontario Liberal Party’s Annual General Meeting this past weekend to help change it. I…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Angela Rayner writes about the distinction between limited social mobility and genuine social justice, while highlighting UK Labour’s commitment to the latter:…
Wittgenstein and Connectivism
NB This is only a very preliminary sketch of what should really be a longer treatment. I was asked: 1) Today I found a great idea in your work that…
Doug Ford’s Vacation and the Hidden Hand of Stephen Harper
When I heard that Doug Ford had decided to give himself and his government a five-month vacation until the federal election was over, I wasn't really surprised.I'd heard he'd found…
Man Overboard!
H/t Michael de Adder Sometimes, it is best to let nature take its course. Recommend this Post
The New Dr. Goebbels
These days, we are awash in falsehoods. Social media have been a blessing. But they have also been a curse. Robin Sears writes: Someone leaked an email allegedly from a…
Mixing ignorance and ideology in Ontario.
It’s a bad combination. Ignorance in itself is bad enough but in a mix with an ideology as strident as conservatism, it is simply bad government. It is a colonic…
List of List’s, Cuts, cuts, cuts….
Ontario Premier Mr Frord has said he is on a mission to ‘reduce waste’ by any means possible (except by removing himself) and he most certainly is reducing the programs…
Hamilton Yellow Vests Rally Draws Numerous Hate and Patriot Groups
On June 7, 2019 a number of hate and patriot groups participated in a Yellow Vests Canada rally in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, including Soldiers of Odin, Wolves of Odin, Northern…
June 08:I should be positive? Why?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/07/uae-tanker-attacks-un-iran-norway-saudi-arabia Right. It’s obvious. This had to be a state-sponsored act of highly trained killers. Ihttps://www.cbc.ca/news/world/immigrant-detention-dhs-report-1.516608_______________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/07/oceans-demise-the-end-of-the-arctic-as-we-know-it_____________________________________________________________ I included the next item for personal satisfaction. A high school classmate of mine…
The Raptors and the New Canada
It was another exciting and very loud night in my neighbourhood. The Raptors were playing and defeating the Golden State Warriors in Oakland, California. But as they do every game…