Why Andrew Scheer’s Climate Change Plan Is Such Sad Joke
When Andrew Scheer finally announced his "real plan to protect the environment" it was clear to me from the look on his face that he knew it was fraudulent.And that…
June 2019
Vancouver Aquarium drops cetacean ban lawsuit against Park Board, signs new 35-year deal
By Simon Little Online Journalist Global News The Vancouver Aquarium’s cetacean ban lawsuit against the City of Vancouver and its Park Board appears to be water under the bridge.The aquarium’s…
Spotted on the way back from Canadian Tire
Someone has a sense of humour.
Transforming Capitalist Power: From the Streets to the State
The communist playwright Bertolt Brecht once wrote, “The individual can be annihilated/But the Party cannot be annihilated” (1977, 29). And yet, in the neoliberal era, the Party has been annihilated…
In The Mail
With the fall election getting closer and closer by the day, we are starting to see the different parties ramp up in different ways. Between the floods of emails soliciting…
The Government We Deserve
If you believe that somehow there will be less baloney for sale during this federal election, you’re going to be deeply disappointed. Susan Delacourt writes that social media will not…
diego
We said goodbye to our Diego yesterday. We had surgery to repair a ruptured knee ligament (ACL) about six weeks ago. He recovered quickly and was doing really well. And…
No facts please, a Toronto Star editorial.
It is always assumed that editorials in newspapers are more about opinions than facts. And that makes the Toronto Star just as biased as the National Post. The other day…
The 21st Century West – Growing Steadily Dumber.
Ever since we entered the millennium, IQ scores across the West have been dropping. People are getting dumber. That’s not a judgment; it’s a global fact. In a host of…
June 25: Let’s get real. Let’s get angry.
https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/inourbackyard/ Again, the CBC is doing what all of our news media should have been doing for the last 30 years. Get used to it. But most of your news…
Eating up the Hill: SEN Kitchen at Queen Street Fare
I’ve written previously about the burger and the pizza vendors (actually, seems I haven’t written about the pizza yet so, spoiler alert) at Queen Street Fare, the newish adult pseudo…
Margaret Wente: The Clickbait Queen Finally Call It Quits
I've always amused myself by portraying the right-wing Trudeau hating columnist Margaret Wente as Marie Antoinette.I can't remember why I started portraying her that way, but it was probably because…
Canada’s Climate Migration Begins
Canadians are on the move in search of safety. They’re beginning to get away from the smoke and flames of wildfires that now sweep broad swathes of the West. The…
Ten Pointed Questions for CPC MP Alex Nuttall
Something stinks in Barrie Ontario. In March of this year, on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Barrie City Councillor, Keenan Aylwin, called out two local CPC…
CTV reports on the growing Pizzagate scandal!
Right here!
The Long Shadow of French
When Doug Ford adjourned the Ontario Legislature for five months, until well after the Federal election in the Fall, all the talk out there about this move was that this…
Trudeau troll trapped
Great work, Blacklock’s. This bastard has gone after my family, and other families too. Welcome to your new life, “Zod.” An anonymous Twitter user so profane he was blocked by…
Ocean Wise and Vancouver Park Board sign new 35-year licence agreement
Ocean Wise announces new vision for conservation and public education “We look forward to a new future with Ocean Wise as leaders in raising awareness of the vital role of…
Democracy Speaks and Turkey’s Strongman Takes a Hit
A list of strongmen leaders running pseudo-democracies to justify their autocratic rule usually includes Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He has expanded the power of his presidency and increasingly curbed…
Japan Surrenders to America – Again
This time there won’t be any signing ceremony on the deck of an American battleship in Tokyo bay. This capitulation will be at the G20 in Osaka. Japan has bowed…