Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Lawrence Mishel points out that Donald Trump’s giveaways to the rich actually resulted in a sharp decline in bonuses paid to workers. –…
June 2019
Children Looking For Applause
Doug Ford shuffled his cabinet yesterday. He believes that what he needs is a change of faces, not policy — because he has been changing his own policies ever since…
Tar, TMX and Trudeau: Leave It In The Ground, Please
The world needs an aggressive plan with ALL countries designed to mitigate the volume of carbon that we are producing. That means Canada has to have a plan. Unfortunately, the…
Toronto knows how to party.
Hey, knock off the complaints about the party in Toronto for the Raptors team last Monday. With three days notice, the decision was to parade the team from the Exhibition…
Natural gas revenues: going, going, almost gone
In 2008, British Columbia gained $3.2 billion from sale of petroleum and natural gas rights. If the second half of 2019 matches the first, revenue from right offerings for the…
Celebration of Life for Our Dear Friend Rodger Sparkes
Our dear friend, Roger Sparkes passed away earlier this year and his friend are all cordially invited to gather together for a Celebration of his astonishing life. Please note if…
June 20: Things are very, very dangerous.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-resettled-most-refugees-un-1.5182621 Get this. Canada led the world in accepting refugees while the U.S. at many, many times the size of Canada came second. – which makes one wonder about the…
Rick Boswick and Derek Storie: More Fallout From Attack on LGBTQ Community By Far-Right
The days since Christian Taliban members, Yellow Vesters (as represented by Rick Boswick and Derek Storie among others), Canadian Nationalist Party members, and a Wolves of Odin have been interesting…
A Gentle Predator But It Still Has Fangs
China loves islands. It loves them so much it has manufactured its own from mere atolls to dominate the South China Sea, roiling the neighbours and drawing American navy task…
The Big Ford Shuffle
It’s been just over a year since Ontarians elected the Ford Conservatives to a majority government and it’s not been a smooth ride so far. Between the massive cuts all…
The Same Old Song? No, Not Really.
We’re barraged with reports about the loss of Arctic sea ice, the threat to the Antarctic ice pack, the melting of the Greenland ice cap, the retreat of glaciers around…
The Global Rogues Gallery
The bottom of the barrel, the worst of the lot, the “rot” in rotten. They’re Saudi Arabia, Russia, Israel, Iran and the United States of America. They are the Gang…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood offers an electoral primer for voters who want to avert a climate breakdown in this fall’s federal election. And Paul…
Scheer Putting Canada on Death Watch
Oh these petro-pimps just don’t stop. After Justin Trudeau wallowed in it, groveling at the feet of the Fossil Fuelers and their pipeline to “tidewater,” now it’s Andrew Scheer’s turn.…
That’s It?
Andrew Scheer has finally released his plan to tackle climate change. Alex Boutillier and Alex Ballingall report that: Under the Conservative plan, companies will still be forced to pay for…
Temporary transfer station for green waste opens in False Creek
An action to help prevent the spread of Japanese beetle June 17 2019 – As part of our efforts to eradicate the Japanese beetle, an invasive and destructive pest that…
Scheer’s Climate-Change Plan – A Reality Check
While the Trudeau government engages in public double-think exercises (expansion of pipelines AND climate-change mitigation!), those hoping for climate salvation from the Conservatives under Andrew Scheer would be well-advised to…
Drunken Sobriety
When I started blogging the first time well over a decade ago, I set a few ground rules for myself, rules that I’ve stuck to ever since and I believe…
NDP’s Jagmeet Singh is ‘All In.’
It is the bet in Texas hold ‘em poker that separates the men from the boys. ‘All in’ is the act of pushing all your chips into the pot on…
My eyes are dim, I cannot see; so AlbertaPolitics.ca must take a short break from publication
As the venerable camp song goes, “My eyes are dim, I cannot see…” Indeed, my eyes are dim enough nowadays it doesn’t really make much difference whether or not I…