Ukraine a Breeding Ground for Far Right Extremists
They’re armed. They’re trained. They’re waiting for an opportunity to return to their homelands in the West to show what they can do. From VICE News: Many far-right extremists, estimated…
July 2019
Andrew Scheer’s Big Religious Bigotry Problem
It's the one question Andrew Scheer would rather run away from than answer.For he knows that if Canadians ever learn the truth very few of them would vote for him.But…
Should I scrub my life? Or, Who was that guy who wrote those posts?
So it’s been a while since I came to this website. It’s been a while since I thought about this website. But now I’m older, and also a lot older,…
Canada – TrumpLand north?
July 30, Stephen Colbert interviewed Jacob Soboroff and Katy Tur, presenters of American Swamp, a four-part docuseries on MSNBC about government corruption. They talk about politics in the USA but…
American Home Construction Booms In Flood Zones
You might’a thunk they’d know better. Wrong. For eight states, including Connecticut, Rhode Island, Mississippi and South Carolina, the percentage increase in homes built in the flood zone exceeded the…
Russia Declares State of Emergency
The Land of Vlad has declared a state of emergency over wildfires sweeping Siberia. Officials said 2.7 million hectares of forest (about 10,400 square miles) were ablaze on Tuesday as…
Tracking Greenhouse Gas Emitters from Space
When it comes to methane, the technology needed to identify the source of fugitive emissions from space isn’t far off. And not just by some general area. It’s possible to…
Jeremy Corbyn is the most smeared politician in history
The media serves an important if not vital function in a democratic society. But, what if the bulk of the mainstream press becomes controlled by a handful of foreign-based billionaires?…
Environmental destruction—more than a war crime?
The UN’s International Law Commission currently has on its agenda an item concerned with protecting the environment in times of war. The commission has drawn up 28 draft principles, the…
We Need to Talk – About Loyalty
With an election just three months away, can we say that our political parties are really loyal to the country and our people? Loyalty is an elusive term, shifting according…
VanSplash strategy advisory group report: “Vancouver needs more pools”
Vancouver Park Board News ReleaseJuly 31, 2019 At a special Vancouver (Read more…) Board meeting last night, Commissioners received a feedback report on the draft VanSplash Aquatic Strategy outlining a…
By the numbers: CPC and GPC up, LPC and NDP way down
Wow. Check out the federal second quarter fund-raising numbers, just out. Conservatives: $8,532,334.15 (YTD $16,500,000) Liberals: $5,033,998.49 (YTD $8,891,161.49) Greens: $1,437,722.71 (YTD $2,221,001.46) NDP: $1,226,868.92 (YTD $2,660,343.07) You read that…
Wednesday Morning Links
This and that for your mid-week reading. – Noah Smith writes about the unfairness and inaccuracy in blaming people for finding themselves in poverty. And Sarah Kaine and Emmanuel Josserand…
Elizabeth May Says The Greens Are Finished With Warren Kinsella
It was one of the worst political moves in modern Canadian history. Elizabeth May's decision to hire Warren Kinsella to run the Green Party's War Room, or as she prefers…
Adieu, Warren
That didn’t last long. The Green Party has severed its ties to Warren Kinsella. Susan Delacourt reports that: Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has wound down a controversial working relationship…
The gang that can’t even sell pot.
It is hard to believe that Doug Ford’s gang in Ontario cannot even get a handle on the pot business. Is there no part of government in which they have…
Injunction suspending application of Bill 9 leaves Kenney Government with egg on its face
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall at United Conservative Party Headquarters last night! I imagine there were heated words spoken about Mr. Justice Eric Macklin’s decision just…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Blanketed cats.
July 30: A bad, bad day.
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/shifting-ground Don’t worry. There is no climate change. If there were, the Conservative Party would have told us._________________________________________________________________https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/being-china-support-hong-kong-carrie-lam-protests-1.5228707 I think ( I very much fear) that China is going to…