Is it likely Boris Johnson will accomplish something neither Napoleon nor Hitler could manage – to wit, destruction of the United Kingdom? Perhaps it’s not likely. States like trees, even…
On a personal note, it was a disappointing shock to learn of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s rage tweet yesterday morning blaming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the $2.5-million Social Sciences…
I first heard of the Parícutin volcano when I was in elementary school, somewhere around 1960. There was a story about it in one of the weekly news magazines handed…
It used to be so much easier. There would be big news on climate change once, twice, maybe three times in a big week. It was mainly the science stuff…
It's been an amazing summer so far in the place where I live. And now that I'm on holiday I've been trying to enjoy every minute.The blue sky days, the…
The View from Oxford & Maitland Theft as defined by Merriam-Webster1a:: the act of stealing specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the…
Way above Alberta, the final book in the @XPUNKBOOK triology is done! My 10th book! Dunno if it’s any good, but I’m so grateful to @dundurnpress – and to @SFHPunks…
It seems like just last month that Europe was enduring a heatwave that saw a pile of all time temperature records broken. Wait, why it was just last month. Ah,…
VANCOUVER, B.C. – At last night’s Park Board meeting, Green Commissioner Camil Dumont substituted a motion introduced by Commissioner Coupar with one of his own. Coupar’s original motion asked the…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Niki Ashton writes about Justin Trudeau’s glaring failure to understand the importance of parity in services and genuine nation-to-nation recognition as core elements…
This adorable little dude was not actually in our backyard, but close enough! He or she was just over the back fence of our next-door neighbour’s yard. He was crying…
At Pearson, heading to Yukon, and the airline is refusing to permit me to board with my security rattlesnake. I intend to make a human rights complaint at the earliest…
Want to save the planet? Reduce how often you wash your clothes, you don’t need to wash your shirt that you wore for only one day. This is something you…
It’s official. Boris Johnson is now the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. And a lot of Britons know who they’re getting. Jonathan Manthorpe writes: Everyone knows — even those…
In the run up to any election, observers are always trying to read the tea leaves about wat that campaign might bring. We look at polling, both public domain and…
Since Andrew Scheer was made clerk of the House of Commons by Stephen Harper’s conservatives, it has been impossible to find common ground between the two of us. And it…
What do Albertans imagine will happen if we manage to build more pipelines to tidewater, as the ocean is known out here on the Great Plains of North America? Going…
In British Columbia, the energy ministry is staffed by regulators who don’t believe in regulation. That is a BC Liberal philosophy sustained by NDP timidity because the Horgan Government is…
Not with a bang, but a whimper.”______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/20/britain-lured-into-deadly-trap-on-iran-by-trump-hawk-john-bolton I thought Trump had quietly, with saying so, dumped John Bolton. Apparently, he hasn’t. And Iran is now a super dangerous war…
Festooned cats.
