September 2019 Bits and Bites: CNP and PPC Edition
It has now over a week since ARC published the list of Canadian Nationalist Party members which include such individuals as neo-Nazi Paul Fromm, neo-Nazi and former Moose Jaw Soldiers…
September 2019
A Warning from Australia on Scheer’s Climate Non-Plan
Andrew Scheer argues carbon pricing is the wrong way to limit GHG emissions. He has pledged to eliminate the federal carbon pricing system, promising that scrapping it will bring down…
Talking Liberal Platform & #Elxn43 on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I had the chance again to join Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We talked about the…
Somenos society warns of long list of negative impacts associated with motorsport expansion
Planned expansion of the Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit could result in wide-ranging negative impacts on plants and animals in the area, according to a detailed environmental report released Monday by…
An Uplifting Way to Look at Fighting Climate Change
Too often we see meaningful action to thwart climate catastrophe as a threat to the economy, a job killer, a meme that is so readily distorted, overblown. Duke University professor,…
No, You Must Be Thinking About "The Ghost of Canada Past"
A sobering op-ed from The Globe’s Gary Mason on why hopes that Canada will take “meaningful climate action” are wishful thinking. It’s not so much that he’s saying something shocking.…
Globe and Mail in the Pot Business?
I have access to the Globe & Mail as part of a family membership (not mine). Personally I don’t find enough in it to justify the cost of a separate…
Debates, debate moderators and those who seek to influence them
The picture above was apparently taken last night in Ottawa. It shows the Huffington Post’s Althia Raj and the Liberal Party’s Gerald Butts. Raj is one of the moderators in…
From the “A lie is a lie is a lie!” Dep’t:
From the “A lie is a lie is a lie!” Dep’t: NOTE: There are better ways to beef up your resume w/o blatantly lying… FYI Jobs in Saskatchewan you cannot…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Grace Blakeley writes that class politics are making a sorely-needed return, raising the prospect that people might again start to make gains against…
Checking in at the Midway Point
Here we are onto Day 20 of our 40 day 43rd General Election campaign and wow, what a campaign it has been. It’s felt like so much longer than the…
Protest Alone Won’t Save Our Planet
School Strike for Climate in Melbourne, Australia 19th March 2019. Photo by SS4C (Flickr). We can all use a shot of hope. I got one from 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of September 30, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 30, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: WWE wrestler asks people to respect cops in wake of staged video:…
orange shirt day: because reconciliation matters
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More Fordian Folly
Today is the day that support staff in Ontario’s schools begin work to rule. Doug Ford’s mouth always gets him in trouble. Martin Regg Cohn writes that, if Doug Ford…
In memory of political prisoner Tom Manning: Revolution is Never Begun Anew
Some friends have put together a zine collecting the public statements made in memory of Tom Manning since he passed away on July 30th. I wanted to offer it to…
All Americans need decide Trump’s fate.
It seems undemocratic for Congress to decide the fate of the American president. As self-serving and as obnoxious as president Trump might be, he was the choice of American voters.…
There is more money spent on camping in the Trudeau Liberal platform than there is on gun violence
Think about that. Camping here. Guns here. Governments defeat themselves.
Download This Home
The standard North American home (pictured above) is horrible inefficient and quite bad for the environment. As the climate crisis conies to worsen we need to change the way we…
Disconnects and Infection #nlpoli
The handful of people who pay close attention to politics in Newfoundland and Labrador are probably scratching the barely-healed-over scabs on their head in the latest round of bewilderment. Tory…