RESIGN NOW
Justin Trudeau in blackface when he was a teacher. This guy is unfit for public office. He needs to resign, but he won’t. So: fire him on October 21.
September 2019
Bianca Andreescu And The Unspeakable Depravity Of The Cons
As you may know Bianca Andreescu is Canada's newest and brightest professional tennis star.The first Canadian to win a Grand Slam singles title.So the other day about 10,000 people in…
Meet Another Of Andrew Scheer’s Ghastly Religious Fanatics
Heather Leung is the Con candidate in the B.C. riding of Burnaby-North Seymour, and a bit of a mystery woman.One who hasn't granted the media an interview since she was…
Inside Influences
One thing I’ve been watching closely in the run up to and during the current federal election campaign has been the influence of third-party groups. More and more these third…
The Butcher’s Bill – Six Billion
Nobody wants to dwell on this. Fewer still are willing to talk about it. It’s a chilling conclusion of what our petro-economy has in store for humanity this century. Six…
Taxing Wealth to Create a More Equal Canada
This is a longer, wonkier version of a piece I wrote for National Newswatch. As part of a broader fair tax agenda, Jagmeet Singh and the federal New Democratic Party…
Sensitive to smoking content.
This image also is being suppressed for sensitive content on Twitter. I can only assume it shows either smoke, or a person smoking. Post at LondOntLife. https://londontlife.wordpress.com/2019/09/17/this-aint-holland-yah-know/
‘NO FUTURE, NO CHILDREN’ UNTIL GOVERNMENTS ADDRESS CLIMATE CRISIS, CANADIAN YOUTH DECLARE
Climate Strike Canada/Facebook A group of more than 450 youth, most of them Canadian, are declaring they won’t have children until they see the federal government taking sufficient action…
Newfoundland preps for more offshore oil as climate crisis deepens
An advance leak from the forthcoming United Nations (U.N.) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on Oceans and Cryosphere confirms that the climate crisis is deepening. According to the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Emily Stewart reports on Elizabeth Warren’s message about the need to end corruption and corporatism in order to make U.S. politics work for…
Doug Ford: Foreshadowing Andrew Scheer Conservatives
Doug Ford – Ontario’s embarrassing foreshadowing of Andrew Scheer backroom policies.
Closer Than We Think
It is probably to state the obvious that, being a tribal and insular species, we tend to be less moved by disasters when they occur far from our shores. But…
The Hits Keep Coming
It’s been a very rough start to the 43rd General Election for Elizabeth May’s Green Party. Between candidate vetting that’s proved to be lacking, a poor platform launch with gaffes…
Scheer is running a boring, bland, basic campaign – and it seems to be working
I think there a few factors at work here: Doug Ford decided to lay low for the Summer and the federal campaign, and it’s helping Andrew Scheer in seat-rich Ontario…
Racing Toward An Uninhabitable Planet
William Rees believes that the climate crisis could cause mass human extinction. He writes: On Aug. 15, in a memorable session of the BBC’s HardTalk, Hallam irritated multiple cultural nerves…
Singh seeks separatist support.
The NDP’s leader Jagmeet Singh must be desperate. In a province that discriminates against people such as him because of his turban, he is pandering to the péquiste to try…
Dippers go home #nlpoli
The latest quarterly poll from Narrative Research shows that a gaggle of folks who were likely New Democratic Party supporters returned to the fold in the past quarter and are…
We Know What We Want. It’s Not on Offer.
It speaks for itself.
Not on time, not on budget
Since actual payments are almost 3x the contractual obligation, it looks like the Sea to Sky Highway improvement project will eventually cost $1.5 billion. And remember, the province financed one…
Sensitive contentment: Doug Ford not smoking.
In response to a tweet, I went searching for this image. It was used in an editorial cartoon parodying Doug Ford, an alleged youthful drug dealer, now premier of the…