In other news, water is wet
Elizabeth Thompson’s CBC report about Daisy Group vs. Bernier’s People’s Party is very fair and quite accurate. If you are busy, and don’t have time to read it all, it…
October 2019
“Humble”
I think an important part of being humble is to actually just be humble, and not talk about it, and let people notice you are being humble. As opposed to…
Whither The Conservative Party?
Since Monday’s election, Andrew Scheer’s continued leadership of the Conservative Party has become an open question. Chantal Hebert writes: Since election night, Scheer has tried to cast the result as…
The Hot Nasties: The Ballad of the Social Blemishes
Couldn’t sleep, started late-night Googling. These Calgary teenaged miscreants somehow came up. Wonder where they are now?
Saturday Photo: Eviction Notice for Ducks?
Not sure which way the causality ran, but the family (or families, not sure if there were two) of 11 ducks which spent the summer in neighborhood parks have flown…
Breaking news: opposition research firm does opposition research
From CBC, earlier today: On his Kinsellacast podcast, an unapologetic Kinsella said the campaign to spotlight racists who attached themselves to the fledgling party was not supposed to extend into…
A surfeit of opinions.
For the first time, it seemed that there really were more than enough opinions on this election. Not only did we have the political blogs and usual social media postings…
Red Deer-raised author Anar Ali’s Night of Power tops Audreys Books Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers List
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton during the week ended Oct. 20, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
A speculative history of my Y DNA 3
Micheal Rogers, (not surprisingly, not a relation) wise moderator of the FamilyTreeDNa project Rogers/Rodgers comments on this rare entire lack of DNA matches. … it’s apparent that your own ancestral…
Musical interlude
Pale Waves – There’s A Honey
The Humbling of the Religious Fanatic Andrew Scheer
Andrew Scheer is looking a lot more humble than he was just two days ago, when he described his humiliating loss as a " first step" to victory.And said he…
"Living the Storm Before the Storm" Nikiforuk on Blue Canada Versus Red Canada.
The Tyee’s petro-scribe, Andrew Nikiforuk, digests the indigestible aftermath of our federal election. Hint: it bodes no good. Once again we have been reminded that Canada’s political parties behave like…
Time For Reflection
While the battle for climate-change mitigation will be won or lost by regulating the big polluters, it is all too easy for us to scrutinize them to the exclusion of…
Oct 24: very difficult time coming.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/exxon-shell-climate-change-court-new-york-attorney-general-litigation-documents-1.5331228 Is climate change happening? Scientists all over the world say it is. In some countries it has already caused tremendous damage – to people and to architecture. Stopping it…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Robert Frank reports on the latest galling threshold in wealth inequality, as millionaires consisting of less than 1% of the population now control…
Doing Whatever He Wants
The King can do no wrong. That’s a ancient legal maxim which has no place in a democracy — because democracies aren’t ruled by kings. But, Ruth Marcus writes, Donald…
Turning Talent into Skills and Skills into Success
Summary of a talk by Ekwow Spio-Garbrah at eLearning Africa. The challenge for everyone is to find out how gto give back before moving to the next level of existence.…
Justin Trudeau doesn’t do humble.
The media seemed to see Justin Trudeau’s speech on Wednesday as contrition. It was not. Not in the minds of many liberals who worked to give him this second chance.…
Linda Nanan Vallee at eLearning Africa
Summary of a talk by Linda Nanan Vallee at eLearning Africa. I felt close to something Jef said earlier, about the mission we have on Earth. So I just wanted…