VanDusen Festival of Lights set to sparkle for 35th year
November 29 2019 The enchanting VanDusen Festival of Lights (FOL) is set to sparkle for another holiday season starting tomorrow. And tickets are selling fast. More than a million lights…
November 2019
Nov. 30: Our Seventy-Five Years of Failure to Make a Better World.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-belt-and-road-central-europe-1.5370854 Like it or lump it, China has made huge economic progress since 1945. And, unlike the U.S., that progress has also benefited the huge numbers of Chinese who were…
North Cowichan Council To Consider The Following Far Reaching Resolution
This motion is to be discussed and debated as the last item of business of the December 4th Council Meeting, December 4th, 1:30 PM in Council Chambers. NOTICE…
It Can Be Done
I was surprised that the concept of the New Green Deal has been around for over a decade. Far more ambitious than the Green Shift once proposed by Stephan Dion,…
What’s More Dangerous – Climate Change or Our Political Leadership?
A recurring theme on this blog has been the precipitous decline in political leadership in Canada and many other nations during the neoliberal era. Professor, historian and celebrated futurist, Yuval…
Follow The Money
Paul Krugman writes that the Republican Party, officially known as the GOP — The Grand Old Party — is actually the COP — The Corrupt Old Party: The G.O.P. is…
Saturday Photo: Jade Plant in Full Bloom
First let me say that I kill orchids, and can’t get African violets to bloom. Don’t know why, but after several years of trying, I’m faced with defeat on that…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Olivia Bowden reports on new research showing that the harmful health effects of air pollution are even worse than previously known. – But…
Musical interlude
Meg Myers – Running Up That Hill
A narwhal tusk and a fire extinguisher
Heroes still walk among us.
Ontario liberals are down but not out.
There are entirely too many media people who think that the Ontario liberals have been shut down. What they do not seem to understand is that a political party is…
Groundhog Day on Black Friday! With 5,000 job cuts planned, perpetual chaos returns to health care in Alberta
With yesterday’s announcement the Alberta Government intends to wipe out close to 5,000 jobs in public health care by 2023, and another 2,500 or so in other parts of the…
ARC Celebrates 12 Years on Blogger: Some Big Changes In The Works
NOTE If you are considering supporting ARC’s work financially, we have a Patreon account. It was 12 years ago that I posted this message to what would become one of…
Visiting Britain’s political prisoner By John Pilger
Visiting Britain’s political prisoner By John Pilger John Pilger November 28/29, 2019 “Information Clearing House” – I set out at dawn. Her Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh is in the flat…
Pre-COP25 Panel of Speakers
A headache kept me home from work today, so I got some fresh air and checked out the climate strike. It was great timing for the strike, on Black Friday,…
The Political Masochism Of The Sad Loser Andrew Scheer
Only Andrew Scheer knows why he is refusing to resign. Is he a glutton for punishment like his buddies at Opus Dei?Does he believe that his Godzilla has commanded him…
The Quality and the Rabble in American Government
The health of democracy, indeed government generally, often rests more with the quality of a country’s civil servants than with the quality of its politicians and their associates. Rarely have…
If Saudi Arabia is in trouble, the rest of the oil-producing world should probably start to panic.
Governments Need to Face Reality — the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Collapsing Government still subsidizes the oil and gas industry, even as the Bank of Canada warns of…
NEED TO KNOW INFO ON MOBILITY SCOOTERS
I am pleased to host this guest post about mobility scooters - what kind of questions to ask a salesperson and how to locate funding assistance, no matter where you…