November 2019
Depression, anxiety and total honesty
Right here.
For The Stupid, This Is Just Another Attack On Their Idol
For the rest of us, the following is not only a summation of Trump’s duplicity over his efforts to extort the Ukrainians for personal political advantage, but also an indictment…
Lest we forget
Chief Petty Officer Margaret Louise Byam — my mother. I have often wondered now why she did it, but she died before I thought to ask her. A small-town Prairie…
What’s Going On In Our Waters? The Climate Crisis.
Until a couple of years ago coastal British Columbia had masses of purple starfish. Then something wiped them out. Sea star wasting disease hit hard and fast. The disease arrived…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Arwa Mahdawi writes that the outsized influence wielded by billionaires makes them something beyond merely wealthy people. Tom Whyman challenges the worship…
Enter Bloomberg
It looks like Michael Bloomberg will enter the presidential race. Whether or not that will be good for the Democratic Party is an open question But Maureen Dowd writes, things…
Canada’s elitist senate studies itself.
An argument in Canada’s senate recently was whether an independent member could spend public money to study the public attitude about the senate. While we are not entirely clear on…
Dead Souls
Listened to Joy Division on the way back into the city yesterday. It was the right soundtrack for a cold and bleak November landscape. Played Dead Souls three times. What…
Alone
Kristof in the Times: We humans make a lonely crowd, and it’s killing us. Social isolation is more lethal than smoking 15 cigarettes a day, or than obesity, according to…
Oilberta
Alberta has long been a puppet of the oil and gas business but Kenney’s compulsion to deliver benefits to this private sector is unprecedented. It is as if Alberta’s right…
Wexit – Discord and Drama
Wexit has proven to be a fragmented movement, rife with drama. While the mainstream media continues to provide them more credibility than necessary, despite blatant problems with both those who…
North Cowichan Mayor Al Siebring-Cowichan Conversations Blogger Not On The Same Page
Following the controversial North Cowichan Council Public Hearing on GAIN’s Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit Expansion bid and the subsequent council meeting, much has been reported and commented on several forums…
Nov. 9: The very dangerous world created by —-us.
https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/features/sea-ice-is-an-endangered-species-declining-rapidly-in-canadas-north A footnote – In World War 1, the British had also taken control of Iran. And it forced Iran to supply the British navy with oil free of charge…
Where I was today
No one tried to kill me, so it was a qualified success. Had the pleasure of meeting rockstar journalist @kinsellawarren today. He made some excellent points on why we did…
Gifters (Allegedly) Gotta Grift II: Ronny Cameron Jumps on Wexit Bandwagon and Joey Deluca Thinks He’s A Mobster (And is Racists AF)
Back on October 27 I wrote an article in which I discussed Steven Myatt’s apparent ghosting of a person he owes money to after his relocation to Alberta. He had…
The Brits Banned Fracking. Not Ottawa, And It’s Ruining the Atmosphere.
A study out of Cornell has found that the fracking boom in the US and Canada is the chief culprit in the large spike in atmospheric methane levels. Professor Robert…
Yeah, A Tanker-Free Zone. Except When Ottawa Says Otherwise.
Ottawa needs to leave the safety of the west coast to the grownups. Ottawa’s department of fisheries and oceans seems intent on wreaking as much havoc in the Pacific as…
Saturday Photo: Just to Remember on a Day When Snow Falls Gently
This was what it was like last summer in Mount Royal Cemetery. Blue sky and green grass. It will come again, I have every hope. Until then, keep warm.