November 2019
The Month of November – It’s Important for Two Reasons
November is a sombre month. The leaves have fallen where I live, and the skies are steely gray. Rain changes to sleet and then back to rain again. Geese cry…
How Do You Like Your Chances?
Maybe you think they’re just making this sh*t up. Maybe you would like to think they’re just making this sh*t up but you realize that they’re not. Maybe the enormity…
Time for Reflection
We live in an interesting time, and not always for the best reasons. Let’s face it, 2019 has been a crazy year and 2020 doesn’t promise to be much better.…
LEGAL OPINION-Mayor Al Siebring Is Overreaching With His VIMC Threaten and Rescue Play
Today North Cowichan Mayor Siebring and Council will wrestle with his threaten and rescue scheme designed to convince the council to back off of their 5-2 decision rejecting the GAIN…
Scotland Banned Fraking, Rest of UK to Follow
Fraking is really bad for all of us, it’s the process of using water to force dirty oil out of the ground. This practice destabilizes the ground causing earthquakes and…
A Sophisticated Scam That Almost Ensnared Me
I think we are all familiar with the garden-variety scams that are endemic on today’s Internet. Sometimes it is a Nigerian prince or princess offering to send us millions to…
Ford The Prairie Premier
Doug Ford has thrown in his lot with the prairie premiers — particularly Jason Kenney. And he rails about national unity. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Suddenly, our populist premier has…
A failure in leadership.
If conservative leader Andrew Scheer is looking for compassion, he is looking in the wrong places. There is no succor for losers in Toronto’s Albany club. Long the King Street…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Covered cats.
If We Don’t Heed Them Now, We’re SCREWED!
Parliament may have declared we’re in a state of climate emergency but, lamentably, there’s precious little evidence that they mean it. Canada remains bitumen country, pipeline country, and bugger the…
The Shifting Red Chamber
As we start to go into our new reality of minority government in Canada, there are many things that many observers need to pay attention to in order to stay…
“5 Questions” Interview(s) With Ontario Liberal Party Candidates: Mitzie Hunter
Mitzie Hunter is next up in answering some questions about her Ontario Liberal Party leadership run. You’ll find her relevant website and contact info below the very last answer of…
A Progressive Surge Is Brewing Across Latin America
Bolivian vice president Álvaro García Linera (left) with President Evo Morales A year ago, the corporatists and anti-socialist militarists in the administration of US president Donald Trump appeared ecstatic over…
Nov.5: The Insanity of Greed
(Sorry this blog is so late. I know I did send it out on time. But for some reason it stung it’s tongue at me and stepped back.) https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/scientists-declare-climate-emergency-1.5347486 Not…
Who Will Be The Next Leader of the Green Party?
I started writing this blogpost last week, figuring I had a lot of time before Elizabeth May announced that she’d be stepping down from her position as leader of the…
NC Mayor Siebring Calls ‘Secret Meeting’ Ahead Of North Cowichan Councils 1:30PM (Open Meeting.)
Wednesday is a big day for Mayor Siebring starting off with an in-camera session where he will attempt to sway the council into calling another Public Hearing to accommodate the…
My Gorge Rises
May your constitution prove stronger than mine. If God is ever in the mood for smiting someone, I’ve got the perfect candidate: How totally not shocking that Paula White, Trump's…
7 Books for a Facebook tag game
# Tagged for a stupid facebook meme — Oct 25, 2019 Will not tag anyone to end the Karma chain. No particular order, except the order in which I thought…