Wednesday Night Cat Blogging
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December 2019
Greta Thunberg Speaks At World Leaders Climate Summit at COP25
Please take a few minutes to listen. It is crucially important.RH ?
Council again votes ‘no’ on track expansion
Originally publishedn by The Discourse Council again votes ‘no’ on track expansion The Municipality of North Cowichan stood its ground in the face of $60 million lawsuit threat after a…
Hamilton Ontario: A Troubling Timeline
INTRODUCTION: Hamilton Ontario is in crisis. It may feel alarmist to use that word, but when the entirety of the year’s events are reviewed, it’s impossible to come to any…
Park board finally taking steps, carefully, to clear campers from Oppenheimer Park
The park board will engage a third-party group to assess the park’s current state and continue working with park residents to seek housing. Derrick Penner Updated: December 11, 2019 Vancouver’s…
Clean B.C. is quietly using coal and gas power from out of province. Here’s why.
Originally published by the Narwhal Clean B.C. is quietly using coal and gas power from out of province. Here’s why Behind the sheen of its CleanBC program, the province holds…
Greta Thunberg-A breath of fresh air delivering reality into the dark world of climate deniers
BY CHARLOTTE ALTER, SUYIN HAYNES AND JUSTIN WORLAND PHOTOGRAPHS BY EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA FOR TIME Greta Thunberg sits in silence in the cabin of the boat that will take her across…
More Evidence That The Emperor Has No Clothes
The Mound notified me that he is having problems accessing his blog, and so directed me to the following story. Given the stellar job he has been doing on the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – As affordability takes a central place in most Canadian election campaigns, Kofi Hope and Katrina Miller propose a definition based on public health:…
Earthgauge News – Dec. 10, 2019
https://earthgauge.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/mixdown-2019-12-10.mp3 Environmental news featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Broadcast every other Tuesday at 12:00 noon EST on CKCU radio 93.1 FM in Ottawa or online at…
Person of the Year vs. A Nobody
Maxime Bernier said Greta Thunberg was “clearly mentally unstable.” He said she was “not only autistic, but obsessive-compulsive, eating disorder, depression.” Today Greta Thunberg was named TIME’s Person of the…
Good Conversations Might Need Some Regulation
You’ve probably already seen this pop up in your filter bubble a couple weeks ago but I want to make sure it’s not forgotten. Facebook (and likely other platforms) are…
First, Attack Education
The pattern is pretty clear. Wherever conservative governments come into power, one of their first targets is education. It has happened in Ontario. And it is happening there again. But…
In defence of First-Past-the-Post.
Write a few comments on how we vote and suffer the outrage of readers. Write about something serious and it’s ‘ho-hum.’ It’s not fair, you know. Last week I was…
All three parties in NL gain in polls #nlpoli
The latest poll from Narrative Research shows the distorting effective of disregarding the “undecideds”. The number of people who didn’t pick a political party dropped seven percentages points compared to…
Regardless of Tyler Shandro’s promises, private clinics won’t shorten surgical wait times — they’ll make them longer
Using private medical clinics to remedy long wait times for surgeries in Alberta’s public health care system, as the United Conservative Party Government says it expects to do, is about…
Is This the Line in the Sand?
Crunch time. How far will Trudeau go to placate Alberta? Premier Kenney may just have drawn the line in the sand. He has said that the federal government faces a…
Reality is Confirmed
Reality is essentially what science tells us it is. Everything else is speculation. About the worst story about reality that science has been telling us lately is that we are…
Can someone tell me what is going on in Alberta?
I don’t really follow Alberta news, but the constant “cut, cut, cut” and “whine, whine, whine” I am hearing from there recently is getting chaotic. Does the Alberta UCP government…
A Re-examination of An Old Story: Jake Logan Findell
It has been more than a year since Ricochet published a piece linking a UCP staff member to an overly racist online military surplus store: Adam Strashok (left) with former…