He believes in free speech, except when it’s about him
Just found out from a reporter that Maxime Bernier, that proud free speech absolutist, is suing me for libel. More to come.
December 2019
No Rosy Future
There is a way to lead a political party after a defeat. Robin Sears writes that Tommy Douglas was a master of the art: Having lost more elections than any…
A stealth pipeline?
You do realize, do you not, that the Trans Mountain pipeline is being twinned as you read this? Yes, the federal cabinet has obviously, and quietly, given the pipe people…
Things just keeping getting weirder in Alberta as Jason Kenney sings the Moody Blues!
If a tree falls in the forest and Jason Kenney isn’t there to hear it, is it still the sound of European environmentalists and the Rockefellers plotting against Alberta’s ethical…
How Justin Trudeau Helped Make Trump A Laughing Stock
Well just as I predicted, the Trudeau Trump fake scandal went nowhere in Canada, and expired shortly after it was born. Despite the frantic efforts of Vassy Kapelos, and other…
A most Spectacular Mistake…..
Brexit has been “one of the most spectacular mistakes” in the history of the EU and followed a campaign marked by “an unprecedented readiness to lie”, Donald Tusk has said.…
2020 New Year’s Levee
It’s been a shit year. You all know why. And all of you have been pretty amazing to me. So, I’m going to have a New Year’s Day levee thing…
BC Government Forced To Come Clean On Hundreds of Millions of Dollars In Subsidies To Fossil Fuel Companies.
Highly Respected CCPA Journalist Ben Parfitt For more than two years, the British Columbia government has vigorously fought efforts to compel the release of information on the hundreds of millions…
Saturday Photo: Sunny Winter Day…
Yes, I know, I’ve posted this before but it fits today perfectly–sunny, some snow, and people outside enjoying themselves. This winter has started out with a lot of energy but…
Is Kenney Costing Alberta Investment and Jobs?
Calgary Economic Development CEO Mary Moran reported recently that a tech company that had considered setting up its head office in Calgary had changed it mind. The reason? Talk of…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Abby Innes writes that the UK’s general election reflects a decision point as to whether to discard neoliberalism to serve the public, or…
Well, We’re Killing the Atmosphere but We Can Do Better. How About the Oceans?
We usually think of climate change as what happens to us on dry land. Heatwaves, droughts, floods, severe storm events, that sort of thing. We rarely think that most of…
Universal PharmaScare vs PharmaCare
PharmaSCARE: creating a massive ongoing transfer of wealth from taxpayers to pharmaceutical companies under the pretense of ‘care’.
Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
According to this group of crazed evangelicals, all is well in the world thanks to God’s chosen one occupying the White House. My suspicion is there was a full moon…
Dec. 7: We have met the enemy…and he is us… (thanks to Pogo for those wise words.)
The last time I was in China, I saw lots of high rise buildings in Hong Kong. But not in mainland China cities like Beijing. Traffic in Hong Kong? You…
Waging War On Education
The Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation has declared another one day strike for next week. Martin Regg Cohn writes: A one-day strike in public high schools is a declaration of…
There has to be a pony in there.
You cannot have all that cast-off material from a barnyard without a pony in there somewhere. The speech-from-the-throne writers must have figured that if you have to use weasel words,…
Musical interlude
Slowdive – Sugar for the Pill