Tucker, Mr. Trump Isn’t Going to be Happy About This.
Where is Michael Cohen now that Trump needs a man with his skills set? Oh, that’s right. He’s in prison. With world leaders caught laughing behind Trump’s back, the last…
December 2019
Starting the 43rd Parliament
So today was the big day that we’ve been waiting for ever since the 43rd General Election ended. We saw the official return of the House of Commons, the election…
This Sounds Crazy But, Hey, It’s Climate Change
Few know the reality of climate change better than the insurance industry. Insurers have to sell policies. If they don’t, they put themselves out of business. They have to set…
We have a new Speaker of the House…
Congratulations/Félicitations Anthony Rota! We have a new Speaker of the House… A little bit about the Speaker of the House, just in case you skipped, failed, or otherwise have no…
Melania’s Delicate Sensibilities
She’s America’s ‘first lady’ and, boy, is that a tough gig. Melania Trump went after impeachment hearing witness, law professor Pamela Karlan, who told the Congressional committee that Trump could…
Relapse. They’re Back to "Rocket Man" and "Dotard"
Hmmm, nice hair! Maybe it’s just another lovers’ tiff. It began when the Mango Mussolini revived ‘rocket man’ when referring to North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un. That got up Kim’s backside…
Evaluation of CL/4291 “Draft text of the Recommendation concerning Open Educational Resources”, UNESCO
This is the analysis of the UNESCO OER resolution I provided to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO prior to the discussion and vote on the resolution concerning Open Educational Resources…
The Con Media and the Fake Trudeau Trump Scandal
For more than two years the CBC program Power and Politics has been a television playground for Andrew Scheer and his foul Cons.A place where Vassy Kapelos and her mostly…
Housing in Cowichan is becoming less affordable and less available
Originally published by the Discourse “It was quite the turmoil,” Jan MacKirdy says of her three-month search for a rental. “David Minkow/The Discourse Cowichan Residents struggle as it gets more…
Things Fall Apart
The idea of entropy comes from a principle of thermodynamics dealing with energy. It usually refers to the idea that everything in the universe eventually moves from order to disorder,…
Patrik Mathews in United States: Training Base Members in Georgia
Well this is less than reassuring: Scoop: @MackLamoureux, @ZacharyKamel and I learned from sources that neo-Nazi terror group The Base are hiding Patrik Mathews, the missing Canadian ex-soldier with explosives…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Linda McQuaig writes about the fallout from the ideology of constant privatization – and a precedent from Canada’s past as to how…
Other world leaders make hot mic missteps, too
Obama, Reagan, Bush, Sarkozy, you name it. Happens to the best (and worst) of them.
Of Course They Laugh At Him
Collective horror is sweeping the press. The leaders of NATO were caught laughing at Donald Trump behind his back. Susan Delacourt wonders what it’s all about: Did you hear the…
Let’s Use Airships Instead of Airplanes
Travelling via airplane is safe for you as an individual, but collectively all of using planes is unsafe. At ground level the emissions from airplanes are bad and are even…
When something becomes A Thing
And the NATO “hot microphone” thing has indeed turned into A Thing. My regular readers didn’t care what I had to say about it, either: Conservative followers and friends were…
Trump’s Triumph?
It will only be after someone translates the French word “merde” for him that Donald Trump will really know what the audience of world leaders thought of his plans for…
Steady as she goes
The 40% demand growth over 20 years is a fantasy spun for so long that it is baked into BC Hydro’s DNA. No surprise. Not spending billions of dollars to…
Alberta’s Great Panderer
Four years ago during the 2015 federal election I suggested that Stephen Harper was basically throwing the election and that Justin Trudeau was the banking elite’s favorite and would probably…
Returning to action
My consumer testing of BC’s healthcare system is now complete so activity at In-Sights will resume this week. As Arlo Guthrie said 52 years ago, “You walk in, you get…