Ford’s Mike Envy
Like premiers before him, Doug Ford has gone to war with Ontario’s teachers. Martin Regg Cohn writes that Ford is hoping for his Mike Harris moment: For months, the Progressive…
December 2019
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Brigid Delaney writes about the significance of the truth about climate breakdown. Graham Readfearn reports on the risk of outright firestorms as bush…
Requiem for GM.
After a lifetime of driving North American cars, I switched to a Korean import this year. Price was just one reason. It was heart-wrenching to give up the comfort and…
He’s Right. There Are Other, More Dangerous Things We Have to Deal With
So, prime minister Justin Trudeau comes out and says that the reported discontent in Alberta and Saskatchewan is not a threat to national unity. I think Justin just grew a…
Annals of the Energy War Room: Square-pipeline logo to be dumped like a bad first date
The Alberta Energy War Room’s logo will be unceremoniously dumped like a bad first date. It turns out the iconic square-pipeline symbol that was supposedly rustled up just for Canadian…
Could America’s Evangelicals Break With Trump? Cracks Emerge.
Its roots go right back to its founder, Billy Graham. The magazine, Christianity Today, is calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment and removal from office and it isn’t pulling any punches.…
Dec. 19: Let’s face it. most of the world, including Canada, is ruled by thieving bastards
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/wildfires-sydney-nsw-state-of-emergency-1.5402008 Well, that just proves there is no climate change happening. Right?_________________________________________________________________https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/greece-samos-migrant-camp-1.5402117 And how typical of Christians in the western world!_________________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/australia-hottest-day-on-record-1.5400409Nope. Not a sign of climate change._______________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-wilson-raybould-snc-lavalin-1.5401353 SNC…
Jody Wilson-Raybould and the Pathetic End Of The Fake Scandal
As I'm sure you know, Jody Wilson-Raybould has been refusing to vacate a suite of offices on Parliament Hill that were assigned to her when she was a cabinet minister.Even…
Shipping Containers Are Being Converted To Small Shelters
Housing options are being implemented. CHEKNEWS.CA From shipping containers to shelters: Courtenay creates housing solutions They might be small measuring just 20 feet long, by 8 feet wide and 9.5…
B.C.’s clear-cut forests are ‘dead zones,’ emitting more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels, report finds
Old-growth forests are particularly adept at capturing carbon Clare Hennig · CBC News · Posted: Dec 18, 2019 3:57 PM PT | Last Updated: December 18 An aerial shot of…
We Might Have A White Christmas In Cowichan
Possible snow over holidays on B.C.’s South Coast It looks like the Fraser Valley and Nanaimo might have a white Christmas, while Metro Vancouver may see some flurries overnight on…
Andrew Scheer and the Latest Con Scandal
It's a truly bizarre situation. After two years of assaulting the eyes and ears of Canadians with one depraved attack ad after the other, Andrew Scheer has gone silent.He's disappeared…
@KaleighRogers and @CBCNews: so completely devoid of self-awareness, it is actually almost funny
Read this posting about a “news story” by the CBC’s Kaleigh Rogers and Andrea Bellemaire. See (a) how fundamentally dishonest Rogers is and (b) how they inserted deeply-personal, wildly-out-of-context private…
A Progressive Lesson from 2019
As we’re well into the Holiday season now, many people are looking back at 2019 and also looking ahead to 2020. 2019 has been a crazy year and has left…
Madness
Yesterday, Donald Trump was impeached. Listening to the logical fallacies the Republicans were spouting, it’s clear that madness has descended upon at least one of the political parties. But, Gail…
Stiffing Steel City.
Why does everyone take a swipe at Hamilton? It was over 100 years ago that STELCO was created and ever since, the city, the province and our country have benefitted…
Original Pynn Post
North Cowichan contacted racetrack owners before last week’s council meeting Controversial new land offer for Cowichan Tribes ensued By Larry Pynn As a journalist over the years, I have discovered…
Rebranded ‘War Room’ aims for ‘measured tone’ in riposte to acerbic Medicine Hat News column, doesn’t quite succeed
All the Alberta Government’s rebranded Energy War Room is trying to do, pleaded Managing Director Tom Olsen yesterday in his much anticipated riposte to an acerbic column last week in…
This Be The Verse
I find myself reading a number of the advice columnists these days. And as I read about all the problems people have with their families, I often think of this…