Slipping in the Slogan.
It might surprise regular readers but this blogger does not believe in slogans. Oh yes, I use them, but more in sarcasm than in concurrence. It is just that I…
2019
Let’s Take A Break And Listen To Some Good Music-Bob Dylan and Toby Keith On The Young And Old Of It
Bollocks, Bollocks, and… what else? Ah yes, more BOLLOCKS
They are lying to you. Deliberately. Methodically. They use a playbook that was written by a maniac who believed so strongly in his own accidentally assigned tribal genome that he…
Bollocks, Bollocks, and… what else? Ah yes, more BOLLOCKS
They are lying to you. Deliberately. Methodically. They use a playbook that was written by a maniac who believed so strongly in his own accidentally assigned tribal genome that he…
Bollocks, Bollocks, and… what else? Ah yes, more BOLLOCKS
They are lying to you. Deliberately. Methodically. They use a playbook that was written by a maniac who believed so strongly in his own accidental tribal genome that he fatally…
Thirty-five years ago right now
September 4, 1984: 35 years ago today, I was on an Air Canada flight from Ottawa, heading home to Calgary to start law school. The pilot came on the blower.…
The Pallister Conservative threat to Manitoba Hydro
Photo by John Woods/CP Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister called a snap election for September 10, over a year before required under the province’s fixed election law. Undoubtedly this was done…
You Have to Read This – A Beautiful Fable for Caregivers
About a year ago, I opened an email message from someone I’d never met called Diane S. who wrote to tell me that this blog was meaningful to her. It…
BC Premier John Brown Is The Clear Cut Leader Of The New Brown Party (NBP)
Premier Christie Horgan or John Brown take your pick. Either way, we have been sold down the river by a premier without conscience or principle when it comes to the…
Enter the Senate?
Political scandals and stories can be a bit like water; no matter what, water wants to run and will run towards the openings it has available to it. Whenever a…
Debateable Tactics
There are many old sayings that go with politics and campaigns. These truisms come from hard learned experience and sometimes it amazes me just how true they continue to be…
Earthgauge Radio – Sept. 3, 2019
https://earthgauge.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/2019-09-03-12-00-00.mp3 On the show this week, an interview with the journalist and author Tatiana Schlossberg (begins at 27:50). Tatiana is a journalist and former NY Times Science writer who also…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Kate Aronoff asks how much destruction is needed before we’ll start taking climate change seriously – though the answer at this point looks…
The Revolution Has Arrived
There is a revolution going on in Britain. Jonathan Freedland writes: When some of the best-known Conservative figures of the last half-century are booted out of their party, when a…
Can Kenney, Curly (Ford) and Moe pull it off?
Conservative leader ‘Chuckles’ Scheer might not offer much of a challenge to Justin Trudeau but when you consider the three stooges running in the back field, it makes you think.…
‘Blue-Ribbon Panel’ report sets stage for full-blown austerity, private health care, soaring tuition and much more
The recommendations of the Kenney Government’s “blue-ribbon panel” on Alberta’s finances yesterday went further over the top than you’d even have expected from a report ginned up by a couple…
Are Justin Trudeau’s Liberals Heading For Victory Again?
I spent much of the long weekend out on the lake, watching some small but really fast sailing boats take advantage of a very strong wind to skim across the…
Maxime Bernier’s Crazed Assault On Greta Thunberg
Over the years Mad Max Bernier has always liked to portray himself as a dashing hero setting out to destroy political correctness and the dairy lobby, not necessarily in that…
Overcomer – Better than ‘The Blind Side’
I don’t write much here anymore, this is my first posting in over a year. But every once in a rare while I feel compelled to share my thoughts on…
island day trip with mom: grant bay and winter harbour
As we enter the last week of my mother’s extended visit, we took one last day trip, out to Grant Bay, on the west coast. As I’ve mentioned, there are…