My Excellent Summer and the Horror of the Cons
It's been an amazing summer so far in the place where I live. And now that I'm on holiday I've been trying to enjoy every minute.The blue sky days, the…
2019
Thieving Bastards
The View from Oxford & Maitland Theft as defined by Merriam-Webster1a:: the act of stealing specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the…
My tenth book is done!
Way above Alberta, the final book in the @XPUNKBOOK triology is done! My 10th book! Dunno if it’s any good, but I’m so grateful to @dundurnpress – and to @SFHPunks…
Europe – Round Two
It seems like just last month that Europe was enduring a heatwave that saw a pile of all time temperature records broken. Wait, why it was just last month. Ah,…
Commissioner Dumont’s substitution motion aimed at a fundamental paradigm shift around water management
VANCOUVER, B.C. – At last night’s Park Board meeting, Green Commissioner Camil Dumont substituted a motion introduced by Commissioner Coupar with one of his own. Coupar’s original motion asked the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Niki Ashton writes about Justin Trudeau’s glaring failure to understand the importance of parity in services and genuine nation-to-nation recognition as core elements…
backyard baby bear
This adorable little dude was not actually in our backyard, but close enough! He or she was just over the back fence of our next-door neighbour’s yard. He was crying…
Yukon ho! Free Warren travel tweet thread
At Pearson, heading to Yukon, and the airline is refusing to permit me to board with my security rattlesnake. I intend to make a human rights complaint at the earliest…
It’s OK to Not Wash Your Clothes
Want to save the planet? Reduce how often you wash your clothes, you don’t need to wash your shirt that you wore for only one day. This is something you…
They’ve Multiplied
It’s official. Boris Johnson is now the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. And a lot of Britons know who they’re getting. Jonathan Manthorpe writes: Everyone knows — even those…
Literary Surprise
In the run up to any election, observers are always trying to read the tea leaves about wat that campaign might bring. We look at polling, both public domain and…
Showing the Scheer Sneer.
Since Andrew Scheer was made clerk of the House of Commons by Stephen Harper’s conservatives, it has been impossible to find common ground between the two of us. And it…
Jim Stanford Part II: An Australian cautionary tale for Alberta and Canada
What do Albertans imagine will happen if we manage to build more pipelines to tidewater, as the ocean is known out here on the Great Plains of North America? Going…
Rhetoric subjugated reason
In British Columbia, the energy ministry is staffed by regulators who don’t believe in regulation. That is a BC Liberal philosophy sustained by NDP timidity because the Horgan Government is…
July 23:"This is the way the world ends….
Not with a bang, but a whimper.”______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/20/britain-lured-into-deadly-trap-on-iran-by-trump-hawk-john-bolton I thought Trump had quietly, with saying so, dumped John Bolton. Apparently, he hasn’t. And Iran is now a super dangerous war…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Festooned cats.
Guest Article: The Canadian Far-Right an Eco’s Hallmarks of Fascism
I had been planning on writing an article for the blog detailing Umberto Eco's fourten hallmarks of fascism and even started gathering some relevant screenshots (some of which I have…
Moe Promotes Car With Racist Flag
The Premier of Saskatchewan has posted a Confederate flag on his Twitter account. One whole day later and he still hasn’t deleted this. — Michael Poos (@michaelpoos) July 23, 2019…
Earthgauge News – July 23, 2019
https://earthgauge.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/mixdown-2019-07-22.mp3 Environmental news podcast 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…
Botie, Yamnaya, then a few centuries later, a grandfather in Italy.
The Nature of Things – Equus: The Story of the Horse – First Riders https://gem.cbc.ca/share/episode/38e815a-010b367336d