Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
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2019
The Little Shit is At It Again. Scheer – Pipelines are "National Unity."
Despite those among us who vouchsafe Andrew Scheer, the Tory leader is a malevolent little shit. The latest proof is Scheer’s attack on Trudeau, accusing the incredibly petro-friendly prime minister…
Absolve This
A certain former Liberal, by his own account a Liberal of some past prominence, has gone out of his way to vouchsafe that Andrew Scheer is not even a bit…
June 4: Capitalists are changing the world. Isn’t that nice of them? Er……
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/02/bilderberg-pompeo-kushner-nato-stoltenberg Guess who Pompeo and Kushner represent in government._______________________________________________________________ Take Bilderberg very, very seriously. The kind of people who belong to it are the same breed as the British capitalists…
Grand scale giveaway
Why the NDP has decided to fight teachers and not the gas industry is a mystery to me. The volume of BC natural gas production has increased substantially in the…
Forget About the Long Term. We Might be Lucky to Reach the Mid-Term.
By 2050 human civilization, as we’ve known it, could be over. That’s the conclusion of an Aussie think tank in a report written by a former fossil fuel executive and…
Are these ‘senators NUTS?
I have returned briefly to tell these mostly Conservative Albertan Senators to get their collective heads out of their collective arse’s … do they really think a few dollars in…
There’s not much Jason Kenney’s ‘war room’ can do to ease medical concerns about health impacts of climate change
FREDERICTON, N.B. – Whatever will Jason Kenney’s $30-million “war room” do about people like the nurses and physicians around the world growing increasingly troubled by the health impacts of climate…
Okay, Now Can We Stop?
So much for good intentions – of which the Road to Hell is paved. For the seventh consecutive year, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are up. They’re just going up and,…
It’s this, it’s that, it’s whatever
What we have here is failure to communicate. Again.
Siren Call of the Despots or The Dictators’ Dance
It’s fair to say, no matter if you support the Liberals, NDP or Greens, you probably see menace in the rise of rightwing populism. It’s a tenacious thing, one that…
Disturbing Morning in Committee
Our parliamentary system has many different parts to it, some of which we don’t see as often. Everyday you can turn on CPAC and watch what’s going on in the…
Work Less to Save the Planet
You already know you’re working too many hours, so let’s change that and save the planet in the process. Economic growth has physical limits and we’re hitting those already as…
Bad Business
So called free trade deals with the United States are worthless. Consider, Tom Walkom writes, the recently re-negotiated USMCA: It has been under renegotiation since Trump became president in 2017.…
Shameful Self-Abasement
The Toronto Star reports that there has been a furious social media backlash against shameful propaganda displays like the following, as the Ontario government seeks to break a 10-year-deal with…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – In his Arnold Amber Memorial Lecture, Alex Himelfarb offers his take on the dangers of austerity and the loss of collective action:…
No party politics for Jane n’ Jody.
It had been puzzling many of us just where former liberals Jane Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould got the crazy idea of running as independent candidates. Neither had shown much political…
Monday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – John Paul Tasker reports on the final report of the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. And Kenyon Wallace highlights…