Episode 32: GSAs, GSAs, GSAs. Week 2 of Alberta’s Election.
Alberta’s provincial election is 16 days away and for the duration of the campaign, we are going to be recording a new episode of the Daveberta Podcast each week. In…
2019
Tale of the tape
What are the reasons for taping someone? Lots of reasons. When you know the someone is a fucking liar, for instance, and you know they’ll later lie about what was…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment: Socialized Medicine Began In Alberta
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment: Socialized Medicine Began In Alberta: ‘Alberta sets the agenda for Canada’ Jean Charest 1996 HEALTH CARE REFORM OR MANAGEMENT REFORM When we hear about…
Who made the call?
This Political Potshots post nicely captures some obvious concerns about the ethics of the “Noble One”‘ taping her phone conversation with Michael Wernick. As does this one by Excited Delirium.…
GSAs…Here we go again
Last Thursday Mr and Ms Soapbox joined hundreds of Calgarians protesting Mr Kenney’s plan to out kids who join gay-straight alliances (GSAs) in schools. The question on everyone’s mind was…
"The Sun is Setting on Justin Trudeau"
It’s clear that prime minister Justin Trudeau has lost whatever goodwill he and his government once had with Canada’s First Nations. It’s over and that will be felt as the…
Are JWR/JP and friends familiar with the story of the Cambridge 5?
So JWR has shown herself to be an unethical as well as an incompetent MoJaAG. I expect JWR/JP, their co-conspirators and useful idiots in the Opposition parties, media and political…
Be Grateful. Better Yet, Act Like You’re Grateful.
One of the climate scientists I’ve dealt with in recent years is Camilo Mora, head of the Mora climate lab at the University of Hawaii. Mora’s team made the papers…
The Next Drip
Sunday mornings are times that I look forward to; it’s a nice time to usually take it somewhat easier, spend some time with the family and given the person who…
Faith Goldy Defends ID Canada After Vice Article
In discussing the murder of 50 Muslim worshipers in Christchurch, New Zealand once can't help but note that the title of the murderer's fevered ranting that he generously calls a…
Britain Braces for "Hottest Spring Ever" What’s Coming Our Way?
Yesterday Alaska set a record for the earliest 70 degree day ever recorded. Parts of the UK hit 90 F. Next up for the Brits is a blast of Arctic…
Stuff Happens IV, The Reckoning, week 13: On GSAs, Mueller and JWR’s illegal wiretap
We all know that Donald Trump is a dirtbag, but is he a worse dirtbag than Justin Trudeau? An Ipsos poll on Thursday gave Trudeau an approval rating of 40%,…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jake Bittle writes about rural homelessness as a seldom-discussed issue which calls out for a strong policy response to ensure the right…
A reminder of what #LavScam is all about
As we enter the week in which @JustinTrudeau will expel two women who stood up for the principle of prosecutorial independence, here is what the prosecutors themselves had to say…
Ford the Control Freak
Doug Ford wants to upload the cost — and the control — of the Toronto subway system to the province. Martin Regg Cohn writes that there’s a certain logic to…
I’m sorry … Canada’s Top Lawyer Did What?
I’m appalled that the once Attorney General has such a cynical view of the law.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day…
As inept and foolish as the Ford government in Ontario might be, you have to admit it when occasionally the chuckleheads do something right. It is like when the impossibly…
How to save a province by destroying it: Jason Kenney releases the Full Monty, political version
About that 117-page “full platform” released by United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney on the billionaire Southern Family’s back stoop south of Calgary yesterday, the first thing it’ll do is…
March 30: a bad, bad, day.
News about Venezuela remains pretty fragile. Consider – U.S. billionaires (with Canadian billionaire hangers-on) see Latin Americans as their very own cheap labour. That’s what all empires do. Like all…
March 30, 2019 Racist Rally in Edmonton Part II: Counter-Protester Assaulted and Soldier of Odin Member Taken Into Custody
Much like Vancouver and Toronto, it looked like the most recent Worldwide Coalition Against Islam (WCAI) event in Edmonton would yet again fail to feature anyone actually associated with the…