Asleep at the Wheel
With another UN climate summit next week there are plenty of papers flooding in. Canada needs a carbon tax of no less than $210 per ton of GHG emissions, sort…
2019
Review: Black Feminist Thought
A Black feminist classic, and deservedly so. An effort by one of the most prominent Black feminist sociologists in ...
Review: Black Feminist Thought
A Black feminist classic, and deservedly so. An effort by one of the most prominent Black feminist sociologists in the US to create a sort of overview and synthesis of…
Good On Justin Trudeau
Credit where credit’s due. Full marks to the Trudeau government for not legislating CN rail workers back to work. After eight days it seems the company and its workers have…
Missing The Alarm Bells
Yesterday, the United Nations issued yet another dire warning. Tom Walkom writes: The report makes for grim reading. Scientists reckon that if Earth is to avoid global catastrophe, the temperature…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jason Hickel observes that what progress has been made in human health and quality of life is the result of progressive policies, not…
Gunfighter versus Gunfighter.
It’s a classic Hollywood film script. The ‘good’ gunfighter has to buckle on his six-gun just one more time to take on the ‘bad’ gunfighter. Whether the ‘bad’ guy is…
A mouthful of burp #nlpoli
Not one mitigation scheme. Not two mitigation schemes. Three mitigation schemes. Delivered by the end of January. All wonderful grand and all believable if you have had the sense knocked…
Great tweets of the day – animal twitter edition
Some great animal tweets: Snowplow for hire pic.twitter.com/bdYu09XNhO — Aussies Doing Things (@aussiesdointhgs) November 26, 2019 I like this video pic.twitter.com/dCTk2tZ68F — Attractive Nature ? (@NatureAttracts) November 26, 2019 Tom…
No way Conservatives will admit they look foolish for calls to legislate CN strikers back to work
Now that a tentative agreement in the national strike by 3,200 CN yard workers and train crew members has been reached in collective bargaining as God and the Canada Industrial…
Kevin J. Johnston: Was the Poodle in the Pound?
It has been quite some time since we’ve heard from Kevin “Poodle” Johnston which is odd since rarely have we seen someone who liked to hear the sound of his…
Nov. 26: A world out of control
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/greenhouse-gases-1.5371968 And we have thrown away thirty years of the little time we have until it’s too late.Of course, real smart people like Ontario premier Doug Ford say all the…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats with company.
It Is A Disgrace That Much of the MSM World Has Yet To Stand Up and Speak Out!
JOHN PILGER: The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now
Hockey Should Not Be A Racist Sport
Apparently the idea of racism in hockey is now a hot topic in Canada. All I can say is what took everyone so long? Hockey is a white man’s sport.…
Horgan’s BC NDP Plays Santa With The Foreign LNG Crowd With Gifts That Keep On Giving
Our LNG struck Premier John Horgan has an eye on the Canadian prize for top polluter and could soon bypass Alberta. LNG Canada is anything but Canadian. Their operations are…
What Democracy Looks Like: Reflections on Trauma, Protest, and Quebec City, 2001
Protesters engulfed by tear gas on René-Lévesque E. Blvd, near Turnbull Street during Summit of the Americas protests and demonstrations in Quebec City, April 21, 2001. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.…
The former managing editor of CBC News weighs in
How is that “exclusive.”I mean, @kinsellawarren would yell that from rooftops or write songs to make it clear that’s what he thought. Confused why CBC would set him up as…
Earthgauge News – Nov. 26, 2019
https://earthgauge.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/egnews-19-11-25-mixdown.mp3 Environmental news 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 at…