Is the United Conservative Party’s honeymoon over? God knows, it ought to be. Sadly, though, it’s probably not. Yet. Just the same, it was mildly encouraging to hear a few…
Wow — you MUST take a moment to watch this powerful video. I mean it — please watch it and share!! pic.twitter.com/LUI4bMgsp9 — Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) November 24, 2019
Our research into Canadian members of Iron March based on the leaked forum information is ongoing. Suffice it to say we’ve been finding some especially interesting individuals who will be…
Ms Soapbox spent most of Saturday in ER so her blog on Bill 22 won’t appear until Monday. On the upside, the doctors, nurses and healthcare staff at Foothills were…
Well at least now we know why Andrew Scheer has been keeping such a low profile, and looking so weird or so paranoid..It seems he's been trying to recover from…
Too many of our Cowichan Valley citizens face homelessness and all the associated problems that result. Our local governments have funded Social Planning Cowichan and the Cowichan Housing Association with…
We keep trying to make cyclists, pedestrians and cars share the same space? Why, when it’s a losing battle?
Justin Trudeau, Bill Morneau and every other perpetual-exponential-growther, or PEG’er, are joined at the hip to GDP, gross domestic product. They are GDP’s high priests. It is, to them, the…
Chip Franklin thinks he knows: Hamilton’s greatest fear was a foreign power controlling our president. A prescient warning for Trumpers; he cares not a fuck for you. pic.twitter.com/WSHakyPxkk — Chip…
I had a great talk with Leigh Robertson the other day. Our conversation wandered from talking about child labour as a focus for teaching children about the history of the…
Joe Stiglitz writes that we are facing three crises: The world is facing three existential crises: a climate crisis, an inequality crisis and a crisis in democracy. Will we be…
Every once in a while, it seems necessary to mention Donald John Trump. He is a man who has taken on the presidency in the United States of America. It…
Here in Alberta, what news coverage there has been about the strike for safer working conditions by Canadian National Railway train crews and rail yard workers has focused on the…
I really do enjoy twitter for all the wit that people share. And with Trump in the White House, there’s lots to be witty about: If there is a Trump…
My sister is training one of our dogs for rally obedience and things are going pretty well, I think. Our Molly is a bit of a handful, but my sister…
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/471542-poll-finds-sharp-swing-in-opposition-to-impeachment-among-independents Yes. In fact, it begins to look as though Trump could win re-election. It’s hard to know what to think of this. Not that it really matters. The leader…
Hundreds of feet in the air, four climbers from the Rainforest Action Network and the Ruckus Society hang a giant banner off of a construction crane on the eve of…
Student protesters gather in York University’s Vari Hall to denounce an event that brought members of the Israel Defence Forces to campus, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. Photo from Twitter. On…
Participants at an exhibition of antiglobalization protest artwork and films curated by Vienna-based artist Oliver Ressler called A World Where Many Worlds Fit, 2008. Photo by Petra Gerschner. By the…
United States Defense Secretary James N. Mattis meets with Saudi Arabia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Pentagon in Washington D.C.,…
