The big event this weekend is of course the reactionary Yellow Vests convoy to Ottawa which Yellow Vests Canada Exposed and the Canadian Anti-Hate Network have been doing a fantastic…
One of our daughters spotted this on Facebook. She sent it along – and I at first didn’t believe it was real. Apparently it is. The link it goes to…
There’s a bunch of sketchy hombres down in Texas. Their pedigree traces back to a notoriously corrupt energy company called EnRon. After EnRon exploded and the principals were sent for…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik and Gabrien Zucman write about the developing movement toward an economic discipline which recognizes the importance of human well-being,…
Political staffers and the work they do is one of the great tropes out there in society, regardless of the country you live in. Some people say they are nothing…
--> Want to laugh at black humor? Read anything by David Sedaris. I’ve just finished his latest ramble-in-a-book-form titled ‘Calypso’. It’s very funny when it’s not causing me to blush…
People were upset to be woken up by the Amber Alert Thursday night. And now, on social media, people are REALLY upset that people were upset to be woken up…
We do these Highly-Scientific™ Polls for fun, generally. But you want to know something that is sad – that is maddening and pathetic and repellant, too? All of the quotes…
Snow days this week, ice day today (after a period of rain yesterday) but every day is campaign day this week and next. Here is Julia Sánchez, the NPD candidate…
Evolving is one of those words I have never particularly cared for. It can, and should, of course, most be used when pertaining to the growth and change over time…
National Emergencies are supposed to be solemn affairs. But Donald Trump’s announcement of a national emergency was a stream of consciousness hodge podge from a dangerously deluded mind. Dana Milbank…
I did not get into blogging, or commenting on politics to criticize the media. Some people say that criticizing the media means attacking the media, which undermines democracy itself. I…
Gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protestors are a particularly French phenomenon, as French law requires all automobiles be equipped one of those fluorescent vests in case of emergency. It made for…
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Feb. 10, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
It was amazing sight, thousands of children and teenagers protesting all over the U.K.After going on strike, and walking out of their classrooms, to demand action on climate change.The newest…
Cam Holmstrom has started a new blog: some of you vets may remember his blog “Peterborough Politics”. He is back to blogging at his new blog “Magpie Brule” . He…
The 1975 – Love It If We Made It
I knew that there was something truly evil lurking in the shadows of that fake scandal.Even if I couldn't see it, I could smell it.The Cons claimed they were just…
Fresh from signing a national emergency declaration, the Mango Mussolini stepped behind a microphone in the Rose Garden and told reporters there’s really no emergency. He just wanted to build…
