Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2019-02-04 17:25:00
Unless Doug Ford campaigns for him in a thong, things couldn’t get worse for Andrew Scheer in the 2019 federal election Polling poorly in Quebec, British Columbia and Atlantic Canada,…
2019
Mulcair Wades Into the Fray
A couple of days ago I argued that the Liberals and the Conservatives and, for that matter, the NDP did not deserve your vote in this year’s federal election. In…
The Heritage Minute and the Canada Hating Cons
As you may have noticed, ever since Mad Max Bernier laid siege to their castle, Andrew Scheer and his Cons have been spewing out attack ads at a rate never…
Harris Mocks Scheer
Michael Harris deserves some sort of prize for this line: Unless Doug Ford campaigns for him in a thong, things couldn’t get worse for Andrew Scheer in the 2019 federal…
Hedges – Trump Has Trashed the Greenback
In his weekly column, Chris Hedges writes that Donald Trump has inflicted a mortal wound on the very foundation of America’s economy, the world’s acceptance of the US dollar as…
"A Different League" – How Netanyahu Became Israel’s Trump
Israelis approaching Jerusalem are being greeted with an 8-storey poster of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu beneath a caption, “a different league.” To Haaretz correspondent, Bradley Burston, these towering campaign…
Here Is The Super Bowl Ad GM Didn’t Want You To See
Despite their best efforts to block it, it still ran: Recommend this Post
making the move from plastic to glass food storage
Pyrex! I bought these! I love them! For the longest time, I’ve had a very large collection of plastic food storage containers. Allan and I have always brought most of…
Northern Reflections: Scheer Incompetence
Northern Reflections: Scheer Incompetence: Michael Harris doesn’t see much of a future for Andrew Scheer: After a year and a half in office, people can be forgiven if they …
How About Two Billion, Does That Cut Any Ice?
One aspect of climate change that is often missing from our conversation is how much of it is already locked in. Until we find some mechanism to extract atmospheric greenhouse…
thank you, nanaimo! the ndp government survives
Thank you, Nanaimo! With all the personal blathering I’ve been doing, I forgot to write about something very important! There was a by-election here in BC: a seat in Nanaimo…
Scheer Incompetence
Michael Harris doesn’t see much of a future for Andrew Scheer: After a year and a half in office, people can be forgiven if they think Scheer is still Speaker…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of February 4, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of February 4, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: 170 top in-house lawyers warn they will direct their dollars to law…
Who Is Andrew Scheer? Lesson #1
I was having a conversation with a good friend that I worked with in politics (names are hidden to protect the innocent) years ago, he is still fairly plugged in…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – David Leonhardt points out how the upward redistribution of income has radically reshaped the U.S. for the worse. – Josh Bivens writes about…
Lies, hyperbole and alt truths.
What has happened to politics? And what has happened to the decency that it used to have? We all know that U.S. president Donald Trump creates his own truths but…
Melancholy Monday Music – 02/04/2019
Yes. Melancholy Monday. Foggy, and wet – it feels like a Milk Carton Kids morning. The Milk Carton Kids are an American indie folk duo from Eagle Rock, California, United…
Active People Naturally Crave Healthier Foods
Want to eat healthier but lacking motivation? Start being more active and you’ll find that picking healthier foods will get easier. A least that’s what participants found in a recent…
The Turmoil and Topsy Turvy #nlpoli
With so much changing in any office, what has “always” been done really only goes back to the time of the last person who came in the door. In Newfoundland…
UCP Leader Jason Kenney, political lifer elected at 29, mocks 29-year-old NDP candidate with sophomoric and offensive joke
I hear, “a gay 19 year old.” Quite clearly. I speak, of course, of Jason Kenney’s notorious cheap shot in Cochrane last Thursday, in which he mischaracterized the NDP’s newly…