Climate Wars
In his 2008 book, Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats, author Gwynne Dyer wrote of a brutally militarized border between the United States and Mexico. This…
2019
The Madness of King Donald
It’s hard to believe that Trump eschews alcohol because he governs like a drunken sailor. In November, scientists from 13 US federal departments, acting on the directions of Congress, produced…
Newstalk 1010 roundtable, on snow removal and the ghosted bike lanes
Featuring host John Moore, Newstalk star Jerry Agar, and my friend John Tory Jr. My morning rant, as captured on Twitter, and mooted on the 1010 Roundtable: why are the…
Living a Zero-Waste Life is Getting Easier
Zero waste living seems like an impossibility given the amount of packaging everything is put in. Ordering a small item can lead to 10x the packaging of the item itself.…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday January 30, 2019. Today we are talking about FamilyLaw. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law…
The Monstrous Cons and the Hate That Kills
It's now been two years since Alexandre Bissonnette walked into a mosque in Quebec City and opened fire.He killed six people, and wounded five others, as 35 other worshippers including…
Conservative Memory Lane Is A Nightmare On Elm Street
The best part of being a conservative it seems is not remembering the recent past. Why is that conservative rhetoric never seems to pass the historical smell test, and the…
Politics in anxious times.
If prime minister Justin Trudeau had his druthers, he would not want an election this year. It is simply bad timing. Canadians are anxious. It is not any one thing.…
Supreme Court ruling tomorrow could leave Albertans on the hook for corporate toxic mess cleanup
The Supreme Court of Canada will announce its ruling tomorrow morning in a case that could leave taxpayers on the hook for a toxic mess left by a bankrupt oil…
Yellow Jackets Canada Facebook Group Founder/Administrator Marc "Tyler" Malenfant: A Lying Liar Who Lies
I don't know why I continue to be both surprised and amused by Marc "Tyler" Malenfant's repeted claims that the racist and antisemitic posts he made to two news article…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Upturned cats.
The Cost of Inequality: Davis 2019
This is a great video of some excellent speakers to listen to while you make dinner or, maybe, do your taxes. In a nutshell, governments need to stop taking out…
Trust in AG is broken
If the Horgan Government and the LAMC allows Auditor General Bellringer to direct a re-examination of the Legislative Assembly’s financial records, that is a clear sign, they’ve made a choice…
Jan.29: plus que ca change, plus que c’est la meme chose.
________________________________________________________________ This lead item is not from the news. It is two book reviews from the New York Times. But it gives a clearer picture than you will see in…
The Long Goodbye
Having had the chance to work in politics, you get to know some politicians very well. You also get to see that anyone can serve as a politician, as there…
Andrew Scheer Goes Full Rebel Media
Lets follow a string. Andrew Scheer hired Hamish Marshall to be his campaign manager. First for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, in fact Andrew Scheer ran his…
Revisiting Posterity
In a post yesterday I drew upon the words of the patron saint of conservatism, Edmund Burke, and the powerful progressive voice of Theodore Roosevelt in 1910. Without expressly using…
in which we find ourselves the owners of an suv
Add this to the list of things I said I’d never do, along with colour my hair and move to the west coast while my mother is alive. My hair,…