On the Covington Catholic School Incident
The best part of this issue, if there can be a good part, where a bunch of high school boys surrounded Nathan Phillips to get a little kick from exercising…
2019
Stuff Happens, The Reckoning, Week 3: Canadians pawns in game of Chinese checkers (yes, I know that doesn’t make sense)
I believe there is an ancient Chinese proverb that goes: don’t mess with China. China, a country we are trying desperately hard to establish firm trading ties with, is still…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Penney Kome writes about the importance of treating poverty as a social disease rather than a purely individual circumstance. And Jackie Esmonde…
I attribute this to getting bitten by a rabies-infected coati in Mexico
My week on Twitter : 2.05K Mentions, 160K Mention Reach, 6.65K Likes, 1.37K Retweets, 1.28K Replies. See yours with https://t.co/TQhKFs0QZY pic.twitter.com/9R6Sn7SqXo — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 20, 2019
Will Canadian Taxpayers Federation credibility suffer from fine for failing to register as third-party election advertiser?
The $6,000 administrative penalty levied against the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for failing to register as a third-party advertiser under Alberta’s election financing law is a long-overdue official recognition of the…
Saturday Photo: The Difference between Weather and Climate…
At the moment it’s minus 23 Celsius, and it’s supposed to start snowing soon. Big winter storm coming, danger of frost bite according to Environment Canada. Typical January weather in…
10 Year Challenge
I posted this challenge on social media recently. This is what we do to be sociable: play online games and forward memes. Discussing the world and screaming into the void…
Keeping Tabs on Climate Change – a Three Dimensional Chore
It’s happening all around you – in front of you, behind you, on both sides, above your head, beneath your feet. It’s happening on land, in our seas and in…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Linda McQuaig writes that Canada’s federal government should look at buying the soon-to-be-vacated GM plant in Oshawa to begin production of electric vehicles.…
The Ten Bulls
A series of ten Buddhist drawings make up what are known collectively as the Ten Oxherding Pictures or sometimes just as the Ten Bulls. Each one graphically illustrates a stage…
We Still Have Agency Around Climate Change
There’s one seed left. The Agenda talked with Michael Mann and a few others in the field about “Burnout and Despair: Studying the Climate” Mann focused on the many ways…
The Spring Election – when and why #nlpoli
There’s likely going to be an election before Victoria Day. If – by some miracle – the Liberals manage to win the Topsail-Paradise by-election next week you could be at…
Trump can: You can’t.
Social media are a trap just waiting for the unwary politician. While I have tested some of the major social media apps, I try to stay away from them like…
Derek Fildebrandt and that rule of law thing: it’s for pipeline protesters, not law-abiding gun owners …
It shouldn’t surprise us, I suppose, that Derek Fildebrandt has publicly gone all Charlton Heston on us. I speak, of course, of the recently rebranded Freedom Conservative Party leader’s Hestonesque…
Robert Jones Embraces Fascism
During the years I’ve been working on the blog there have been a few characters that have stuck out not only for their racist, antisemitic, homophobic, and/or Islamophobic views, but…
jackie robinson: "i owe more to canadians than they’ll ever know."
Let me set the scene. The year is 1946. The United States is deeply segregated. The birth of the civil rights movement that would begin as African-American soldiers returned home…
Musical interlude
Metric – The Shade
The Cons and the Monstrous Keeper of the Flame
In my last post I looked at how Andrew Scheer had been caught accusing the United Nations and Justin Trudeau of trying to erase Canada's borders.With what turned out to…