The Parliamentary Dance Begins
It’s been close to a month since Canadians elected a minority Parliament but really it was this week that we really started to see things go. All week we’ve seen…
2019
Wolf trap
It was completely inappropriate for @CNN and @wolfblitzer to question a woman about her husband, simply because they are married. Sexist and wrong. #uspolitics https://t.co/KyJzMt1nnf — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November…
Trudeau 2.0
Notwithstanding what some say, methinks @Justintrudeau is handling this post-election period right. No stunts, no selfies, no over-saturation. #cdnpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 15, 2019
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rylan Higgins argues that it’s long past time to move beyond a boom-and-bust oilpatch economy. And Ryan Meili writes that workers and residents…
Donald Booth Named Canadian Secretary to the Queen
The Canadian Secretary to the Queen is the primary means of communication between the cabinet and the monarch. They have important roles in advising the monarch and helping to organize…
The March Continues
The United States and Britain have been involved in wars for twenty years. Simon Jenkins asks a simple question: Why? After all, the results have not been not encouraging: The…
Alberta should say no to own police.
We are hearing a lot of bad ideas from Alberta of late. When premier Kenney gets into a hissy-fit, he rails and rants a lot and he comes up with…
Uh oh! Those perfidious Swedes have clearly joined the anti-Alberta energy ‘misinformation campaign of defamation’!
Why, those perfidious Swedes! First they sent their sneaky little agent Greta Thunberg in a sailboat to Alberta’s shores to stir up our young people — and that’s no mean…
That’s Where the Donald Got the Hair
Voila! Donald Trump’s hair stylist. aka Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Dayen highlights a rare moment of honesty from the payday loan sharks in their recognition that fair wages would reduce the…
New column day
Here, on how Scott Moe has been left alone and isolated by the supposed “resistance”. (Though I’ll admit I underestimated his willingness to declare his unthinking support for anything suggested…
On rejected applications
Let’s see what Scott Moe is demanding from the federal government now… On the immigration file, one goal is to “assert provincial control over the (SINP).” Interesting. Now, there’s certainly…
The NDP is complicit in imperialist violence in Bolivia
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh speaks at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa on Sunday, October 15, 2017. Photo by Obert Madondo (Flickr). It’s now been four days since the right-wing coup…
Loaded logging trucks from Mount Tzouhalem rumble through residential area of Maple Bay
Larry Pynn Originally posted on https://sixmountains.ca I saw something very strange this week — a fully loaded logging truck lumbering through the residential streets of The Properties at Maple Bay.…
Present view. Not bad.
At CTFN, my daughter’s First Nation.
Some Clouds Do Have a – BOOM – Silver Lining
Military ordinance, such as bombs, rockets or mines, doesn’t like climate change. In the really hot regions, it can be an explosive situation. They’re called UEMS, unplanned explosions at munitions…
Priorities – A Failing Economy or Future Survival. One Must Yield.
There’s an anecdote often attributed to Winston Churchill that goes like this: “Churchill: “Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?” Socialite: “My goodness, Mr. Churchill… Well, I…
Iron March Leak: Forum Moderator MOONLORD Was Former Calgary Blood & Honour Member, Active Canadian Forces, Supported Atomwaffen, and Apparently Selling Weapons to French Far-Right
NOTE: If the screen shots in this article are too small to read, please right click and open in a new tab. You can then size the image appropriately. I…
The Cult
Critics of the Republican Party are increasingly depicting the GOP as a “cult.” It’s no longer the party of Lincoln. It’s the cult of Donald J. Trump. In today’s Guardian,…
When They Go Low, We Go High
Icel Dobell A year ago, 1,500 citizens of the Cowichan Valley came together to form Where Do We Stand, a public platform to advocate for the highest and best uses…