Today North Cowichan Mayor Siebring and Council will wrestle with his threaten and rescue scheme designed to convince the council to back off of their 5-2 decision rejecting the GAIN…
Fraking is really bad for all of us, it’s the process of using water to force dirty oil out of the ground. This practice destabilizes the ground causing earthquakes and…
I think we are all familiar with the garden-variety scams that are endemic on today’s Internet. Sometimes it is a Nigerian prince or princess offering to send us millions to…
Doug Ford has thrown in his lot with the prairie premiers — particularly Jason Kenney. And he rails about national unity. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Suddenly, our populist premier has…
If conservative leader Andrew Scheer is looking for compassion, he is looking in the wrong places. There is no succor for losers in Toronto’s Albany club. Long the King Street…
Covered cats.
Parliament may have declared we’re in a state of climate emergency but, lamentably, there’s precious little evidence that they mean it. Canada remains bitumen country, pipeline country, and bugger the…
As we start to go into our new reality of minority government in Canada, there are many things that many observers need to pay attention to in order to stay…
Mitzie Hunter is next up in answering some questions about her Ontario Liberal Party leadership run. You’ll find her relevant website and contact info below the very last answer of…
Bolivian vice president Álvaro García Linera (left) with President Evo Morales A year ago, the corporatists and anti-socialist militarists in the administration of US president Donald Trump appeared ecstatic over…
(Sorry this blog is so late. I know I did send it out on time. But for some reason it stung it’s tongue at me and stepped back.) https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/scientists-declare-climate-emergency-1.5347486 Not…
I started writing this blogpost last week, figuring I had a lot of time before Elizabeth May announced that she’d be stepping down from her position as leader of the…
Wednesday is a big day for Mayor Siebring starting off with an in-camera session where he will attempt to sway the council into calling another Public Hearing to accommodate the…
May your constitution prove stronger than mine. If God is ever in the mood for smiting someone, I’ve got the perfect candidate: How totally not shocking that Paula White, Trump's…
Toronto’s garbage trucks are being fuelled by the very thing they are picking up on their routes. The trucks pick up food waste (in a separate bin from recycling and…
I turned off Twitter and Instagram, and logged out of Facebook, last month. Click. Bye. Now, that was the first paragraph. In the second paragraph, you are perhaps expecting me…
Yesterday, Elizabeth May resigned the leadership of the Green Party. It was not a hasty decision. Susan Delacourt writes: It’s a moment that’s been in the works for three years,…
For the past 60 years, we have watched Canadian politics spiral into a quagmire of failed ideologies and failed leadership. We continue the pattern by choosing leaders by old methods…
Important North Cowichan Council Meeting November 6th-1:30PM Originally posted by the Sahtlam Neighbourhood Association As many of you now know, Mayor Seibring has used his executive powers to…
7 Books for a Facebook tag game
# Tagged for a stupid facebook meme — Oct 25, 2019 Will not tag anyone to end the Karma chain. No particular order, except the order in which I thought…