The governments throughout the world had better start listening to the children and teens and take action to put the brakes on the escalating and potentially catastrophic effects of the…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – George Monbiot makes the case for popular sovereignty mechanisms to supplement systems of representative government which fail to reflect the will of the…
The newest episode of “What You Need to Know” is recorded and now up. Every Friday Bluesky Strategy Group will be releasing a new episode where we’ll talk about the…
Climate crisis, what climate crisis? Voters went to the ballot box on Monday and opted for more of the same, returning Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to government – albeit in a…
Since I posted my useless blather just before the recent Canadian federal election, I feel like I should weigh in on the outcome. My thoughts are not trenchant or incisive,…
Elizabeth Thompson’s CBC report about Daisy Group vs. Bernier’s People’s Party is very fair and quite accurate. If you are busy, and don’t have time to read it all, it…
I think an important part of being humble is to actually just be humble, and not talk about it, and let people notice you are being humble. As opposed to…
Since Monday’s election, Andrew Scheer’s continued leadership of the Conservative Party has become an open question. Chantal Hebert writes: Since election night, Scheer has tried to cast the result as…
Couldn’t sleep, started late-night Googling. These Calgary teenaged miscreants somehow came up. Wonder where they are now?
Not sure which way the causality ran, but the family (or families, not sure if there were two) of 11 ducks which spent the summer in neighborhood parks have flown…
From CBC, earlier today: On his Kinsellacast podcast, an unapologetic Kinsella said the campaign to spotlight racists who attached themselves to the fledgling party was not supposed to extend into…
For the first time, it seemed that there really were more than enough opinions on this election. Not only did we have the political blogs and usual social media postings…
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton during the week ended Oct. 20, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
Micheal Rogers, (not surprisingly, not a relation) wise moderator of the FamilyTreeDNa project Rogers/Rodgers comments on this rare entire lack of DNA matches. … it’s apparent that your own ancestral…
Pale Waves – There’s A Honey
Andrew Scheer is looking a lot more humble than he was just two days ago, when he described his humiliating loss as a " first step" to victory.And said he…
The Tyee’s petro-scribe, Andrew Nikiforuk, digests the indigestible aftermath of our federal election. Hint: it bodes no good. Once again we have been reminded that Canada’s political parties behave like…
While the battle for climate-change mitigation will be won or lost by regulating the big polluters, it is all too easy for us to scrutinize them to the exclusion of…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/exxon-shell-climate-change-court-new-york-attorney-general-litigation-documents-1.5331228 Is climate change happening? Scientists all over the world say it is. In some countries it has already caused tremendous damage – to people and to architecture. Stopping it…
