Ignorance Incarnate
Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office has crunched the numbers. And Victoria Gibson reports that: Ontario is set to lose more than 10,000 teaching positions over the next five years, due to…
2019
Washington Gives Guaido $52M in Funding, Slaps Venezuela with New Sanctions
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido (right), who some nations have recognized as the country’s rightful interim ruler, was given $52 million by the Trump administration. Caracas, September 25, 2019 –…
Global Climate Strike – TODAY
The Global Climate Strike is today! People who care about the world are out on the streets today to send a message to politicians and those who don’t care that…
Trump and Trudeau: brothers of another mother
Trump and Trudeau: They’re not that different, really. Sons of millionaires. Never had to worry about a hydro bill, never needed to fret about a mortgage payment. Never experienced the…
Wilson-Raybould: A woman of a certain age.
Maybe after the election. Jody Wilson-Raybould can take her own one-person show on the road. At the present, she is attempting the more difficult task of getting elected as an…
Trust in science falls—due to global warming?
Greta Thunberg made a statement to the U.S. Congress the other day that, like most of what she says, was simple, profound and obvious at the same time. Simple (only…
Kiosk – Mouse – Maple: twelve years later
In 2007 my loving partner offered to look after our toddler while I got back in the canoe for a few days. This is the story of me doing the…
October 1st-Racetrack Rezoning: What You Need to Know
Racetrack Rezoning: What You Need to Know The Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit (VIMC) has submitted an application to rezone 100 acres of forested land to allow for expansion of their…
The Monsters’ Ball
While Greta Thunberg and others rallied at the UN this week to demand that nations finally get serious about climate change, another group calling itself the Southern State Energy Board…
Very, Very, Very, Very, Very Generous
Calls for a clean energy transition, resounding in political conversations and street demonstrations around the globe right now, are a clear response to the growing climate emergency. But they can…
Trump’s Own Ratted Him Out
Business Insider reports that the whistleblower who turned Trump in over the Ukraine shakedown is a CIA officer who once worked in Trump’s White House. But wait, there’s more. The…
Andrew Scheer And The Death of Another Fake Scandal
As you know, I had high hopes that this story would finally expose Andrew Scheer as a nasty and dangerous religious bigot. So I was very disappointed when no other…
Sept. 26: Are Americans even dumber than Canadians?
This afternoon, I watched a speech as delivered by Donald Trump. It was blatant lying. Blatant, vicious and murderous. Everyone should have known that – but I’d be willing to…
We’re stepping up – join us for a day to halt this climate crisis
Photo by Julian Meehan (Flickr) On 20 September , at the request of the young people who have been staging school strikes around the world, we’re walking out of our…
Talking #Elxn43 on “The Arlene Bynon Show
This morning I had the chance to join Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Mike Van Soelen. We talked about Andrew…
Montreal: March for Climate Action 09-27-2019
When I hear Greta Thunberg damning the world at the UN... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2019/sep/23/greta-thunberg-to-world-leaders-how-dare-you-you-have-stolen-my-dreams-and-my-childhood-video ...I am reminded of exactly where I was ...
Montreal: March for Climate Action 09-27-2019
When I hear Greta Thunberg damning the world at the UN... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2019/sep/23/greta-thunberg-to-world-leaders-how-dare-you-you-have-stolen-my-dreams-and-my-childhood-video ...I am reminded of exactly where I was ...
Montreal: March for Climate Action 09-27-2019
When I hear Greta Thunberg damning the world at the UN… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2019/sep/23/greta-thunberg-to-world-leaders-how-dare-you-you-have-stolen-my-dreams-and-my-childhood-video …I am reminded of exactly where I was when I wrote No Healing: https://soundcloud.com/randboro/no-healing-rough-draft Lyrics: Messing aroundDigging up…
1919: Recovering a Legacy
Illustration from 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike by the Graphic History Collective and David Lester (Between the Lines 2019). When the world watched Winnipeg Alexander Bittelman,…