We Don’t Deserve This Planet: Australia Edition
Leaders of Australia commit to double down on poor economic policy amidst raging fires on that continent, proving yet again that the human race doesn’t deserve Earth.
January 2020
All Eyes on Wet’suwet’en: International Call for Week of Solidarity
Marching down Main Street in Smithers. B.C. chiefs gather in Smithers to support Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs’ position on Unist’ot’en camp and opposition to Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline. Photo by…
George’s Pancake – Our Salvation?
Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, thinks a team of scientists from Finland have come up with a solution to feeding mankind without destroying the environment. It’s ‘hello microbes, goodbye farming.’ Christians…
Water Wars – Coming Soon, Maybe This Year
A new early-warning system to identify regions susceptible to war focuses on H2O, water. The Dutch government-funded Water, Peace and Security (WPS) global early warning tool, which was presented to…
No, Warren. An Accident Is No "Act of War." The US Navy Says So.
When I heard about the 737 crash in Tehran overnight, my first reaction was “bring on the conspiracy theorists.” It’s not that I’m fond of coincidences – Trump assassinates Iran’s…
Eating off the Hill: Pudgyboy’s closes, never really got better
Just over a year ago I reviewed Pudgyboy’s, a new diner in Centretown at Bank and Mcleran that offered small portions at big prices. I found it overpriced and mediocre,…
The Game Changer
As this first full week of 2020 has unfolded, we’ve seen a lot going on all around the World. But at home, we’ve seen more and more names come out…
The End of Canadian Imagination
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes one last look at the empty House of Commons before the building shuts down for a decade. Photo: Justin Trudeau/Facebook. Resistance in the Canadian west,…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Kate Aronoff offers a reminder that the right’s constant bleating about limiting government spending never applies to the cost of wars of choice.…
Our Business
If you think that what is brewing between Iran and the United States is none our business, Hugh Segal urges you to think again: But the tensions between Iran and…
The Complex Mental Model of the Suburbs
It’s well established that the suburbs are bad for people’s health, the environment, mobility, and are associated with many other societal ills. However, amongst people who don’t live in the…
Were 63 Canadians murdered by Iranian armed forces?
That is what the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof is asking this terrible morning: Unconfirmed via Al Hadath: The downed Ukrainian aircraft outbound from #Tehran was accidentally shot down by…
They can help you write right.
You cannot be sure here, just who is the problem? It is all about a program called My Analytics from Microsoft and another program called Grammarly. Both programs are intrusive…
Savage attack: There’s nothing like the United Nations putting its oar in to make the locals go loco in Alberta!
If we ever do form the Western Wepublic of Wexit out here in Wild Rose Country, I guess we won’t be able to join the United Nations. Too triggering. There’s…
Even the National Review Thinks Trump is Nuts.
There are few more reliable Republican magazines than the National Review. Which is why it was refreshing to read NR columnist, Michael Doherty’s take on the Mango Mussolini’s antics in…
It’s Very Sad That Two Countries Hold the Future of The World In Their Hands
To the US and Iran from the rest of the world: Thank you for starting World War III, you jackasses!
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Occupied cats.
Jan. 7: for today, a very unfinished blog….
I am adding this note as I have almost finished today’s blog. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/jan/07/trump-news-today-live-impeachment-articles-iran-latest-updates-democrats _______________________________________________________________There’s a great deal of confusion about what is happening in Iran. Crowds in Baghdad are so…
Has Trump Got His War? Tehran Retaliates.
Iran claims to have launched a missile strike on a US airbase in Iraq. Meanwhile, Reuters is reporting that six missiles hit the Ain Al-Asad air base. A Pentagon statement…
Statement on the Assassination of Qassim Suleimani and its Aftermath
Iranian mourners lift a picture of slain military commander Qassim Suleimani during a funeral procession in Tehran. Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP. The US military’s assassination of Qasem Soleimani, one of…