Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Downed cats.
February 2020
Feb. 11:: Down and downer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tatfeb ________________________________________________________________Wow! I made youtube. This must be some twenty years ago in which I appeared twice in a movie- once sitting with my back to a window, and once…
Forestry: Special Council Meeting dealing with North Cowichan’s Five Year Operating Budget.
This Tuesday (February 11, 2019) Council is being asked to consider 2 options for the 2020 Forestry budget at a Special Council Meeting dealing with North Cowichan’s Five Year Operating…
Ezra Levant Goes After Omar Khadr. Again.
Ezra Levant is the most grotesque bully I have ever encountered. A porcine right-wing extremist who peddles bigotry for profit.And the money he makes attacking Justin Trudeau, is only matched…
Another Nail in American Democracy’s Coffin
It’s been hard to ignore how America’s Department of Justice has been corrupted by Trump appointee, William Barr. The justice department is independent of the executive branch or at least…
BC Ecosocialist Party and the BC Greens-Is There Common Ground?
An open letter to B.C. Green leadership candidate Sonia Furstenau from the B.C. Ecosocialist Party Originally published in the Georgia Straight by Staff on February 10th, 2020 at 9:10 PM…
Research in Learning Technology
https://adaptivelearninginelt.wordpress.com/2020/02/10/more-research-needed/I am broadly sympathetic with the arguments offered by Philip J. Kerr in this recent post, but I have disagreements around the edges, enough that I think more discussion is…
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
Canadian Dimension always strives to expose the underlying realities and power structures of society: digging beneath superficial appearances and passing fads, to highlight the lasting, exploitative relationships and practices that…
The Government Says Canada Can Get Another 20 Years Out of Those Clapped-Out Subs. Well, Maybe.
When Britain’s Royal Navy deployed their new, Upholder-class attack subs they retired them in short order. The boats were commissioned into service in 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993. So unimpressed…
Enough said
Regular readers will be aware that BCI has a long history of extravagant rewards to insiders. These measure 3x to 5x amounts paid to top people at the similar organization…
Telling It Like it Is
That’s precisely what Rutger Bregman did at Davos last year: H/t Alex Himelfarb Breman talks about the reaction he received from his taxation proposal: Recommend this Post
More Lessons for Progressives
Late last year I wrote a piece here on the lessons that Progressives could and should learn from the events of 2019 and the elections that took place. A big…
The Best That Money Can Buy
Mike Bloomberg may be able to buy the presidency. And, Robert Reich writes, that possibility should really bother Americans: Bloomberg has a chance of winning the presidency because his net…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Fiona Harvey writes about the perfect storm of environmental crises leaving us at risk of societal collapse. And Tim Flannery calls out…
A Map to find Organizations Fighting Climate Change
Climatescape is a new web-based database to help you find organizations around that world that are trying to save the planet from environmental destruction. It can be hard to find…
A debutante ball for John Baird?
It is difficult to explain what kind of an event this will be. It has always been evident that John Baird wanted to make some kind of a statement in…
Interesting news, buried under bull #nlpoli
There are two aspects to Monday’s announcement about Muskrat Falls and electricity rates: political and practical items related to Muskrat Falls. Another set of decisions are actually related to the…
This just in! Stable Reliable Liberal Democracy of Alberta suddenly adopts social license strategy for fossil fuel development
We interrupt this blog with an important bulletin from the Stable Reliable Liberal Democracy of Alberta! In an unexpected move, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has announced he will seek social…
Erin O’Toole and the True Blue Farce
I never really noticed Erin O'Toole until he replaced Julian Fantino at Veteran Affairs, talked up a storm, only to find himself running for his life.And then of course there…
Warren Man in Hammersmith Palais
This was brought to my attention tonight by a Twitter friend. Who is this guy? How do I thank him? He has great taste in music, by the way. This…