Don’t Say This Question Hasn’t Crossed Your Mind
Is America finished, ruined beyond redemption, a now hopeless case? It’s the sort of question that, once raised, prompts a flood of ready opinion, the sort of deluge that reveals…
February 2020
Eating off the Hill: The Hungry Man at Fatboys Southern Smokehouse
This is my third time visiting Fatboys Southern Smokehouse, and it was third time the charm as I finally got the southern bbq experience I was looking for by going…
Remember How We Admired the Dakota Pipeline Protests?
A lot of Canadians expressed support when American First Nations protesters tried to block the Keystone XL pipeline at Standing Rock in rural North Dakota. It’s Canadian First Nations who…
Pipeline Stasi Shamed into Changing Course. Won’t Arrest Journalists for Crime of Journalism.
Apparently RCMP sleuths have discovered there’s something called the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The pipeline Stasi are in a tactical retreat. The RCMP is standing down on threats to…
It’s Up, Up and Away for Trudeau’s Folly
It’s no wonder the private sector wants nothing to do with “Trudeau’s Folly,” a.k.a. the Trans-Mountain pipeline. When Kinder-Morgan dangled the hook there was only one sucker willing to bite…
Saturday Photo: A Walk in the Snow
Well, actually the photo was taken some time ago, after another winter storm, but today when I was out I forgot my camera, so it will have to suffice. Lots…
"at your library" column in the north island eagle: let your reading take you someplace new
Let Your Reading Take You Someplace New Many of you already appreciate the joys of reading. Reading transports us to other worlds and lets us vicariously experience other lives. Reading…
"at your library" column in the north island eagle: let your reading take you someplace new
Let Your Reading Take You Someplace New Many of you already appreciate the joys of reading. Reading transports us to other worlds and lets us vicariously experience other lives. Reading…
"at your library" column in the north island eagle: let your reading take you someplace new
Let Your Reading Take You Someplace New Many of you already appreciate the joys of reading. Reading transports us to other worlds and lets us vicariously experience other lives. Reading…
A New Horrifying High Our Leaders Will Ignore
News that Antarctica just reached new horrifyingly high temperatures, forerunner of the deluge to come, once more reinforces the perilous state our world is in. Despite that, it seems likely…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Robert Reich comments that Democrats who failed to recognize and respond to a rigged economic system share in the blame for the rise…
Big And Dumb
Doug Ford visited Washington this week. He was there to talk trade. But he also waded into U.S. politics and the upcoming election. The Canadian Press reports: Ontario Premier Doug…
The motivated American voter.
You do recall, do you not, that the voter turnout that elected Donald Trump president four years ago, was the lowest turnout in a presidential election in the past two…
The Break, by Katherena Vermette, is independent booksellers’ Alberta fiction bestseller for week ended Feb. 2
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020. The lists are compiled…
This is a big weekend for Ontario Liberals
Delegate selection. How will they choose? I didn’t see this until a reporter drew this to my attention. It will affect the way some choose. Ontario Liberals can’t afford @StevenDelDuca.…
Musical interlude
Metric – Dressed to Suppress
How The Cons Became The Trump Party
It's a political story that ends in a graveyard, and I've been telling it for a long time. The story of the Harper Party, and how the Cons became more…
Trump Says "Snitches Get Stitches"
You tell the truth about Donald Trump and it’ll cost you. There was plenty of that today as the Mango Mussolini, reveling in his staged impeachment acquittal, took his revenge…
#Cdnpolicast – China Relations, Online Privacy & Quebec Secularism
The newest episode of “Cdnpolicast” is now up. In this episode Alyson Fair, Geoff Turner, Neil Brodie and I talk about Canada’s Ambassador to China before the House of Commons…
Pope Francis Says – "Eat the Rich"
Pope Francis says tax policies that favour the rich – tax havens, shelters and such – are part of a “structure of sin.” Speaking at the seminar set up by…