The Authoritarian Impulse #nlpoli
Special Measures Enforcement Jim Dinn used to be a teacher. As head of the provincial teachers’ union, he spearheaded a drive against the public’s right to know how politicians spent…
May 2020
On crossed lines
Shorter Scott Moe: Would-be bombers shouldn’t be threatening locked-out workers. That’s my job.
May 19: Evil
Sorry for my absences. I’ve had computer problems which – I hope – are solved.In the break time, I thought I should write just this one blog edition, one with…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Fluffy cat.
Lacombe, Lucien
Caught this Louis Malle on it’s last night on MUBI.
Is Donald Trump Trying To Poison His Own People?
As we all know the depraved Donald Trump has been posing as a U.S. President for what seems forever, and failing miserably. Over and over again.But the raging pandemic, and…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ian Welsh highlights the false choice between lives and the economy which is being used an excuse to concentrate the power of…
Canada Does Not Deserve a Seat on the UN Security Council
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a meeting with the leaders of other Western nations at the 2018 G7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec. Photo from Twitter. This petition will be delivered…
Are we ready to be locked down for another 12+ months?
There’s a lot of fear and anxiety out there as provinces begin to lift the isolation measures put in place to slow the spread of the novel and mostly benign…
Green Party Leadership Candidates and the Monarchy: Amita Kuttner
Amita Kuttner Well, the trees are getting a bit of green on them, the fiddleheads are out, and the grass will soon be long enough to mow. It has been…
Scheer’s Consistent Inconsistency
2020 has been a crazy year so far, and maybe the continual piling of crap coming from it is wearing on me. Or maybe it’s because I’m getting older and…
George Fingers Boris – and Donald
George Monbiot blames Britain’s and America’s lousy pandemic results on two people – Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. Last year, the Global Health Security Index ranked this nation second in…
Tempting – But Still No.
British Columbia’s Centre for Disease Control posts daily updates (Mon. to Fri.) of the number of Covid-19 cases across the province. The island isn’t heavily populated. 870,000 and change, about…
A Complete Waste
Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw all American funding for the World Health Organization and to leave the WHO altogether. The New York Times reports: President Trump threatened to permanently…
The Pandemic From a Lawyer’s Perspective
A medical operations officer prepares test samples from the mobile laboratory parked at the Wyoming Public Health Laboratory in Cheyenne, Wyoming, May 4, 2020. Photo by Jacqueline Marshall/Flickr. “We are…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of May 19, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 19, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Air Canada temperature checks raise privacy concerns, experts say Top Roger Stone…
Crystal Vargas: QAnon Grifter and Opportunist
In February, we wrote about a poorly attended rally on Parliament Hill. At the time, the rally consisted of a few straggling Yellow Vests and conspiracy theorists. Signs and speeches…
An Accelerated Deterioration
With the exception of his mindless cheerleaders and coterie of sycophants, it is obvious to the world that Donald Trump has led the United States into a steep, perhaps irreversible,…
How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, and Why You Should Celebrate it
When it comes to reducing your carbon footprint it’s not what you do it’s what can you do. For some people it’s not a big expensive to install solar panels…
Gender, Hierarchy, Civilization & Collapse: A Few Thoughts
What did Sumeria ever do for us? Invented writing, our concepts of time, irrigation, cities, created the first literature…little stuff like that. Sumeria predates ancient Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and…