Why The Con Media’s Fake Scandal Is Going Nowhere
It's a pandemic nightmare right out of Kafka, where the roar of a media mob turns reality on its head.And a decent prime minister who has worked tirelessly for months…
July 2020
If It’s a Scandal You’re Looking For
If you think this “WE” business rises to the level of a scandal, you’re wrong. Trudeau has apologized and let’s move on. There is another scandal involving the Trudeau government,…
Fauci to Trump – Grow Up!
After days of sniping from Trump’s White House sock puppets trying to undermine him, Dr. Anthony Fauci apparently has had enough. “I cannot figure out in my wildest dreams why…
The timing was perfect. The process was not.
The timing was perfect. The process was not. Municipality received 1,364 response forms by deadline on July 14 COWICHANVALLEYCITIZEN.COM Not enough opposition to halt new Cowichan RCMP detachment borrowing –…
Why are two prominent NDP MPs refusing to oppose Israel’s imminent annexation of the West Bank?
Demonstrators holding a Palestinian flag participate in a May Day march, 2017. Photo from Montecruz Foto. On July 7, the activist group Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle…
For the Record: My remarks on the vote to amend the Parks Control By-law on temporary shelter in parks
The remarks I made during the debate at last nights special meeting of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation can be found HERE
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Justin Ling discusses the dangers of the U.S.’ fever swamp conspiracy theories as they get shared – and warped – for Canadian marks.…
Somethings Gotta Give
Back on Monday Ontario announced it’s plans to move most of the province into Phase Three of re-opening, something that many people welcome despite the unknown that we face ahead…
David Harvey’s new thesis is that ‘capitalism is too big to fail’. Is it?
Up until now, famed geographer David Harvey has been considered a leading Marxist, even if some on the left have criticized several of his theories as “reformist.” In my opinion,…
Some Good News – At Least It Sounds Good
Overpopulation is going to ebb faster than some had imagined. A new report by the University of Washington published in the Lancet predicts mankind will peak at some 9.7 billion…
A Sad Decline
I recently completed The Splendid and The Vile, a book by Erik Larson exploring the first year of Winston Churchill’s prime ministership. He assumed the leadership in 1940, at which…
Israel lobby waging campaign to silence progressive, pro-Palestinian restaurant
Toronto eatery Foodbenders has courted significant controversy from pro-Israel advocates and lobby groups for denouncing Zionism and standing up for Palestinian rights and racial justice. Photo courtesy of Foodbenders. The…
A Little Due Diligence
Jacques Leger writes that, at the moment, we are in a nasty place: It did not take long for the controversy to blow up. The opposition parties and the media…
Pick your battles better Mr. Singh.
As leader of a political party, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh needs to learn to pick his battles with more care. When he says that the person who broke through the…
Will a second wave cause another panic?
Before I get rolling with this post I want to provide some persepctive. Putting a situation in its proper context is not covering up the truth, it is the truth.…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Laundered cats.
Alberta Wars Episode IV: A New Fair Deal
A long time ago in an economy far far away… ALBERTA WARS Episode IV A New Fair Deal Following the revenge of the separatists all of the pillars for Emperor…
North Cowichan Public Consultation: The Stacked Deck
Sadly, a citizens’ Working Group (WG) established to help guide public consultation on the future of the Municipal Forest Reserve appears to be a rubber stamp. And the deep, broad,…
North Cowichan Public Consultation: The Stacked Deck
Icel Dobell Sadly, a citizens’ Working Group (WG) established to help guide public consultation on the future of the Municipal Forest Reserve appears to be a rubber stamp. And the…