Whose Side Are You On?
What side am I on? I’m with the people. By that, I mean all of humanity, and not just one select group, or my own narrow interests. I’m with humanity…
July 2020
Connecting The Dots
Piece it together. 1. Danger exaggerated – 0.1% fatality does not warrant authoritarian measures. 2. Tests are unscientific and unreliable. 3. Numbers are proven inflated. (Though even official numbers of…
North Cowichan Council’s ‘Public Consultation: The Stacked Deck’
Public Consultation: The Stacked Deck Originally Published in the Citizen July 9th, 2020 By Icel Jane Dobell Sadly, a citizens’ Working Group (WG) established to help guide public consultation on…
Female Genital Mutilation in Canada and the Limits to Criminalization
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a harmful, and at times life-threatening, practice that violates the human rights of girls and women. Photo by Meeri Koutaniemi. COVID-19 has disrupted the global…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Macdonald notes that the federal government’s investments in the wake of COVID-19 have been necessary to keep intolerable burdens off of people…
He Speaks For The Majority, I Suspect
That would be The Star’s Patrick Corrigan: Meanwhile The Star’s editorial board offers some insights into why Canada has fared so, so much better in dealing with Covid-19 than the…
Saturday Photo: Whimsy and Covid 19
Everybody was getting a little squirrely this spring, as we tried to out dance Covid 19 by staying at home. It helped some that March, April and the first of…
Six Mountains-The Unseen Forest
Larry Pynn’s ‘Drone Powered Video’ reveals the real story of North Cowchan’s logging practices. Originally published on https://www.sixmountains.ca Clearcutting by North Cowichan municipality revealed You won’t see the images…
Cancel Culture and the Need to not Define Acceptable Speech to Narrowly
There has been a lot of discussion on Cancel Culture recently as a result of an open letter by a group of writers and academics. This post is based on…
Hallelujah!
Donald Trump has commuted Roger Stone’s prison sentence. It is, says Stone, a sign of God’s mercy. Because, you see, Roger has come to Jesus. Howard Fineman writes in The…
The naiveté of Justin Trudeau.
It is easy to criticize the prime minister. If the prime minister’s office just had a few experienced people to advise Mr. Trudeau, he might not get into some of…
A voice from the past, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, tops independent bookshops’ fiction bestseller list for week ended July 5
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, July 5, 2020. The lists are compiled…
Siding with a former PC Premier: On an Alberta Pension Plan
When it comes to my politics, I am a pragmatist before anything else. While, I disagree with Michael Chong a lot, it is easy for me to say that his…
Musical interlude
Slowdive – Alison
Covid 19:You Can Run But You Can’t Hide
I took some time off to soak up some of the finest summer days I can remember, and get back on the water.As well as celebrate these hard fought victories.…
MOVE ON: Cars aren’t part of Stanley Park’s purpose
MOVE ON: Cars aren’t part of Stanley Park’s purpose: Growing up on the North shore, we ventured across town occasionally. Travelling in the back seat through Stanley Park toward Lions…
Just What is Cancel Culture Anyway?
I’m having trouble understanding the uproar over “cancel culture,” whatever that is. I do understand the scourge of intolerance. It’s bad. I’ve read Huxley and Orwell so I have a…
#Lavscam vs. #WEgate
#LavScam wasn’t fatal because it turned on a complex legal principle, and because no one in power was unlawfully (or personally) enriched. #WEscam is different: powerful people were secretly (and…
Rain
Still my fave Fabs song. The morning after he was killed, the guys across the hall in res had this playing on the radio, and that’s when I lost it.…
‘Cancel Culture’ and the Pro-Israel Lobby
Protestors wave Israeli flags during a demonstration in London, United Kingdom, November 4, 2017. Photo by Bruce Emmerling/NeedPix. When Sportsnet fired Canadian media personality Don Cherry in November 2019 for…