The Monkey Court and the Day the NDP Died
I knew the Finance Committee hearing into the so-called WEgate scandal was going to be a kangaroo court, or something even worse. For the very simple reason, there is no…
July 2020
Health care funding $466 million less than budgeted
In the 2019/20 budget health care was budgeted at $59.97 billion. That was subsequently increased by over $450 million to $60.42 billion, mostly through Supplementary Estimates late in the fiscal…
Seth Rogen Has Had His Fill
Growing up in Vancouver, Seth Rogen learned a lot about Israel. His parents, after all, met on a Kibbutz. Now he realizes much of what he was told about Israel,…
Where Did the Republican Party Go So Wrong? An Insider Casts the Bones and Reads the GOP Entrails.
There is an entire wing of the Republican Party today that blames the corruption of the GOP on Donald Trump as though the party wasn’t rotting out from the inside…
Canada’s Support for the Trump Administration’s Venezuela Policy
Venezuelans march against the US embargo in a large #NoMoreTrump protest in the streets of Caracas, August 2019. Photo by Ben Norton/The Grayzone. This is what empowering a bully looks…
Green Homes: The New Gold Standard (Beyond Net Zero & Passive House Design)
The newest Earthship green home design would seem to be the best performing home design overall, beating typical Net Zero or even Passive House designed homes. However, it would be…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Donald McNeil discusses how inconsistency in state-level policies and a lack of federal leadership have combined to result in the coronavirus epidemic manifesting…
So, What’s the Plan?
From what I’m reading it seems the kiddies will be heading back to school (or as I thought of it, ‘the gulag’) this fall. I’m not sure that’s a great…
WE’s Cribs Notes
Yesterday was quite a day and much of the Canadian political landscape is buzzing about the testimony the Kielburger Brothers gave to the House of Commons Finance Committee, just not…
Some Days, I Truly Despair
Mendacity, the constant litany of lies that defines Donald Trump, is one thing, but when the Incompetent-In-Chief extols people who believe that illness is demon-caused and science is experimenting with…
The Collective Power Of Science
Jacob Berkowitz writes that, when most of us graduate from school, we have a pretty fuzzy idea of what science is: Most of us leave high school, and any study…
Thread: how to prosecute the WE scandal, in ten easy steps
A thread about prosecuting the #WEscandal, in ten parts. Here goes. pic.twitter.com/gOU8ok7MM3 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 29, 2020
Stop Flushing Away Our Future
This is a short article on a subject of critical importance to ecology, food security, water security, and our future. There are many ways that we are busily flushing away…
On The Ruts In The Mind
The Road Less Travelled By “When I observe the ruts in a road, I am compelled to think: how much deeper the ruts in the mind?” – Henry David Thoreau…
The ‘WE’ boys go to the show.
After months of nothing but bad television, we finally got a taste of drama on Tuesday afternoon. It was politics at its best and its worst. It was a success…
Whatever happened to the UCP’s belligerent response to inconvenient European bankers and environmental litigators?
Once upon a time in Alberta if some foreign bank had dared to announce it wasn’t about to put money into any more Alberta oilsands projects there would have been…
Thursday Night Cat Blogging
Sprawled cats.
On Television Part 2 – Cutting The Cord
Those of you who have read THE FIFTH COLUMN: On Television may wonder if the Fifth Columnist has finally decided to cut the cord as it made a pretty good…
A Different Kind of WE Day
This afternoon we saw something we rarely see in Canadian politics; a blockbuster round of testimony before a House of Commons committee during the Summer months. In this case, it…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Grant Robertson exposes how the Cons and Libs alike destroyed Canada’s pandemic warning and response system just when we could least afford…