August 2020
Oil and Alberta Politics: Who’s Funding the United Conservative Party?
Federal Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer speaks at an Alberta UCP convention in Red Deer, May 4, 2018. Photo from Flickr. The case can easily be made that Alberta’s United…
The Talibangelist Conspiracy to Rule America and the West
Talibangelists (aka (aka the pseudo-Christian, far right) would love to force everyone believe in and obey their highly-adulterated pseudo-religion, and to punish those who don’t. Or won’t. Punishment is big…
Climate Emergency Round-Up
The climate emergency has faded from consciousness. It can’t compete with the Covid pandemic, Donald Trump, the Trudeau scandal of the day, the economic collapse that half claim is a…
August 8: Our very dangerous tomorrows
Sorry. My computer crashed in a big (and expensive) way for the past week. I must also warn you that much of today’s news is profoundly depressing. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/07/canadian-ice-shelf-area-bigger-than-manhattan-collapses-due-to-rising-temperatures Not to…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (via Behind the Numbers) examines how women are bearing the brunt of homelessness and insecure housing…
Maybe We Should Ask the Supreme Court to Decide the Face Mask Issue and the Larger Questions
If a province mandates the wearing of face masks in public during the pandemic need the public comply? Do those who reject masks have a right to refuse? Is it…
Covid Update
Lockdown Turns Out To WORSEN Public Health Outcomes, Causing Deaths From Cancer & Other Diseases To Rise Dramatically Collateral damage matters This is important to understand: deaths from cancer,…
Donald Trump and the Unravelling of America
Donald Trump is starting to panic. He can see the writing on the wall, and he now realizes that he is heading for defeat in November. So he is now…
FOR THE ONE WHO IS EXHAUSTED, A BLESSING
FOR THE ONE WHO IS EXHAUSTED, A BLESSING I’m not gonna lie to you – I am exhausted. Not just tired, but a ‘Covid’ kind of dispirited lethargic kind of…
Pretty Ugly
A pandemic, Alan Freeman writes, allows us to see our leaders’ true colours: In the U.S., President Donald Trump downplays the surging death toll of the pandemic, but sees it…
rotd: love and labor in alliance
Revolutionary thought of the day: Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will be socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation. It…
"at your library" in the north island eagle: make screen time count with library e-resources for kids and teens
At Your Library: Make Screen Time Count with Library E-Resources for Kids and Teens You know I’m always going on about the great e-resources you can access through your library.…
Food for thought….
The following food for thought was brought on by a BBC conversation with British scientist James Lovelock on his 101 year with us and who says says population growth means…
Urgent need to squelch political fallout best explains Jason Kenney’s oddly timed nuclear announcement
A Friday in August sure seemed like a peculiar time for government like Jason Kenney’s to announce it had signed onto a multi-province effort to sell natural resources and encourage…
Covid on Two Wheels
This is the 80th annual Sturgis motorcycle rally. Each year up to 500,000 bikers show up for the 10-day event in Sturgis, South Dakota. Like a desert flower blooming after…
On temporary measures
It should never be a surprise to see the Libs talking about big progressive plans – particularly in the context of a mooted election – while making no effort to…
New Westminster Graffiti
Under the rail bridge