Hiding in Plain Sight. America Is Failing.
“Something’s happening here, What it is ain’t exactly clear.” As you watch the goings on in America today, does that ever leave you feeling just a little unsettled? Do you…
August 2020
What’s That Dripping Sound? Oh, It’s What Remains of Alberta’s Petro-Prosperity Stream.
We can’t say we weren’t warned. The fossil energy giants warned us. The Europeans warned us. The investment and insurance giants warned us. They told us, by their words and…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of August 24, 2020
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of August 24, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Aug…
Death by a thousand cuts
Others are rightly pointing out that we have a strong precedent as to what the Saskatchewan Party’s version of austerity actually means, in the form of the disastrous 2017 budget…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that we shouldn’t let distractions about population divert our attention from the role the wealthiest and most privileged few have…
The Cancer Diaries, part 8
Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all. Shakespeare: Hamlet, Act 4 Sc. 3 Those Kegel exercises sure work. I had my doubts at first, but…
Covid Journal, August 28, 2020
Education is our commitment to younger people today so that they will thank us with care and attention later when we need it most. How will the ‘Covid cohort’ treat…
Try As He Might
Erin O’Toole has won the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. But, to achieve that victory, he tied his fortunes to the party’s social conservatives. Alan Freeman writes: In…
Canadian Far-Right Responds to the Murder of Two Protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Jacob Blake, an unarmed black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was shot and paralyzed by police last week, which set off major protests in the city. It was during one of…
Covid Journal, August 20, 2020
Public education is on the ropes and Ford and Lecce are delivering a two-bunch blow below the belt. The unions are AWOL. Boards are screwed.
That Tool, O’Toole.
Hypocrite, thy name is conservative. If you did not know where all that bullshit about equal rights at the new conservative leader’s first news conference came from, you have not…
Site C per MW capex 7x that of Egyptian near-shore wind projects
Because domestic demand by BC Hydro’s residential, commercial and industrial customers has been flat since 2005, the need for Site C is doubtful. Because costs of alternative sources of electricity…
Calling all democrats
Every Canadian concerned about the quality of democracy in this country frets about the inability of our electoral system to do the thing it exists for—create a government that represents…
Doug Ford says his patience with teachers is “running low”. He’s not the only one…
Bias declared right up front. I have a soon to be 7 year old who will be returning to school soon, a daughter entering grade eleven, and a son going…
which side are you on: the unprecedented strike by nba players is a watershed moment for justice
First of all, it’s not a boycott. It’s a strike. And a wildcat strike to boot. When the players on the Milwaukee Bucks chose not to play in the NBA…
August 27—And my birthday. But that is the only good news.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-police-report __________________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hillier-navarro-canada-afghanistan-idiot-1.5701264 The reality is that neither Canada nor the U.S. should have been in Afghanistan in the first place.Despite American propaganda, there was no connection between Afghanistan and…
The Con Balloon Man and the Social Conservatives
In my last post I looked at how Erin O'Toole is trying to change his image. Trying to pretend that although he was elected leader by far right extremists and…
Escape
While I should be working on that, you know, legacy, make-me-famous, immortal and wealthy Covid lockdown project, for which I bought this last years model iPad Pro, I started doodly…
Saving or foregoing oil dollars is a choice
On the day Jason Kenney’s Alberta announced their single year budget deficit will exceed $24 billion, Norway advises it’s national wealth fund had passed C$1.52 trillion in value…