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…
“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…
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: 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…