Since late 2015 Canada has experienced a marked increase in the number of far-right groups opposed to the governing Liberal Party, immigration and refugees, Muslims, and the nebulous concept of…
Since late 2015 Canada has experienced a marked increase in the number of far-right groups opposed to the governing Liberal Party, immigration and refugees, Muslims, and the nebulous concept of…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Heather Scoffield writes that contrary to the spin from corporate mouthpieces, workers have been eager to find work when it’s been available…
Drugs, sex, rock ‘n’ roll and Republican politics converged in an Oregon forest in the summer of 1970 to pull off an unlikely scheme. It was a tense time in…
A disturbing article in The Guardian on the perilous state of democracy in America. The article presents the views of the leaders of several major US organizations and they’re worried,…
One of Donald Trump’s oldest 40 Thieves, Roger Stone, says Trump should seize power if he loses to Joe Biden in November. Night of the Long Knives? Roger Stone, whose…
Imagine you are in an Ottawa hotel suite with the former Prime Minister of Canada and a former President of the United States. The Secret Service are watching the door,…
It came as a shock. I just found out that Toronto writer Tiffany Gooch and I agree on something. Neither of us is a fan of Mr. Trudeau’s public safety…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times? Perhaps not as dramatic as all that, but yesterday was a tale of two days, for sure. We…
Wildfire smoke from the Oregon and Washington forest conflagrations is beginning to head east. The 48 hour outlook from Firesmoke.ca shows Calgary getting hard hit. The smoke could spread to…
Will the real new age please stand up? “Castaneda’s popularity made him the subject of a TIME magazine cover story, published on 5th March 1973 (Vol. 101 No. 10). In…
Andrew Rawnsley asks, “What kind of Tory government jeopardises the union and tears up the rules of law?” For people who present themselves as super-patriots, Boris Johnson and his coterie…
I also don’t get some Americans..... “Why would ANYONE have voted for Donald Trump? It was like standing on a train track seeing the light coming towards you at full…
Originally published by sixmountains.ca An internal email from North Cowichan’s municipal forester is fuelling concerns that a public consultation process into an interim management plan for the Municipal Forest Reserve…
For viewers of the blog dealing with current events, I am having desperate problems with this site. I cannot make contact with the topic. Indeed, I don’t seem to be…
There’s a bad moon rising for California. Reeling from a resurgence of Covid-19 infections the state ran headfirst into an outbreak of wildfires that have now beset Oregon and Washington.…
A shakeup in the Michael Flynn case. The retired judge, John Gleeson, appointed to advise the court pulls no punches. The Attorney-General’s attempt to have the charges dismissed against Mike…
A friend sent me a copy of a letter he sent to two liberal members of the Ontario Legislature the other day. He was concerned about Ontario’s lack of planning…
Particularly as parents face difficult decisions in determining how to handle a return to unsafe schools in the midst of a pandemic, it’s no surprise that the Moe government’s secrecy…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Patrick Greenfield reports on a new study from the Zoological Society of London showing how wildlife populations are plummeting in the face of…
