Eating off the Hill: KFC is cannon fodder in the chicken sandwich wars
It seems like all the cool stuff comes to Canada late. That’s certainly the case with the fast food chicken sandwich wars, which have already been fought and won in…
September 2020
Erin O’Toole’s Shadow Cabinet From Hell
It's an absolute freak show. A real fascist circus, where Erin O'Toole tries to fool Canadians into believing that he's really a nice guy. While the Con clowns in the…
Ontario’s petulant premier.
After more than a year of silly stickers on our gas pumps, Ontario voters have got the message. And the Ontario Court System has finally got around to noting that…
This Is Getting Ugly
Part of my routine every morning is to check Environment Canada’s weather forecast. Now I first visit www.firesmoke.ca to see what I’ll be breathing today. Today is looking pretty grim.…
From Pity to Incredulity
The past 24 hours has been stark and shocking watching what just unfolded in the United States. For the all the things we’ve heard and seen from Donald Trump in…
A Fascist Project
Henry Giroux does not pull his punches. Donald Trump, he writes, is fanning white wing violence in an effort to establish a fascist state: Nobody should justify assaults that lead…
Lock Him Up, Lock Him Up – and Throw Away the Key.
Donald Trump defends his decision to mislead the American people about the Covid-19 virus for two months, claiming he didn’t want to ‘panic’ the public. There is much wrapped up…
I See a Wind Turbine and I Want it Paint it Black
Believe it or not there are people out there who don’t want renewable energy and actively campaign to keep our power grid based on world-destroying fossil fuels. These backward thinking…
Donald “Asshole” Trump
Back in 2012 — several years before the 2016 US election that saw what many believe was an inept, incompetent, lying, Russian agent and con artist get elected to the…
cpmvfsgu day 3
We had another good breakfast at Popsey’s, then hit the road to Victoria. Campbell River is halfway between Port Hardy, the northernmost town on the Island, and Victoria, at the…
Erin O’Toole and the Big Fat Tory Lie
At least Canada’s conservatives are consistent. When they’re out of power they all promise to get Canada’s financial house in order if and when they again hold the reins of…
North Cowichan’s Four Public Engagements. Is It A Plot?
Get ready. Coming our way, and underway already, beginning with the Official Community Plan (OCP) are four critically important public consultation processes that will determine, lock down, basically carve in…
Winners & Losers: CBC New Brunswick Election Leaders Forum
The New Brunswick provincial election comes to an end in less than a week on Monday, September 14th Given the nature of this first COVID campaign in Canada, every chance…
We still need the U.S.
Reading The Guardian last week, two articles captured my attention. Set side by side were “A ‘tyrant-clown’ has destroyed my love affair with America” by Robert McCrum and “‘Chairman Xi’…
Municipal documents expose shameful plan to keep citizens in the dark on public consultation on forest reserve
Freedom-of-information documents reveal that the Municipality of North Cowichan deliberately withheld important information on reasons for a 60-day pause in public consultation on the future of the Municipal Forest Reserve.…
Good riddance
You won’t be missed.
There Are Only Two Types of Americans – Liars and that One Guy Who Tells the Truth.
Donald Trump wants Americans to believe. He wants Americans to believe he alone is to be believed. He wants Americans to believe that the others are all liars. Journalists are…
Covid Journal, Sept 9, 2020
‘Back to School’ Welcome back everyone. After nearly 6 months ‘away’, unions, teachers, administrators, students, parents and everyone else tied to the educational system are all adding their own ingredients…
Why Are Americans So Terrified of Socialism Yet Crazy For Authoritarianism
Americans despise socialism, whatever they imagine that to be. They automatically conflate socialism with Communism and totalitarianism, the loss of their constitutionally guaranteed, democratic rights. It’s the Freedumb Factor at…
Don’t Worry, It’s Just Pre-Revolutionary Indigestion
It is said that America has never been as deeply divided, across so many fault lines, since the Civil War. Social cohesion is broken, perhaps irreparably. Chris Hedges maintains that…