A conversation about BC Hydro
My conversation about BC Hydro with Chris Cook for CFUV 101.9 FM radio in Victoria. Chris regularly addresses issues not well covered by corporate media. BC Hydro’s difficulties definitely fit…
October 2020
How I fight my inner gym teacher
An occasional riding buddy asked me why I pay for a coach when I don’t race bikes. I enjoy riding my bike. So much so that if I could, I…
How I fight my inner gym teacher
An occasional riding buddy asked me why I pay for a coach when I don’t race bikes. I enjoy riding my bike. So much so that if I could, I…
My latest: working for Joe Biden and the Dems
None of us. There is a simple reason why no one really wants to say Donald Trump is going to lose in 2020. Because no one really got it right…
Horgan and Weaver The Bromance Continues
Sat down to call some supporters and this guy was at the top of my list. Professor @AJWVictoriaBC, I'm so proud of the work we've done together — especially CleanBC.…
Musical interlude
PVRIS – White Noise
On starting points
It’s certainly been interesting to see Saskatchewan’s local corporate media go out of its way to trample coverage of the leadership debate with a poll which was outdated from the…
Politics, Ya Gotta Love The Horgan-Weaver Bromance!
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What Now?
When I spotted the BBC headline, “The grim fate that could be worse than extinction,” I instinctively recoiled and thought, “fuck, what now?” I don’t know about you but with…
Friday #skvotes Links
The latest news and notes from Saskatchewan’s 2020 election campaign. – Nicholas Frew reports that a majority of Saskatchewan’s voters are willing to fund a reduction in class sizes. And…
The Temptation to be Tory.
It appears that the leopard is still unable to change his spots. At least conservatives such as Ontario’s Doug Ford and Alberta’s Jason Kenney fail to stray long from their…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Chris Giles reports that even the IMF is warning governments not to engage in avoidable austerity. And Richard Kozul-Wright and Nelson Barbosa write…
The electric car comes to Oakville
In late September, Ford reached a deal with Unifor to build electric vehicles at the Oakville assembly plant. The three-year deal includes investing $1.95 billion in two Ontario facilities. Photo…
Filibusted Tactics
I’ve had the good fortune in my live of getting to learn many great lessons about politics and how to go about it. My near decade on Parliament Hill taught…
Eyes On The Prize
COVID exposed the inequalities in our system. Now it is exacerbating them. Frances Ryan writes in The Guardian: There are times in which it feels as if we are running…
Trudeau isn’t as popular as he used to be…
… but it’s difficult to find a single word, here, with which to disagree. It’s one of the reasons why I think he is going to be reelected: the pandemic…
Throwing health care into chaos isn’t easy, but the UCP’s political staffers are willing to sacrifice to do it
Throwing Alberta’s health care system into chaos isn’t easy. It takes hard work and sacrifice. But thanks to the United Conservative Party’s front-line fighters in the war against fair and…
Mr Not So Nice Guy Erin O’Toole And His Monstrous Cons
In my last post I wondered how long Erin O'Toole would be able to fool Canadians into believing that he was a really nice guy. And not the two-faced leader…
Nixon’s Racist War On Drugs
Sometimes a lie is forgotten. Sometimes it spirals out of control and turns into an international black market. It's been 4 years since the racist War on Drugs (TM) was…
Ricky Tollikko and the Woke Onez Rebellion Try Turning the Dial to 11
Before getting into the meat of the article, we would like to offer this as a preamble: "This Is Spinal Tap" might be, at least in this writer's opinion, the…