Kenney Stands Up For Doomed Oil
Nowhere in Canada is more cursed than Alberta. It’s the Resource Curse. And Jason Kenney is the leader of the cursed. At the empty Tesla charging station in Fort Macleod.…
October 2020
Anti-Semitism and the Green Party of Canada’s Leadership Contest
"I have been subjected to months of antisemitic attacks. The moment it became known that I was Jewish, I was bombarded with questions about my positions on Israel, the Boycott,…
Anti-Semitism and the Green Party of Canada’s Leadership Contest
"I have been subjected to months of antisemitic attacks. The moment it became known that I was Jewish, I was bombarded with questions about my positions on Israel, the Boycott,…
Anti-Semitism and the Green Party of Canada’s Leadership Contest
“I have been subjected to months of antisemitic attacks. The moment it became known that I was Jewish, I was bombarded with questions about my positions on Israel, the Boycott,…
“Who gives a fuck about Christmas?”
And, on the children who have been forcibly separated from their parents: “Give me a fucking break.“ “Who gives a fuck about Christmas?“ – Mrs. Trump. #USPolitics https://t.co/f3BdNXdEua — Warren…
R.I.P U.S.A.
I confess to being kind of excited to watch the first presidential debate between Democrat Joseph R. Biden II (his full New York Times title), and Trump party candidate Donald…
"A Horror Movie With 400 Endings to Choose From"
Trump may still surround himself with climate change deniers but the climate breakdown hens are coming home to roost in almost every corner of the United States. Trump didn’t create…
Backhanded Flattery
Google reports a big spike in Americans looking for information on how to relocate to Canada after Tuesday’s presidential debate. Following a debate derailed by interruptions, people speaking over each…
Mr. Ford is enjoying the game.
Doug Ford has come a long way for a guy who made his mark selling labels for his father’s printing company. Today, in the midst of a pandemic, he is…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tom Kibasi examines how the UK Cons’ mismanagement – both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic – has resulted in disastrous public…
The cost of resistance
Julian Assange and Roger Hallam. Illustration by Mr. Fish for Scheerpost. Two of the rebels I admire most, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher, and Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Extinction…
Covid Journal, October 1, 2020
Tax cheats everywhere trying to soak up public money.
Mewling And Puking
Like Donald Trump, Boris Johnson is a narcissist. John Crace writes: Like most narcissists, Boris Johnson is unable to conceive of other people having an independent existence. Rather, they are…
Floating Trash Bins a Great Success, May Influence Policies
We’ve been following the installation and study of Seabins in Toronto for a while now. Good news just keeps happening from these floating garbage cans! Floating trash collectors were put…
America to Trump: shut up
Jean Chretien used to say to us: “I don’t need to be in the paper every day. People don’t like it.” Yep. And my daughter and I saw the same…
Talking the First Trump-Biden Debate with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Zoe Knowles for a rare Wednesday appearance. We talked about the first Trump-Biden Presidential Debate, the dumpster fire of…
BC Hydro salaries
BC Hydro withheld its Financial Information Act Return for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 until September 30, the final day before failure to publish the report would have…
One cheer for the UCP politician who made Alberta Cheezies a household word!
Take it from an old newshound old enough to remember when newshounds were an actual thing: When someone accuses a reporter of taking their words out of context, what they…
Censorship, Big Tech & The Closing Down of Society
Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, and the MAGATs – Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon and Twitter – are all now embedded and engaged in censorship, data mining, privacy invasion, the new global…