2020
But What About the Free Celine Dion Tickets?
Canada won’t be sitting on the UN Security Council. Norway, yes. Ireland, yes. Canada, oh Canada, no. Maybe it’s because of our disgraceful voting record on issues Palestinian and Israeli.…
International community rejects Canada’s bid for a seat on UN Security Council
June 17, 2020 – Canada lost its high-profile bid for one of the rotating seats on the United Nations Security Council. A total of 128 votes were needed to secure…
Good
Trudeau needed to be taught a lesson. Also, I’m Irish. Erin Go Bragh. CANADA loses #UNSC bid on first ballot. Norway and Ireland win. — David Akin (@davidakin) June 17,…
Le Bloc Hypocrite
These have been hard days all over and the same is true here at home in Canada. While we’ve seen the protests against racism in the United States, we’ve seen…
Baking America
2020 is on course to be the hottest year since temperature records were first kept. It’s been widely predicted by the science types that we’re in for a steady succession…
Despite the Economy-Killing Pandemic, Could 2020 Be the Hottest Year Ever?
The global pandemic has caused a drop in emissions with fewer vehicles on our roads, airliners grounded and idle, factories shuttered, etc. In heavily polluted cities the results have been…
Aunt Jemima Being Shown the Door. Uncle Ben May Be Next.
PepsiCo is removing the image of Aunt Jemima from its line of pancake mix and syrup. Fair enough. Racist overtones? Of course. When we were kids we didn’t think of…
Fighting for prison abolition across the Prairies: An interview with Free Lands Free Peoples organizer Karrie Auger
Barbed wire along a prison wall. Photo from iStock. Along with the North, the Prairies is the most heavily incarcerated region in the country. Canada has a national incarceration rate…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thomas Walkom writes about the Libs’ dangerous efforts to turn the page on COVID-19 as Canada’s primary political concern. – Murray Mandryk highlights…
On imbalanced budgets
This week’s resumption of activity in the Legislative Assembly has given rise to a familiar back-and-forth over the provincial budget. As usual, we’re seeing the government and opposition spar over…
Billy Holiday and Nina Simone Sang Out About White Supremacy -Still Poignant Today
Richard Hughes Those of us who are familiar with Billy Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ and Nina Simone’s ‘Mississippi God Damn’ should listen again. Those who have not please do so…
An Election Unlike Any Other
2020 has been a crazy year so far between a global pandemic, mass protests in the United States and more to add to that. There have been so many things…
Irrelevant Conservatives
The Conservative leadership debates begin this week. Tonight the contenders will debate in French. Tomorrow they will debate in English. But, Susan Delacourt writes, the contenders have much more to…
A pandemic is no time to be Tory.
You need to be considerate of your conservative friends in these troubled times. You might even think kindly of inviting some conservatives into your circle. Share the lottery of covid-19…
What does it mean to be progressive now?
I’m old, my twenty year old thinks I fart dust. I used to view myself as a progressive, I still do but I don’t know whether my views match up…
Alert the media! Fair Deal Panel recommendations to be trotted out today
Today we will see the results of the efforts of Alberta’s Fair Deal Panel throughout the first half of 2020. We know this because the Kenney Government yesterday emailed out…
Room Rater rated my room
Forgot to mention that. Here you go. Books, guitars and masks are a few of our favourite things. Love the raven. Acceptable proportion of horizontal stacking. 8/10 @kinsellawarren pic.twitter.com/J5Addauf1X —…
Is the Secrecy Train of public consultation on a one-way track?
The Secrecy Train came to town the other day, with a virtual stop in the Municipality of North Cowichan. The 16-member citizens’ Working Group guiding the public consultation process into…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats getting comfortable.