I Found a Gold Mine – Verdict
Today I somehow stumbled across what is one of the best web sites I’ve ever visited, Verdict or verdict.justia.com to be precise. Verdict is a repository of legal analysis and…
2020
This Is Unbelievable
I’ve seen a lot in my life, but I am still trying to process this story: At a carnival procession in Spain, participants dressed like Nazis and Jewish concentration camp…
A Song For Jack
Poet Jack J Locke passed away last week. We got to know each very well during the past year as we co founded The Charter Poets along with Blossom Thom.…
specchio delle mie
https://twitter.com/dougsamu/status/1232429083893665793 Followed Laura when Paper by 53’s Mix was the place to be. Someday we’ll walk Milan and draw buildings and cats.
Democracy Afoot – Scottish Parliament Reaches Out to Nordic Council
It’s no secret that Brexit has driven a wedge between Scotland and England. It was the English, after all, who hatched Brexit and rammed it through against the wishes of…
The Dishonourable Senator from Northwestern Ontario: An Apology Too Late?
In the past two weeks we’ve seen some interesting developments in the case of Senator Lynn Beyak and the calls for her to be removed from her seat in the…
How to Use Fastpages
This is a really interesting project that allows you to write posts in markdown, MS Word or Jupyter notebooks and publish them in a blog using GitHub pages. No website…
Climate Breakdown – the Condo Impact
Climate change is hammering condo owners in British Columbia. Over the last year some condo owners have watched their insurance premiums soar by 400 per cent. Some condos have become…
Greta and Family Struggled
An amazing journey from a very sick kid, to a world leader: "She has succeeded. Some say that she alone has done more for the climate than politicians and the…
China’s Economy: Powerful But Vulernable
Evening skyline in Shanghai. Photo by Adi Constantin. China’s economy is often presented as a powerful engine. This is, however, only one face of it. It has also been marked…
Is the Trans-Atlantic Bromance Over?
Are Donald Trump and Boris Johnson going through a tiff or is the bromance over before the honeymoon really got underway? Business Insider reports that things are going downhill rapidly…
What Were You Expecting If Not a Bit of Chaos?
We’re now in the Decade of Decision. We have the 20s to slash our greenhouse gas emissions by half if we’re to have a reasonable chance of averting irreversible climate…
CBC want the Hot Nasties: October of Seven Oh
A nice guy, a documentary producer, got in touch with me before the SFH gig at the Bovine Friday night. Said they wanted to use the Hot Nasties tune, October…
Reflections On Stillness & Action
We need stillness and action – both, and urgently so. This should be becoming perfectly clear. I’ve travelled through 20 countries, but still I find stillness the greatest adventure, and…
The Rail Detour
Over the last few weeks as Canada has been dealing with the fallout from the Wet’suwet’en protests, we have seen a lot of political leaders doing the opposite of what…
Limbaugh On The Coronavirus
Rush Limbaugh claims that the coronavirus is “a common cold” which is being used to take down Donald Trump. Martin Pengelly writes in The Guardian: The coronavirus outbreak is being…
We get letters: a new pen pal!
This nice fellow objects to me objecting to anyone getting killed.
What to do with the event jerseys
Do you have a drawer full of cycling event jerseys that you never wear? I do. You know the type. Cheap and cheerful, festooned with logos, ill-fitting and suffocating. Can’t…
Be Conscious of Wild Animal Pictures with Tourists
It’s a sad truth that animals are caught in the wild and are then subsequently forced to entertain tourists against their will. Too often “influencers” and regular tourists take pictures…