Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Andrew Leach and Martin Olszynski go into detail about the calculations around the Teck Frontier mine – and particularly how any pricing assumptions…
2020
Our aboriginals need better PR.
In a career in public relations work, I have never seen a group screw themselves so badly as Canada’s aboriginals. I have worked with them in fighting forest fires in…
NC Council approves 2,000 cubic metres of logging in Municipal Forest Reserve, rejects additional cutting pending consultation with UBC, public
Originally published by Sixmountains.ca North Cowichan council has rejected a staff suggestion to approve logging an additional 5,000 cubic metres from the Municipal Forest Reserve. Instead, council voted unanimously to…
Albertans’ emotionally abusive relationship with the UCP
Well, Albertans, I’m sorry to say; but according to a random blog I found we may be in an emotionally abusive relationship with the fuckwad UCP. Let’s look at some…
Great tweets: politics or animals or maybe both
Here’s some tweets I enjoyed this week.And doesn’t it always seem that January DRAGGGGS while February goes so FAST? TAKE. NO. CRAP. ?? pic.twitter.com/iBVE1fuQNC — Jay Arnold ?️? (@JadedCreative) February…
Elizabeth May asks, ‘At what cost, Canada?’
By Elizabeth May | Opinion | February 12th 2020 On Friday, February 7, 2020, the CEO of Trans Mountain pipeline, Ian Anderson, announced that the costs of building the pipeline…
John Baird Crashes Out Of The Con Leadership Race
He swam menacingly around the shark tank. He couldn't make up his mind. He knew the Cons were hoping he'd liven up their deadly boring leadership race.He knew they were…
On Being a “Boomer”
Generations When I was growing up in the 1950s and onward there was not all this talk about generations that seems to have become a fascination of the last twenty…
Feb. 13: Not a good day.
BP (British Petroleum) will lead the way in dealing with climate change? Duh, not likely. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2020/feb/12/bp-statement-on-reaching-net-zero-carbon-emissions-by-2050-what-it-says-and-what-it-means_________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/12/venezuela-crisis-babies-die-malnutrition-depression-deprivation-infant-mortality As this story shows, much of the blame for this horror rests on…
Elizabeth May Asks "Why?"
Former Green Party leader Elizabeth May wants to know what’s behind the Liberal government’s decision to acquire the Trans-Mountain pipeline, a.k.a. “Trudeau’s Folly.” Among other things, May wants to know…
Premier Horgan- I strongly suggest you go yourself to meet with Gitxsan and Wet’suet’en chiefs.
Dear Mr. Horgan, I strongly suggest you go yourself to meet with Gitxsan and Wet’suet’en chiefs. You are the premier of this province, our highest ranking leader. Sending Scott Fraser…
February Will Be Remembered As the Month the Worm Turned On the Petro-State
What a month it has been for the Oil Patch and we’re not even halfway through. It began on the 2nd when CNBC’s brash investment guru, Jim Cramer, pronounced the…
Deficient
Failures and reversals of John Horgan’s government mount. The NDP promise to apply UNDRIP is proving as hollow as acknowledgments NDP members make when meeting upon unceded indigenous territory in British…
The FBI just moved white supremacist terrorism to the same threat level as ISIS
Originally posted in Upworthy.com By Annie Reneau Many people think of “terrorism” and immediately conjure images of ISIS or Al-Qaeda suicide bombers. But in the U.S., terrorism has another face—one…
How to Learn Using Technology
Learning with technology is different from learning with textbooks or learning with classroom instruction. In these, the focus is on understanding and remembering. It is content based. The learning objective…
Will The Native Protests Kill The Reconciliation Process?
As I'm sure you know, there have been protests all over the country, in solidarity with the hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in northern B.C.And while most of the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ed Broadbent and Andrew Jackson highlight how among its other advantages, a national pharmacare program would prevent workers from being tied to…
Going, Going ……
I posted recently about the Teck tarsands development that is seeking the Trudeau regime’s approval. If the government gives its go-ahead to the project, it will destroy whatever remnants remain…
Increasing Chaos
The chaos surrounding the natural gas pipeline in British Columbia is spreading across the country. And Linda McQuaig is struck by the difference between how the Trudeau government treats Jason…