How The Cons Became The Trump Party
It's a political story that ends in a graveyard, and I've been telling it for a long time. The story of the Harper Party, and how the Cons became more…
2020
Trump Says "Snitches Get Stitches"
You tell the truth about Donald Trump and it’ll cost you. There was plenty of that today as the Mango Mussolini, reveling in his staged impeachment acquittal, took his revenge…
#Cdnpolicast – China Relations, Online Privacy & Quebec Secularism
The newest episode of “Cdnpolicast” is now up. In this episode Alyson Fair, Geoff Turner, Neil Brodie and I talk about Canada’s Ambassador to China before the House of Commons…
Pope Francis Says – "Eat the Rich"
Pope Francis says tax policies that favour the rich – tax havens, shelters and such – are part of a “structure of sin.” Speaking at the seminar set up by…
Bigger Than It Looks
I kinda feel this should be a bigger story than it has been given time for on our news. The impact on Saskatchewan will be very severe when the ocean…
Earthgauge News – Feb. 5, 2020
https://earthgauge.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/egnews-feb5.mp3 Environmental news featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Broadcast every other Wednesday at 10:00 am EST on CKCU radio 93.1 FM in Ottawa or online at…
Leadership IOU’s
During any leadership campaign there are lots of strategies and approaches that a candidate and their team will take. Some are above board, ethical and morally defensible, while others are…
An Ugly And Mean Party
Frank Graves and Michael Valpy have the numbers that tell what has happened to the Conservative Party. They write: EKOS Research found that four years ago, there was a 10-percentage-point…
and let others do for you: interdependence, and the strength to be vulnerable
“I find it really difficult to ask for help.” I’ve heard many people say this. I don’t know if I ever said this myself, but as a teen and then…
and let others do for you: interdependence, and the strength to be vulnerable
“I find it really difficult to ask for help.” I’ve heard many people say this. I don’t know if I ever said this myself, but as a teen and then…
and let others do for you: interdependence, and the strength to be vulnerable
“I find it really difficult to ask for help.” I’ve heard many people say this. I don’t know if I ever said this myself, but as a teen and then…
May The Scales Fall From Their Eyes
To the distracted masses, apostolic minions and all evangelicals who worship at the altar of The Beast: Repent. Romney Was Right from chip franklin on Vimeo. Recommend this Post
Libya: Before and After Muammar Gaddafi
Wall-painted portrait of deposed Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. Photo from Flickr. On October 20, 2011, amid protests supported by the governments of the United States and the European Union, an…
Armagideon Time
Heard Willi Williams’ original version coming in this morning. Reminded me of the time me and my Jamaican brother Karl Hale saw him play it at the Phoenix, in the…
Capturing the horror of war in Beanpole
Beanpole Kantemir Balagov Non-Stop Production, 2019 Opening at the Film Forum in New York City Beanpole is a Russian film set in Leningrad just after the Second World War has…
Road biking in Umbria
A world full of beautiful back roads wending their way through valleys, fields, medieval hilltop towns, up mountains. Umbria is a great place to ride. It’s known mostly for food…
This is the face of a hero
RIP. A Chinese doctor who tried to issue the first warning about the deadly coronavirus outbreak has died, the hospital treating him has said. Li Wenliang contracted the virus while…
It costs less than a house and you feel welcome.
Huh? Sorry, I might have dozed off there. I was dreaming of running to be the leader of the Green Party of Canada. I will just have to run a…
Is the divisive, coordinated, push (and potential rejection) for Teck Frontiers actually designed to justify a quid-pro-quo?
Something has felt off about the coordinated divisive and hyper-focused campaign by the fuckwad UCP and the Harper & Associates IDU aligned CPC on the approval, or rather the threats…