Haters are back in court – and we’ll be opposing them
Here’s STAMP’s release. Anyone who wants to email me directly for comment can do so at wkinsella at gmail dot com.
2020
What was Saskatchewan’s media doing when it wasn’t reporting on Scott Moe’s driving record?
Seriously, what was the media in Saskatchewan doing when it wasn’t investigating Scott Moe’s history of drunk and, on one occasion, deadly driving? Wednesday morning, the province’s Saskatchewan Party premier…
Mother Mushroom, blogging and freedom of speech
As I post pearls of wisdom on my blog, including righteous criticism about this country’s follies, I rarely stop to think how fortunate I am to be able to do…
A REAL REPUBLICAN ON TRUMP
Donald Trump attacked former McCain campaign strategist Steve Schmidt on Twitter. Schmidt responded, and it is a thing of glory: “You’ve never beaten me at anything. This is our first…
Oct. 8: sometimes one gets pessimistic
I’m still on “big series” of basic events that most of our new media don’t tell us about. And this is an unpleasant one. But we have to face reality.…
HOW CAREGIVING CHANGES US: WHAT DIES, WHAT GROWS
You may not accept the title of caregiver. Regardless, you have cared for another, enduring ongoing uncertainty and self-doubt, amid evolving and unwanted relationship changes, and changing networks. It has…
Name that Pox !!!
It’s all the rage. Name the Pox, whatever it was that took Donald J. Trump to Walter Reed last year. Not the Covid thing. Way before that. November 16, 2019.…
Militia Thugs Plotted to Kidnap Michigan Governor and Put Her on Trial
Six men associated with a right-wing militia have been charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer, and put her on trial for treason. The six men had talked…
Sad But Possibly True. Will Trump Take the US Out of the Paris Climate Pact on November 4th?
It’s hard to believe but there’s a real possibility that November could become one of the most important months in human history, perhaps the most important. There’s an emerging consensus…
The Damage We’re Inflicting on Our Young
You might understand climate breakdown. It might cause you a measure of anxiety. But what you’re experiencing is on a different plane to how young people are experiencing this threat.…
Our Indifference is Killing the World
Will we, for that matter can we, turn this around in time? The editorial in the latest Lancet, Planetary Health, focuses on the collapsing populations of wildlife, killed off by…
Eco-socialist almost wins Green Party leadership: What does this mean?
Eco-socialist Dimitri Lascaris came within a narrow margin of winning the Green Party leadership race on October 3. With a call to “wrest power from private corporations and bring the…
Evidence of Mount Sicker’s boom-and-bust mining past still awaits history buffs
First in an occasional feature series on the Six Mountains Originally published by https://www.sixmountains.ca TW Paterson leads me around a locked yellow gate and along a gravel logging road atop…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Marc Lee examines the folly of the B.C. Libs’ plan to slash the province’s PST rather than investing in any recovery. And…
Daylight Savings Debacle
In these days of COVID it’s interesting to see what legislation different elected people decide to continue to pursue. There are always different kinds of hobby horse bills floating around,…
No time like the present
Shorter Scott Moe (with an uninformed boost from Murray Mandryk): An election is no time to assess the suitability of candidates for public office. Needless to say, we’ve heard a…
No Bobble Head
I have always enjoyed reading E.J. Dionne’s columns. Perhaps that’s because I feel a distant kinship with his French Canadian forebears. Dionne writes that Kamela Harris did a superb job…
It’s not about who won or lost.
Your choice of who won the American vice-presidential debate in Utah last night tells more about you than the antagonists. Supporters of either were not disappointed. We knew that vice-president…
It’s Good to Understand the First 5000 Years of Debt
How can we make sense of governments around the world taking on more debt during the COVID-19 pandemic when beforehand they were repulsed by the concept of going into debt?…
Virtual Insanity
In 2020 things seemed to have moved at the speed of light, making it so hard to keep up. Days have felt like hours, as big event after big event…