cpmvfsgu day 6: salt spring island (saturday)
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times? Perhaps not as dramatic as all that, but yesterday was a tale of two days, for sure. We…
2020
The Lakehead by Tuesday
Wildfire smoke from the Oregon and Washington forest conflagrations is beginning to head east. The 48 hour outlook from Firesmoke.ca shows Calgary getting hard hit. The smoke could spread to…
Science, mysticism and enlightenment: or, the use and abuse of language
Will the real new age please stand up? “Castaneda’s popularity made him the subject of a TIME magazine cover story, published on 5th March 1973 (Vol. 101 No. 10). In…
Boundless Mendacity
Andrew Rawnsley asks, “What kind of Tory government jeopardises the union and tears up the rules of law?” For people who present themselves as super-patriots, Boris Johnson and his coterie…
The affliction to the south..
I also don’t get some Americans..... “Why would ANYONE have voted for Donald Trump? It was like standing on a train track seeing the light coming towards you at full…
North Cowichan Internal Email Raises Fears of Talk-and-Log Policy
Originally published by sixmountains.ca An internal email from North Cowichan’s municipal forester is fuelling concerns that a public consultation process into an interim management plan for the Municipal Forest Reserve…
To readers of this blog
For viewers of the blog dealing with current events, I am having desperate problems with this site. I cannot make contact with the topic. Indeed, I don’t seem to be…
California Can’t Catch a Break
There’s a bad moon rising for California. Reeling from a resurgence of Covid-19 infections the state ran headfirst into an outbreak of wildfires that have now beset Oregon and Washington.…
Finally, In Open Court – Bill Barr is Corrupt. The Attorney General of the United States is Corrupt.
A shakeup in the Michael Flynn case. The retired judge, John Gleeson, appointed to advise the court pulls no punches. The Attorney-General’s attempt to have the charges dismissed against Mike…
Ties that bond.
A friend sent me a copy of a letter he sent to two liberal members of the Ontario Legislature the other day. He was concerned about Ontario’s lack of planning…
Unmaintainable
Particularly as parents face difficult decisions in determining how to handle a return to unsafe schools in the midst of a pandemic, it’s no surprise that the Moe government’s secrecy…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Patrick Greenfield reports on a new study from the Zoological Society of London showing how wildlife populations are plummeting in the face of…
Fauci Says, We’re In This For Another year
When it comes to Covid-19, we’ve shown ourselves to be a pretty reckless bunch. Trump wants to persuade voters that he’ll have it wrapped up shortly after the election. Plenty…
Another Trump/Stone/Manafort Gopher Bursts Into Flames
He was a frequent guest on MSNBC panels, a weasel who dutifully tried to defend Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and, above all, Donald Trump. Michael Caputo somehow rose to become…
cpmvfsgu day 5: victoria to salt spring island
I am having the surreal experience of looking through photographs of the wildfire devastation in Washington State, Oregon, and California, and seeing the names of towns where much of my…
Eating off the Hill: Gongfu Bao’s fried chicken bao
Lest you think after my last post that I’m on a very unhealthy fried chicken kick, this lunch was from a few weeks ago. And I wouldn’t put it in…
Never Surrender
I pray the more pessimistic among us, who have warned us, such as Orwell and Huxley and many others, are wrong. We must, in any event, do everything in our…
Saturday Photo: Good Crop of Umbrellas This Summer
Well, it rained a lot here in August, so obviously these folks were on the case. The umbrella stayed there for a couple of weeks, during the worst of the…
Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada, by Samir Shaheen-Hussain
available from leftwingbooks.net An exploration of anti-Indigenous systemic racism in Canadian health care, medical violence inflicted upon Indigenous children, and the medical establishment’s role in colonial genocide. Launched by healthcare…
Doing A Woodward
Roger Cohen — who is recovering from COVID — catalogues all the things “you know” about Donald Trump: You know that ego could not resist 18 interviews with Bob Woodward,…