Donald “Asshole” Trump
Back in 2012 — several years before the 2016 US election that saw what many believe was an inept, incompetent, lying, Russian agent and con artist get elected to the…
2020
cpmvfsgu day 3
We had another good breakfast at Popsey’s, then hit the road to Victoria. Campbell River is halfway between Port Hardy, the northernmost town on the Island, and Victoria, at the…
Erin O’Toole and the Big Fat Tory Lie
At least Canada’s conservatives are consistent. When they’re out of power they all promise to get Canada’s financial house in order if and when they again hold the reins of…
North Cowichan’s Four Public Engagements. Is It A Plot?
Get ready. Coming our way, and underway already, beginning with the Official Community Plan (OCP) are four critically important public consultation processes that will determine, lock down, basically carve in…
Winners & Losers: CBC New Brunswick Election Leaders Forum
The New Brunswick provincial election comes to an end in less than a week on Monday, September 14th Given the nature of this first COVID campaign in Canada, every chance…
We still need the U.S.
Reading The Guardian last week, two articles captured my attention. Set side by side were “A ‘tyrant-clown’ has destroyed my love affair with America” by Robert McCrum and “‘Chairman Xi’…
Municipal documents expose shameful plan to keep citizens in the dark on public consultation on forest reserve
Freedom-of-information documents reveal that the Municipality of North Cowichan deliberately withheld important information on reasons for a 60-day pause in public consultation on the future of the Municipal Forest Reserve.…
Good riddance
You won’t be missed.
There Are Only Two Types of Americans – Liars and that One Guy Who Tells the Truth.
Donald Trump wants Americans to believe. He wants Americans to believe he alone is to be believed. He wants Americans to believe that the others are all liars. Journalists are…
Covid Journal, Sept 9, 2020
‘Back to School’ Welcome back everyone. After nearly 6 months ‘away’, unions, teachers, administrators, students, parents and everyone else tied to the educational system are all adding their own ingredients…
Why Are Americans So Terrified of Socialism Yet Crazy For Authoritarianism
Americans despise socialism, whatever they imagine that to be. They automatically conflate socialism with Communism and totalitarianism, the loss of their constitutionally guaranteed, democratic rights. It’s the Freedumb Factor at…
Don’t Worry, It’s Just Pre-Revolutionary Indigestion
It is said that America has never been as deeply divided, across so many fault lines, since the Civil War. Social cohesion is broken, perhaps irreparably. Chris Hedges maintains that…
Knowledge Is Power. Panic Is Death. Reconnection Is Resilience
Knowledge is power. Bacon was right about one thing, at least. People are afraid of wolves, coyotes, snakes, bugs, bears…the flu. Our ability to assess danger rationally in our modern,…
Political openings: Class struggle during and after the pandemic
One in seven small businesses in Canada are at risk of closing permanently as a result of COVID-19 in addition to the ones that have already shuttered. Photo from Pixabay.…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Diane Peters discusses how everybody has a stake in the safe reopening of schools this fall. And Masks4Canada is tracking cases of school…
Banff Panoramas
Bow River Athabasca Glacier terminus In the Alpine
The GOP Lunacy File – Michelle Bachmann
In 2012 she was briefly the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination. Wow, did the Republicans and America dodge a bullet there. Now Michelle Bachmann is taking to the televangelist…
Doing what they do best.
It is time for the conservatives in parliament to return to what they do best: criticize. They are so good at it that they have more people lined up to…
Hit the Trail, Amigos! Gearing Up for the Great Outdoors
A Trestles Elite Eco 20 Sleeping Bag….. Perfect. (And again, I get no commission from anyone – so far; though maybe I should reconsider that. I just promote things that…
The Strike At CKLG-You Don’t Get Me I’m Part Of the Union
I had been working at CFUN in the News department and grew dissatisfied with the working conditions and lack of basic worker rights. Along with staff at CKLG we began…