June 2021
Why this year’s UN vote on Cuba embargo is more urgent than ever
Plaza de la Revolución, Havana. Photo by Gilbert Sopakuwa/Flickr. On June 23, the United Nations General Assembly will vote to condemn the six-decade-long United States embargo of Cuba. Again. The…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Joe Vipond, Kashif Perzeda and Danielle Cane write that Canada’s failure to talk about the airborne transmission of COVID-19 (or the public health…
This just in … Father’s Day is Sunday
I’ve got some potentially bad news for any of you who have a father: Sunday is Father’s Day. Your reaction to this news will vary from “Yes, I know it’s…
Saturday Photo: Gypsy Moths….
This week I went for a walk in one of my favourite places, the Mount Royal Cemetery. This time of year it usually is full of flowers and fruit like…
The Corrupt PC Nomination Process
This week, Stella Ambler, a former candidate for the nomination for the PC party in Simcoe Grey, sent an email that expressed her disappointment over the party’s authoritarian actions: On…
It’s Not Easy Being Green
Things are not going well inside The Green Party of Canada. Michael Harris writes: In a tense meeting of the Green Party of Canada’s national council on Tuesday, it was…
Sajjan Is Not the Sex Police.
The opposition parties in Ottawa have voted for a politically motivated censure and are demanding the resignation of Canada’s defence minister Harjit Sajjan. The opposition parties are complaining that he…
Mission accomplished? Jason Kenney rolls the dice again on a swift reopening
Never mind the obvious risk or his expensive and expansive record of bad bets, Jason Kenney rolled the dice again yesterday on Alberta’s pandemic reopening. Delta variant or no variant,…
CP story on today’s court proceeding
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Musical interlude
Metric – Blindness
321 years into a 246 year cycle
Canada’s federal government gave $4.5 billion to Kinder Morgan for Trans Mountain after the owners had difficulty financing expansion of the pipeline. By 2020, the new construction budget had soared…
Fair deal for Calgary?
The list of plebiscites Calgarians will be asked to vote on in the October municipal election is growing. The City will ask voters once again (this is a periodic exercise)…
Shuffling the Politically Damaged Deck Chairs
We are a year out from the next provincial election in Ontario and the parties are all starting to look ahead to that campaign. Everything is starting to look through…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – CBC News reports on the expert response to deaths caused by the spread of the Delta COVID-19 variant in a Calgary hospital –…
Something Amazing Could Be Unfolding Before Our Eyes
Over the past two decades the American southwest has been hit by droughts. That hasn’t stopped the region from growing with the arrival of newcomers, especially retirees from the northern…
Doubling Down on Racism – The Chris Champion Edition
Over at the Dorchester Review, we find one Chris Champion doubling down on his position that the "Indian Residential Schools (IRS) really weren't all that bad". The dust-up on Twitter…
"If You Can’t Afford To Live, Then Don’t Live"
That is the considered opinion of Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn, as he responds to the Supreme Court ruling upholding The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). America the beautiful, eh? Recommend this…
Bernier v. Kinsella
Our SLAPP motion against Maxime Bernier has started. Here’s my main affidavit. Please read.
What are the Liberals hiding this time?
By sending redacted versions of Canada’s COVID vaccine contracts directly to the House of Commons’ Health Committee, the Trudeau government is hiding information directly related to our health and well-being…