The Curious Case of the Magna Carta and the Covidiot Footballer
This has been a hard week mentally and emotionally for a lot of us, and I have to admit that it’s wearing on me. If you’ve heard some of my…
June 2021
Peru’s Pedro Castillo represents a challenge to the Canadian mining industry
Peru’s socialist presidential candidate Pedro Castillo, the favourite to win the runoff vote on June 6, will serve as a challenge to the Canadian mineral industry in Latin America. Photo…
Doug Ford and the PCs plan another decade of austerity — except even harsher this time
Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) reports that the nominal health care funding increases planned by the Ford PC goverment between 2019/20 to 2029-30 fall well short of the nominal increases…
Changing Oil
The oil industry is changing. as it is dragged — kicking and screaming — into the future. Tom Friedman writes: Since the 1990s, the wisest oil-producing countries and companies have…
Covid Journal, June 2, 2021
The news has been a little overwhelming for me in the last few days. Residential schools, MMIWG issues and the 100th anniversary of the bombing of Black Wall Street in…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Providing for Guardianship of your Children in your Last Will
The appointment you make in you Last Will is temporary A Court application is necessary to appoint a permanent Guardian for your children. A Court will pay close attention to…
Avi Lewis brings bold Green New Deal vision to NDP campaign
Fillmmaker and Leap co-founder Avi Lewis is running for the NDP in the next federal election. He secured the nomination for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country in late May.…
Jason Kenney decries ‘cancel culture’ in lengthy monologue defending John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first PM
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s cranky lecture about “cancel culture” yesterday notwithstanding, no one is proposing that John A. Macdonald’s name be erased from the pages of Canadian history or we…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cleanup crew cats.
Stop Hustling Black Death
In her memoir, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Anne Moody describes her experience at the 1963 March on Washington. It is not the glorious image to which we have become…
The Decarie Report 2021-06-01 20:54:00
Are you proud to be a Canadian? Better think about it first. In Kamloops BC, a giant grave has been found. It is on the site of a school operated…
Unchecked commercial fraud
Corporate media can’t be bothered to report what is happening at BC Hydro. Facts are readily available; they’re just not examined. The reason why was explained by the organization Fairness…
Plague Update: Vaccinations And Premature[?] ReOpenings Proceeding
A new visual to show Saskatchewan's vaccination disparity by gender. Since data is released weekly I've stacked each week's release on top of the other to show the accumulation. Notice…
The Numbers That Will Give The Trudeau Liberals a Majority
In a recent post, I wrote about Erin O'Toole's astounding surge in an Abacus Poll, and I wondered whether that meant he could win the next election. For it was…
Pride
June is Pride month, a time when we recognise some of the glorious human diversity in the world. We celebrate being able to be openly who we are, and specifically,…
But Wait, There’s More – Human Experimentation on Residential School Children
Ian Mosby, PhD, has written a history of biomedical experimentation on indigenous people in Canada during the second half of the 20th century. A review of Mosby’s work, “Canada’s shameful…
Would you name a street after a Nazi symbol?
Read this story. Sign our petition. We need your help. Guzar and some of his neighbours approached Warren Kinsella, a former journalist, Toronto lawyer and former Liberal Party strategist who…
Books of Quotations from Shakespeare
A good book of selected quotations from Shakespeare is a nice complement to the collected works. Properly arranged, it lets you find relevant aphorisms, and speeches on a wide variety…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Robert Hiltz warns against letting the leaders responsible for preventable COVID deaths off the hook as part of an attempt to turn…