You can’t cancel Canada Day.
Trading barbs and cheap shots, Canada’s 43rd parliament rose for the summer recess this past week and will likely not return in the fall. The mood of the house and…
June 2021
How Justin Trudeau Is Turning Canada Liberal Red
In my last post I looked at how a number of polls were suggesting that the Trudeau Liberals are becoming more and popular. And I wondered when would be the…
Maintaining infinite growth on a finite planet
Choose your activities carefully and do your part to maintain infinite growth on a finite planet. Put away your bicycle. P.S. Walking is even worse. Pedestrians don’t even buy bicycles.
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan highlight how inequitable access to vaccines around the globe increases the risk of variants which will hurt everybody.…
SaskPower’s War On Solar
Today the utility described the home generation of 16MW of solar and wind power as "insignificant." The clear message: solar and solar customers are a problem to be managed. Not…
drum
twitter.com/dougsamu/status/1408841351073087494 A #Procreate #Artmash prompt prompted putting this together.
Yeah, They’re There. No, We Don’t Know What They Are.
That sums up the blockbuster report on “unidentified aerial phenomenon” that have been seen, tracked and recorded zipping through US airspace. The US government has said it has no explanation…
"Failed" – It Sounds Better than "Defeated"
Former Afghan warlord turned president turned pundit in exile, Hamid Karzai, complains that the US and her allies “failed” Afghanistan and are leaving the country “in total disgrace.” At least…
Judge him by his friends
Maxime Bernier promotes Instagram feed of far-right vlogger who once called Nuremberg Trials a "kangaroo court" https://t.co/ftHfj8p15S via @georgiastraight #MaximeBernier @cinecraig @antihateca @adl @berniefarber @kinsellawarren — Charlie Smith (@charliesmithvcr) June…
Saturday Photo: Gate to Where?
Lots of changes in the world. Sad news about the past coming out. Pandemic easing here, but raging elsewhere. All of this, plus drought and heat waves come to mind…
A Condensed History of Canada’s Colonial Cops
FEATURES A Condensed History of Canada’s Colonial Cops How the RCMP has secured the imperialist power of the north By M. GOULDHAWKEMARCH 10, 2020 “The myth of the RCMP…
what i’m reading: the cold millions by jess walter
There is an accepted wisdom that socialism and communism failed, and capitalism prevailed, because the former is bad, and the latter is good. That humankind rejected socialism and embraced capitalism,…
Experience Counts For Something
It’s remarkable. Lawrence Martin writes that, when it comes to choosing presidents and prime ministers, we have preferred men who have had little experience in government. Mr. Obama, who served…
“A Call to Arms.”
It might not be up to the style of a Hemingway opus but the complaints by Canada’s military ombudsman the other day seemed to be from a man who does…
North Cowichan troubled by senseless spray painting on Maple Mountain trails
North Cowichan’s parks and recreation director says he is disappointed that someone has taken it upon themself to spray paint numerous trees to needlessly mark the blue and yellow…
Sufferance by Thomas King tops Alberta Independent bookshops’ fiction bestseller list for week ended June 20
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, June 20, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Musical interlude
Tracey Thorn – Dancefloor
The Nearing End
There are 751 unmarked graves at a Catholic church school for Indian children. This one is in Saskatchewan. So far, the Catholic church has had nothing to say. And it…
Charlie Angus NDP MP-Residential Schools- Reflections of a Crime Scene
Charlie Angus NDP – NPD Originally posted on Facebook. 23 June at 18:20 A REFLECTION ON A CRIME SCENE: Charlie Angus MP 751 bodies have been found at…
Can Erin O’Toole and his Bigot Party Look More Like Losers?
Erin O'Toole looked a little subdued yesterday. He just wasn't his usual Trudeau bashing self. But then who can blame him? After more than half of his Bigot Party caucus…