Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Relaxed cats.
August 2021
My latest: Team Trudeau’s shitty week two
For Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, week one of the campaign went really, really badly. Week two, therefore, needed to go better. It didn’t. Here’s a roundup of the past week and…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – PressProgress takes a look at the housing plans on offer – finding the NDP’s plan to be the best of the major…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – J. Stacey Klutts offers a summary of the lessons we’ve already learned about the Delta variant – including the need to combine…
Just a Matter of Time
How Enbridge and its Tory handmaidens want Canadians to see the Northern Gateway/Kitimat supertanker route: That’s it. Nothing to worry about. Wide open waters all the way to China. The…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 31, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: A temp agency was ordered to stop billing workers $30,000 for resigning. A new complaint says the practice continues via @TorontoStar – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
A left perspective on vaccine passports
If coercive measures are taken by the state to try and increase levels of vaccination, what approach should the left take, asks CD columnist John Clarke. Photo from Shutterstock. As…
Because Drylanders Have Short Memories
The Conservative leader yesterday confirmed that, if he becomes prime minister, a priority will be to resuscitate the Northern Gateway pipeline bringing bitumen to the port of Kitimat on BC’s…
Even Dogs Have More Self-Control
Today, I was going to post about the rabble stalking Justin Trudeau on the campaign trail. However, I became depressed at the prospect of writing about humanity’s dregs. Therefore, because…
Challenge completed
This morning while Mallory was at ski practice I rode the last kilometres of my Great Cycle Challenge. A comfortably paced Gatineau Park loop with a bonus tour out toward…
Challenge completed
This morning while Mallory was at ski practice I rode the last kilometres of my Great Cycle Challenge. A comfortably paced Gatineau Park loop with a bonus tour out toward…
Talking the Protests During #Elxn44 Events on CTV News Channel
Saturday I joined CTV News Channel with Todd van der Hayden for the “True North Politics” panel along with Jamie Ellerton and Marcel Wieder. We talked about the growing number…
Afghanistan may forever be the graveyard of empires
Major General Chris Donahue, commander of the US Army 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, boards a C-17 cargo plane at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan to…
I’ve seen this movie before
Things I hear during every single federal election:• this was the ugliest election ever • this election had the worst turnout ever • this election had the most anger ever•…
Generating Insanity
Paul Krugman writes that there’s an interesting connection between right-wing politics and the peddlers of snake oil: Right-wing extremists, and to some extent even more mainstream conservative media, rely on…
Leaded Gas for Cars Impossible to Buy Globally
After decades of effort by environmentalists leaded gasoline for use in automobiles is impossible to buy anywhere on the planet. Last month Algeria ended sales for leaded gasoline which marked…
Unpublished Ottawa: me and three smarter people on the election
The post Unpublished Ottawa: me and three smarter people on the election first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
The Parked Progressives.
The other day, Chantal Hébert wrote in the Toronto Star that a Trudeau re-election was in the hands of the swing progressives. While it might be a bit early to…
Pinpointing the exact day a Taliban return in Afghanistan became inevitable
The world was shocked earlier this month when the Taliban effortlessly retook control of Afghanistan. Ever since a great deal of ink has been spilled trying to explain why. Some…