One Damn Thing After Another
Southeast British Columbia is a Conservative stronghold. The Tories pretty much have a lock on the Okanagan, Kamloops, Kelowna region – the same area that’s reeling from wildfires and Covid-19.…
August 2021
Houghton Wins Precedent-Setting Lawsuit
Both local media reported that after a lengthy court battle, former Collus CEO Ed Houghton (and former Acting CAO for Collingwood), was awarded costs for his legal expenses during the…
Now For Kenney
Yesterday I wrote about two American governors whose policy decisions regarding the Fourth Wave are idiotic. Today, I turn my attention to Jason Kenney. Alanna Smith writes: Alberta Premier Jason…
Voices with no voice….
Glen Pearson writes in National Newswatch “The days of hope, while we still wish for them, seem somehow to be moving out of reach. We have numerous causes but no…
Voices with no voice….
Glen Pearson writesin National Newswatch “The days of hope, while we still wish for them, seem somehow to be moving out of reach. We have numerous causes but no cause,…
Playing Pandemic Politics.
There was some interesting political posturing this past week in Ontario. New democratic party leader Andrea Horwath came out of semi-retirement to embarrass herself and, in the process, she reminded…
Five Little Indians and Braiding Sweetgrass lead independent bookshops’ bestseller lists for third week
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021. The lists are compiled…
friends and family reuinion road trip: day fourteen: portland to delta, in which we miss a crucial step
Step one: you must use an app We left Portland and drove north uneventfully. As we approached the border, I remembered that we were supposed to use the “ArriveCAN” app…
Climate change tops voters’ priorities … seriously
The most recent Angus Reid Institute poll on Canadians’ priorities and voting intentions had at least one big surprise. That, at least to this observer of the Canadian mind, was…
Musical interlude
BT feat. Emma Hewitt – No Warning Lights (Alpha 9 Remix)
Wildfires Claim Second B.C. Town
Add the resort town of Monte Lake to the conflagration last month that erased the town of Lytton, B.C. On Thursday evening, the White Rock Lake wildfire jumped a highway…
I’m Sorry to Break the News to You but You’re Not Going To Win the Election
I just read the Green Party platform. I came away wondering what these people are smoking. For the last few elections I’ve voted Green, provincially and federally. Now I’m left…
‘Unimaginably catastrophic’: Researchers fear Gulf Stream system could collapse
The Gulf Stream is an ocean current that carries warm water from the Gulf of Mexico into the Atlantic Ocean. Visualizations by Greg Shirah/NASA. While heatwaves, fires, and floods produce…
Would You Buy A Pillow From This Man?
I wouldn’t. And you needn’t watch this entire video to get renewed confirmation that American stupidity is rampant. Recommend this Post
In The Spotlight
There’s one thing about COVID that’s undeniable. It puts stupidity in the spotlight. Eugene Robinson writes: This is the GOP’s pandemic now. Cynical and irresponsible Republican politicians have created an…
Election Breezes.
Don’t you feel those fresh election breezes from the Rock, flowing up the St. Lawrence River, across the Great Lakes, kissing the Prairies and cascading over the Rockies to say…
No surprise: Alberta health minister takes the bait with belligerent response to federal minister’s rebuke
Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro and other United Conservative Party officials reacted with predictable belligerence yesterday to federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu’s letter chiding them for abandoning such public health…
Five Monkeys, and The Art of War:Or, How To Launch A Successful Revolution
Gandhi said, “Cowards can never be moral.” And he was right. Cowards always choose personal comfort over conscience. The question then, is, how to instill courage in the people, at…
The Sociology Of Delusion
Automation is going to eliminate most jobs. That could spell tyranny and neofeudalism, and the birth of a highly stratified society, where the priviledged few live in material comfort, the…