Symbols
Politics is about symbols. The Ruger Mini isn’t just a gun – it’s a symbol. It’s a symbol in Canada, more than anywhere else. It’s a serpent that spits death,…
September 2021
Is there an App for that?
Who was that masked man on the white horse riding to our rescue at Queen’s Park the other day? “Yes,” he said, “There will be vaccine passports in Ontario.” Whether…
Yippee-ki-yay! Kenney Government exempts weekend rodeos from a feeble COVID-19 rule
Friday’s jaw-dropping “Kenney Pennies” announcement may have included a few feeble temporary measures to slow surging COVID-19 infection rates and ease the strain on the fraying health care system, but…
Election Follies and Funnies #14: Today’s Roundup
New Liberal campaign ad: We can’t let Erin O’Toole take Canada backward. Now is the time to move forward. For everyone. pic.twitter.com/LkV3VzNQiM — Liberal Party (@liberal_party) September 4, 2021 #cdnpoli…
The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny leads Alberta independent bookshops’ fiction bestseller list for week ended Aug. 29
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. 29, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Foot, aim, shoot
@erinotoole could lose the election over a gun that’s owned by about 5,000 Canadians. #cdnpoli #cpc #lpc #ndp — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 5, 2021 The post Foot, aim, shoot…
Saturday Evening Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Doug Cuthand highlights how we can’t afford to let our guard down against the dangers of COVID-19, while Allysha Howse notes that a…
The Day A Con Stooge Exposed Erin O’Toole As A Serial Liar
Erin O'Toole lied to become Con leader, and has been lying ever since like pokey-nosed Pinocchio. He lies about everything, from his vow to destroy the CBC, to his vow…
Canada and the U.S. – A Marriage Made in Hell.
Sorry to be late with this. I’ve had a bout of something or other. It was a heavy duty sickness brought on, perhaps, by secret agents of the Canadian Legion…
The Invasion Of The Idiots
For a while I have been trying to cobble together a post on that virulent breed of anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers that are currently blighting our social and political landscape, While…
Saturday Photo: Salt Marsh: the Answer to Our Problems?
It looks like I’ll be getting a contract for Against the Seas: Saving Civilizatins from Rising Oceans rather soon, so I thought I’d share another photo from our trip to…
the only lesson to be learned from afghanistan: war is a waste
Veterans for Peace protest, 2016 As the US finally ends its occupation of Afghanistan, watching the media obsess on the specifics of the pullout has brought me no end of…
We Never Learn
Andrew Nikiforuk writes that there are seven lessons that the American withdrawal from Afghanistan should teach us. Here are three of them: 1. Interventionistas by definition do harm. The straight-talking…
Polls Fail Us.
It is a form of self abuse that I often study the polls that are available on-line. These polls cannot and do not always tell us the truth. Remember, they…
Alberta’s ‘Kenney Pennies’ scheme to motivate vaccine-hesitant holdouts earns instant, visceral, near-universal derision
Everybody hates a freeloader. This is a universal law of human nature. Postmedia political columnist Rick Bell and Mr. Kenney not so long ago – things seemed somewhat less amiable…
Musical interlude
PVRIS – St. Patrick
The Evil that is us.
I’ve been bothered for a long time by the behaviour of the west. And bothered that we don’t recognize how evil we are. And, yes, evil means the U.S., Britain…
Inept or worse?
At the legislated deadline, and just before the last holiday weekend of summer 2021, BC Hydro released its financial results for the period April 2020 to March 2021. The utility’s…
My latest: who won the debate?
Erin O’Toole won by not losing. Justin Trudeau won by sounding authentic, for once. Yves-Francois Blanchet won by being himself. Jagmeet Singh lost — by looking lost. That’s this writer’s…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Lynn Giesbrecht talks to Alexander Wong about the Moe government’s refusal to prepare for a fourth wave of COVID-19 that’s been readily obvious…