Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ben Cohen writes about the expert consensus on the need for booster shots and public health measures to slow the spread of…
December 2021
Power Play Behind Council’s Closed Doors
In the recent meeting of the Strategic Initiatives Standing Committee, last Tuesday, one of the issues discussed was the replacement of Deputy Mayor Hull during his unexplained absence, as well…
Simply Monstrous
As parents, almost all of us want the best for our kids and would do anything to protect them from harm. In the following news report, you will meet a…
Trumpism Is Here To Stay
If you were hoping that Donald Trump would go gently into that good night, take a look at a column written by Ron Filipkowski in The Washington Post: Not quite…
BC NDP donor reluctance
People professing to be former BC NDP supporters say they stopped financial contributions and/or resigned after disagreeing with policies imposed by party leaders. I trust many of these statements are…
Indicting Justin Trudeau.
Let’s make it clear from the beginning, as a liberal, I feel betrayed by prime minister Justin Trudeau. From the first time I met the newly-minted member of parliament in…
Why the UCP won’t use Bill 81’s nomination-stacking provisions to mess with the NDP
There’s been some online chatter since the passage of Bill 81 about the possibility the United Conservative Party might use the Election Statutes Amendment Act, 2021, to seed the NDP…
Saturday Photo: Countdown to Christmas Means an Afternoon Making Sil
This year I didn’t have quite as many, but I was finally able to buy salt herring with which to make sil, the Swedish pickled fish delight. My hands smell…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bruce Arthur warns that the worst of the COVID pandemic may be just around the corner as the far more transmissible Omicron variant…
The Best Of Covid Karma
No words needed from me here. And my personal favourite: Recommend this Post
"They Said." We Chose Not to Listen.
There’ll be more severe weather events, they said. There’ll be more hurricanes, they said. There’ll be more tornadoes, they said. There’ll be more drought, they said. There’ll be more flooding,…
More Good News, In a Way
She may be battered and bloody but the Coquihalla highway, the main connector that links the Lower Mainland with the rest of British Columbia, may soon be back in business,…
Manchin And the Filibuster
Greg Sargeant writes that Joe Manchin is putting democracy in danger: Manchin knows the filibuster is rendering the Senate dysfunctional. And Manchin spent many months trying to build GOP support…
Regg Cohn Cries ‘Wolf.’
Toronto Star opinion writer Martin Regg Cohn might be a Ford fan. He tells us that he believes Ontario premier Doug Ford has found a path to truth, justice and…
State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny leads Alberta independent bookshops’ bestseller list
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Musical interlude
Dallerium feat. Olive – How Do I Sleep Now
Quebec’s Bill 21 Has It All Wrong
I am writing this, not because Quebec’s “An Act respecting the laicity of the State”, commonly referred to as Bill 21, goes against Canadian values and violates the Canadian Charter…
The Nazi world of western journalism.
I've often said that our news media are liars. I had many years of close contact with that. Reporters who tried to be honest were fired, and that's been going…
The Nazi world of western journalism.
I’ve often said that our news media are liars. I had many years of close contact with that. Reporters who tried to be honest were fired, and that’s been going…
Omicron is here, and Canada needs to revamp its rapid testing strategy now
Thus far, it is fair to say that Canada’s strategy around rapid testing has been focused on preserving capitalist interests, while workers’ interests have been cast aside. While Canada is…