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…
December 2021
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…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Alejandro Jadad studies the social murder traceable to politicians’ flawed responses to COVID-19 and other known causes of sickness and death, while Tara…
It’s Good News, In a Way
The human population is set to decline – in a few decades. It’s hard not to believe that. On the way, however, we’ll grow and peak at around 9.7 billion…
Legal Tweet of the Day: December 10, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay:Quebec removed a teacher from class over her hijab. MPs are trying to walk a fine line in response via @TorontoStar – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
China in the world
Xi Jinping visits a housing project near Luanda, the capital of Angola, constructed by a Chinese company, November 2010. Photo courtesy Xinhua News Agency. China’s position in the world system…
Utterly Toothless
Given the damning report by the auditor general that the Public Heath Agency of Canada did a profoundly incompetent job of tracking travellers assigned to quarantine hotels earlier this year,…
take a social media human rights challenge: write for rights 2021 #w4r21
Advanced planning is no match for the calendar! Despite my early preparation, December 10 — Human Rights Day — still caught me off-guard. I haven’t reviewed any cases or set…
We Lack The Will
David Suzuki writes that episodes of mass extinction are nothing new: The fossil record indicates five mass extinction episodes have occurred, defined by disappearance of more than 75 per cent…