A leader with no teeth?
Watching a recording of an interview with Ontario liberal leader Steven Del Duca the other day, it seemed that he talks without showing any teeth. Never having read of any…
2021
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn returns to the top of Alberta’s independent booksellers’ fiction bestseller list for week ended May 9
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, May 9, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Interview with Palestine Youth Movement and Palestine Resolution 2021
People gathered in solidarity with Palestine for the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba on May 15, 2021, outside of the Israeli Consulate in Toronto. Photo by Ryan Deshpande. Today marks…
Long a boring commodity, B.C. lumber prices soar to stratospheric highs
Prices have more than tripled in the last year, hitting US$1,330 per 1,000 board feet By Derrick Penner May 10, 2021 The combination of a boom in U.S. housing…
Yet More Secrecy From Council
A “special” council meeting has been called for May 19. Now, when this council says ‘special” they almost always mean they scurry behind closed doors to avoid public scrutiny of…
Bernie Sanders – Enough Already
US Senator Bernie Sanders writes it’s time for America (and, by implication, Canada) to stop being an apologist for Benjamin Netanyahu. No one is arguing that Israel, or any government,…
The Other Pandemic – Moral Decay.
I spotted this on social media the other day: “Fascinated by how the behaviour of people who took 3 slices of pizza at the pizza party because they thought it…
Judge gives green light to ‘anti-Alberta energy campaigns’ inquiry – a ruling the UCP may come to regret
At the end of a terrible week, there was a smidgen of solace for Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party. Yesterday, Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Karen Horner…
Cowichan Valley’s Six Mountains Forest: War Or Peace
Originally published by ‘Where Do We Stand.‘ Photo Credit: CHRIS ISTACE The Choice is Ours History shows that how we treat people mirrors how we treat nature. Most nations have…
Saturday Photo: The Animals of My Neighborhood…and Jokes
When this Covid business started and I was effectively cut off from our grandchildlren, I looked around for ways to keep in contact with them. Sending letters was a partial…
We lost an exceptional friend when we lost Roland Morgan
We lost an exceptional friend when we lost Roland, with or without his ‘W.’ An original character imported from Britain to spice up our lives in the Cowichan Valley. He…
Coming Apart
Things are falling apart for Jason Kenney. David Climenhaga writes: Todd Loewen, United Conservative Party MLA for the northwestern Alberta riding of Central Peace-Notley, broke party ranks Thursday morning and…
Musings on Montaigne’s Cannibals
Montaigne’s essay On Cannibals contributed at least some of the content and ideas in Shakespeare’s late play, The Tempest. A speech by the recently-shipwrecked counsellor Gonzalo in Act 2, Sc.1…
Politicizing the Pandemic.
There is nothing political about the Coronavirus and the pandemic. Each country, in its own manner, has had to deal with the spread of the virus, the sickness and the…
Musical interlude
Deftones – This Link Is Dead
rtod: kids are jumping out of windows of burning buildings, so we board up the windows instead of putting out the fire
Revolutionary thought of the day: What I’m here to talk about is how our whole approach since day one has been like this: Kids are jumping out the windows of…
Sex and the soldier.
There was a gritty movie made years ago about Balkan partisans during the Second World War. These partisans were fighters who attacked German patrols and were hunted in turn by…
Justin Trudeau and the Real Losers of the Fake WEgate Scandal
It was without a doubt the ugliest and most sordid political spectacle I have ever witnessed. The sight of the sleazy Cons, and their slimy stooge media, attacking Justin Trudeau…
When You’re Doug Ford and Kelly McParland Turns On You, You Might Be in Trouble
Fatuous. There’s a ring to that word at least when Kelly McParland is using it. For all-time most fatuous remarks by a serving politician, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s explanation for…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Smart compares Canada’s fiscal response to the COVID crisis to the reaction to previous recessions – finding that benefits for people are…