It’s Utterly Electrifying. EVs Arrive at Critical Mass.
It’s a terrible week to add to Jason Kenney’s woes but the days of internal combustion are growing shorter with each passing year. Six years ago the Swiss bank, UBS,…
2021
The Con Clown Jason Kenney Is Humiliated. Again
Jason Kenney wanted to be known as the father of the new Alberta, or Albertonia. The Tarry Daddy of Big Oil. But it's all gone horribly wrong. His mismanagement of…
Hunting for Bad Legislation
Having worked on Parliament Hill for close to a decade, I have to admit that there are certain things that always seem to pique my interest in our political world.…
Quebec racism is no surprise.
When people grow up with incipient racism, it is no surprise that they slip into it occasionally. This happened the other week when a news release from Bloc Québécois leader…
Julie, Julie, Julie
Julie Payette has resigned. The warning signs were there from the beginning. Susan Delacourt writes: It took very few days after Payette’s announced appointment for some big red flags to…
#Petrostate of the Province
You know you live in a #petrostate when local city council exec votes to restrict fossil fuel sponsorship and 1) the Premier threatens the City’s budget and 2) the official…
On paper, he’s great
Politicians like John Horgan understand the value of scholarly prescriptions for leadership but their actions are tempered by a preference for secrecy and political expediency and the need to reward…
NDP leads UCP in 2020 fund-raising totals, significantly in the fourth quarter and marginally over the year
Alberta’s Opposition New Democratic Party noticeably out-raised the United Conservative Party in the fourth quarter of 2020, $2.3 million to $1.9 million, according to figures released yesterday by Elections Alberta.…
Gee, I wonder who actually wrote this letter?
“We all experience things differently.” These people nauseate me.
Julie, er, Your Excellency, Don’t Let the Door Hit Your Ass On Your Way Out
Governor General Julie Payette and her muscle, Assunta di Lorenzo, are toast. Both have resigned following the release of a scathing report of workplace culture at Rideau Hall. Julie and…
Oh, Please. Please, Please, Please. Do It. Go For It.
Before Donald Trump departed Andrews Air Force base yesterday, he told the relatively small gathering of well-wishers that he would be back “in some form.” That cryptic line sparked a…
“Insurgent Supremacists” and the evolution of Trumpism – Matthew N. Lyons
Originally published on the Three Way Fight blog on January 21, 2021. Introduction—An analysis for this moment I finished the manuscript of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to…
Good riddance
Gov.-Gen. Julie Payette and her secretary, Assunta di Lorenzo, are resigning after an outside workplace review of Rideau Hall found that the pair presided over a toxic work environment.
Sharing My Desktop PC Wallpaper Collections
When I’m not mountain biking or cycling, mapping trails or ranting about political or social issues I may be taking photographs. The last few years I have been using the…
One Day. So Many Smiles.
It seemed like the world was smiling yesterday as the United States shed one president and greeted another. No one can tell how president Biden will fare in dealing with…
An Honourable Mayor?
Mayor Brian Saunderson has announced he is running for nomination to the provincial Progressive Conservative party in our riding to be able to stand as the candidate for MPP. According …
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jim Stanford explores how a just transition plan can ensure that workers have new opportunities in the midst of a needed shift…
The Departure of Donald Trump and the Return of Hope
It was the photo I had been dreaming about for four long years. Donald Trump leaving the White House for the last time. After all those years, and all those…
Stay Sane in Quarantine by Going Outside and Being Positive
Many of us need to stay inside as much as possible to reduce the spread of COVID this winter, and with less sun and no end in sight of the…
The lies from the tar sands.
It was a brief remark our Canadian ambassador to Washington made on Global Television’s West Block show last Sunday. I was trying to remember where I had heard it before.…