The Excellent Humiliation of the Con Monster Jason Kenney
Ever since he became their Great Leader, Jason Kenney has been treated like a god by many Albertans. As long as he attacked Justin Trudeau, demonized the carbon tax, and…
2021
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Robyn Urback writes that the second wave of COVID-19 can be traced largely to people – including far too many political leaders –…
Time For Some Sober Second Thought
A recent poll shows that about half of all Canadians are ignoring the Covid guidelines telling people to socialize only with those in their own household: A new survey suggests…
About to Be Lanced
Awa Mahdawi writes that she receives nasty comments these days: “Go back home to your third-world country,” a helpful stranger told me on Twitter recently. I get comments like this…
Now is the Time to Increase Accessibility in the Arts
Making an art gallery accessible is more than providing a ramp for people to enter, an accessible art gallery ought to include accessible art. The bare minimum a gallery or…
greetings island: the best e-card site you’ve never heard of
Tl; dr: Greetings Island is the best e-greeting-card site. * * * * I love greeting cards — birthdays, anniversaries, thank yous, “glad you’re my friend”. I used to love…
In the aftermath of Aloha-gate, that report on ‘anti-Alberta energy campaigns’ is likely to be a dud
Before the Aloha–gate travel scandal upset the United Conservative Party’s applecart, Commissioner Steve Allan’s big report on “anti-Alberta energy campaigns” was supposed to be Alberta’s first major political story of…
Has Trump revived fascism in the Republican Party?
I am surprised and disappointed at those Republicans who support Trump to the point of rejecting the will of the American people and even democracy itself. The recent effort to…
The Decarie Report 2021-01-05 22:24:00
This morning (December) was checking through some of the usual, conventional papers that are worth reading only because I can get them free. Today, I was enraptured by the tone…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Playful cats.
The failure is federal
If less than half of one per cent are vaccinated, and places like Ontario are about to run out of vaccine, what does that tell you? It tells you the…
Why isn’t the NDP questioning the largest military procurement in Canadian history?
An artist’s rendering of the new Canadian Surface Combatant. Image courtesy of BAE Systems. The job of the opposition in Parliament is to hold the government accountable, in part by…
UPDATE-1: kumakaia, aloha
Aloha Albertans! Richard here writing to you from sunny Edmonton Honaberta. It’s currently sitting at a pleasant 28.4 degrees (that’s in Fahrenheit). I’ve got the heat turned up though and…
LA Times: Ambulance Crews Told Not to Transport Patients Deemed Unlikely to Survive
Can you imagine what it must feel like going home at the end of your shift with the reality that you had to choose who to leave, abandoned to their…
Bikes from Eh to Zed
A bike What everyone needs. Everyone should have a bike. B bike Be at one with your bike. Be the bike. C bike A homophonic cross reference to bicycle. See…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard warns not to expect the end of the COVID-19 pandemic (however distant that may be) to result in any particular…
Krugman: How the Republican Party Went Feral
Yes, the GOP has gone feral, but much of America has entered a Lord of the Flies fantasy-nightmare that could threaten the very survival of the Union. Like most democratic…
Why These Covid Scofflaws Matter. They’re Almost As Infectious As the Virus Itself.
A lot of Canadian pols got their tits caught in the wringer for taking holidays abroad at Christmas. It was the height of hypocrisy. A couple of these bastards even…
My latest: hope and fear, and why fear is winning
In politics, there are two buttons, really. Hope and fear. When you distill everything down their base elements, that’s really all you’ve got. If you’re the government, you offer more…