And Now, a Word From David Suzuki
One of Canada’s most prominent climate advocates, David Suzuki, doesn’t always see eye to eye with our prime minister. He’s tried but he sees straight through Mr. Trudeau. “When Trudeau…
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Srinivasan’s "The Right to Sex"
“It is absurd to contend that vice, ecstasy, and passion would become impossible if man and woman were concretely peers” (xiii). ~ Simone de Beauvoir Amia Srinivasan’s book rivals Kate…
Saturday Photo: Puget Sound Storm, and My Book
Going into the home stretch with my book Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Oceans. Spent some time yesterday looking for images, and came across this painting by Alfred…
The Big Green Lie
Andrew Nikiforuk writes that we are being sold a Big Green Lie. What is the big lie? Thanks to bright green technologies, we can continuously grow the level of consumption…
Big Win For North Cowichan-Appeal Court Supported Their Decision To Reject Racetrack Expansion
COURT OF APPEAL FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA Citation: North Cowichan (Municipality) v. 1909988 Ontario Limited, 2021 BCCA 414 Date: 20211103 Docket: CA47154 Between: Municipality of North Cowichan Appellant (Respondent) And 1909988…
NC Council’s Rejection Of Racetrack Expansion Unanimously Supported by Appeal Court of BC
Originally published by the Discourse By Jacqueline Ronson North Cowichan wins appeal in motorsport track dispute The B.C. Court of Appeal found that the municipality was reasonable in denying a…
Edmonton author Theresa Shea’s The Shade Tree tops Alberta independent bookshops’ bestseller list for week ended Oct. 31
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Zak Vescera reports on the Moe government’s full awareness that their elimination of public health measures would produce exactly the spike in cases…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates November 2, 2021
If you send the updates to David Gilbert or Russell Maroon Shoatz, please stop as they have been released! Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC,…
Quebec Breaks With Fossil Energy
Quebec has become Canada’s first jurisdiction to sign onto the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance launched at the Glasgow climate summit this week. The alliance members vow to keep fossil…
Up A Tree
It’s not easy leading a party of crazies. Consider the case of Erin O’Toole. Campbell Clark writes: Erin O’Toole is stuck up in a tree, and he can’t get down.…
Savoring Time Together
from Friends of David Gilbert
An Exercise in Hypocrisy
A story in CollingwoodToday is titled, Collingwood residents asked to add to council code of conduct. It suggests the town (aka council) is looking for public input into the always-changing,…
Can Kenney Keep His Cool?
It appears that in the hiatus, waiting for parliament to convene later in the month, the news media have been having some fun. They are doing their best to start…
No one expected Devin Dreeshen to quit Jason Kenney’s cabinet – so what happened between Monday and Friday this week?
Almost no one expected Devin Dreeshen to resign from Jason Kenney’s cabinet Friday morning. The thirtysomething minister of agriculture may have been mired in a messy scandal stemming from allegations…
Musical interlude
Purple Disco Machine feat. Eyelar – Dopamine
BIG CHANGE
Big change is hard though of course big change is just what’s needed. The experts warn and our leaders confirm that we are in the midst of a climate emergency,…
Trudeau’s Lousy Bet.
A report published in the journal Nature Energy predicts that Athabasca bitumen’s days are numbered. By 2036 half the world’s fossil energy reserves could become “stranded.” The bursting “carbon bubble”…
Betcha didn’t know the American government can imprison people with no charge and no trial.
This may be a brief post. My computer has gone quite insane – and I don’t know which repair shop I should go to. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We don’t hear about it,…
Wake up Sheeple! How covid conspiracists miss the biggest ‘conspiracy’ of all.
What strikes me the most about the claims made by this coalition of covid-conspiracists, including anti-vaccine adherents, is just how close some of them are to understanding what is really…