Saturday Photo: Happy Thanksgiving, Despite Everything
This Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. The statutory holiday is Monday but we’ve always celebrated whenever it’s convenient for friends and family to get together. At times we have had big potluck…
2021
Big Tent, Little Tent Tories?
You often hear the conservative and liberal parties referred to as big-tent parties. We would therefore assume, in contrast, that the greens, new democrats and peoples’ party are just little…
North Cowichan council approves biodiversity report, leaving Mayor isolated
North Cowichan council approved a staff report Thursday aimed at producing a Biodiversity Protection Policy, with only Mayor Al Siebring speaking against the idea due to the ongoing cost…
Musical interlude
Raye & Rudimental – Regardless
They’re Banging That War Drum Again
To hear them tell it, China is picking a fight with Taiwan, sending an armada of bombers and fighters into Taiwanese air space. By “them” I mean the hawks in…
A House Divided
There have been a number of American pundits predicting that the Republicans will retake control of the Senate next year and add the House and the presidency in 2024 in…
What is Council Trying to Hide?
In an article in CollingwoodToday titled 18 simple rules? Council receives draft of new Code of Conduct, we learn that council is looking to update and revise its current Code…
The View From Olympus
As I tried to suggest in my post the other day, rich people really are different from us, and people like Justin Trudeau, part of that rarified group, have no…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Thomas Saunders discusses how COVID-19 transmission through schools is resulting in effectively a separate epidemic among children and parents. Kathy Eagar offers a…
My take on “Unnecessary Election 2021”: Why Trudeau won, why O’Toole and Singh lost, and why Paul did so badly…
Justin Trudeau with family on election night Sept 20 20201 – Christinne Muschi/Reuters] I’m late to the game with this analysis of the recently completed Canadian federal election, so my…
Just How Dumb?
Eugene Robinson asks an important question: How dumb can a nation get and still survive? In the United States these days, dumb is everywhere: Our elected representatives in the U.S.…
At War with Michigan.
The ongoing war with the State of Michigan is heating up. Canada’s federal government has now invoked a 1977 treaty that supposedly says that Canada can destroy the fresh water…
Vote NO to ‘useless equalization referendum’ to #RejectKenney? Sounds like a plan to lots of Albertans!
It is fairly bizarre, now that you mention it, that Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is plowing ahead with his constitutionally meaningless anti-equalization referendum at a moment he’s so messed up…
The Rot of Democracies – Elliot Cohen
Liberal democracy, as widely observed, is in retreat around the world. How much more can it take before it’s in rout? Tribalism is sweeping America. We have in our own…
Choose Yer Poison – Again. America Stress Tested.
Kudos to Joe Biden. He’s conducted something of a “stress test” for America, a precautionary step Canada’s government ought to have taken a long time ago. On Thursday, the White…
Up in Smoke. 300 Sq. Mi. of Amazon Rainforest Lost Every Day.
The Amazon rainforest is disappearing at what should be an alarming rate. 312 sq. mi. or 808 sq. kms. every day. Over the past 30 years humans have destroyed a…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Carrie Tait reports on the spate of readmissions of COVID-19 patients to Alberta hospitals, while Zak Vescera points out the large number…
Council Considers Possibly Thinking About Maybe Doing Something Important Sometime in the Future
We’re almost two years into an ongoing pandemic, yet all the lessons learned in jurisdictions worldwide about vaccinations and public safety have apparently simply drifted past our inept and gormless…
My latest: shove your apology, Trudeau
Sorry, but Justin Trudeau likes apologies. He does. He makes them all the time. Everyone has noticed. The BBC even published a story about The Apologist-In-Chief, asking: “Does Justin Trudeau…
Head for the Hills, Head for the Hollers. That’s One Solution to America’s Irreparable Divide.
They’re Trump people and they’re staging a mini-exodus from blue to red states. Across North America, the pandemic has caused people to rethink where they live. The flight from city…