Election Follies and Funnies #15: Flip Flop Man
Editing note: I had to delete a couple of the earlier Follies and Funnies posts because something in them was messing up my blog formatting and I am not sufficiently…
2021
Kenney’s $100 Solution
At the end of May Jason Kenney unveiled an aggressive reopening plan that would lead to the best Alberta summer ever and on July 1 he lifted all but a…
50,000 followers can’t be wrong. (Well, actually, they can.)
At some point over this here Labor Day weekend, as I battled an army of gun nuts, I acquired 50,000 followers on the Twitter machine. So, to those of you…
Money for nothing…
IPPs). The utility paid $1,403,000,000 for that power, an average of $95,899 per gigawatt. Meanwhile, BC Hydro sold electricity on trade markets. It realized $42,520 per gigawatt on those sales,…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Economist charts how face mask use helps to slow the spread of COVID generally. And Supriya Dwivedi writes that the Conservative approach…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Jim Stanford writes that the direction of our rebuilding from and after the COVID pandemic is one of the core issues at…
On Politics and Qualifications
Back in July, I wrote an extensive piece advocating for all but removing the party system from our parliament. In other discussions the topic of qualifications and expertise came up…
Looney Candidates
Every election has its share of looney candidates. One such candidate is Cheryl Gallant for the Conservatives. Robin Sears writes: Conservative candidate Cheryl Gallant, is back. This year she launched…
NEW: Re-Build! A New Afrikan Independence Movement Periodical, Special Commemorative Issue, Black August 2021
The Rebuild Collective has a new issue of their newspaper out. You can read it online on their website here! The Rebuild Collective is a New Afrikan Independence Movement Formation…
30-second spot. Female narrator. Quiet soundtrack. Grainy images of bodies being wheeled away.
Here’s the script. “This is the Ruger Mini. It was used to murder 14 women in Montréal. It was used to murder 22 people in Nova Scotia. 36 Canadians. Justin…
Symbols
Politics is about symbols. The Ruger Mini isn’t just a gun – it’s a symbol. It’s a symbol in Canada, more than anywhere else. It’s a serpent that spits death,…
Is there an App for that?
Who was that masked man on the white horse riding to our rescue at Queen’s Park the other day? “Yes,” he said, “There will be vaccine passports in Ontario.” Whether…
Yippee-ki-yay! Kenney Government exempts weekend rodeos from a feeble COVID-19 rule
Friday’s jaw-dropping “Kenney Pennies” announcement may have included a few feeble temporary measures to slow surging COVID-19 infection rates and ease the strain on the fraying health care system, but…
Election Follies and Funnies #14: Today’s Roundup
New Liberal campaign ad: We can’t let Erin O’Toole take Canada backward. Now is the time to move forward. For everyone. pic.twitter.com/LkV3VzNQiM — Liberal Party (@liberal_party) September 4, 2021 #cdnpoli…
The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny leads Alberta independent bookshops’ fiction bestseller list for week ended Aug. 29
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Foot, aim, shoot
@erinotoole could lose the election over a gun that’s owned by about 5,000 Canadians. #cdnpoli #cpc #lpc #ndp — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 5, 2021 The post Foot, aim, shoot…
Saturday Evening Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Doug Cuthand highlights how we can’t afford to let our guard down against the dangers of COVID-19, while Allysha Howse notes that a…
The Day A Con Stooge Exposed Erin O’Toole As A Serial Liar
Erin O'Toole lied to become Con leader, and has been lying ever since like pokey-nosed Pinocchio. He lies about everything, from his vow to destroy the CBC, to his vow…
Canada and the U.S. – A Marriage Made in Hell.
Sorry to be late with this. I’ve had a bout of something or other. It was a heavy duty sickness brought on, perhaps, by secret agents of the Canadian Legion…
The Invasion Of The Idiots
For a while I have been trying to cobble together a post on that virulent breed of anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers that are currently blighting our social and political landscape, While…