Saturday Photo: Salt Marsh: the Answer to Our Problems?
It looks like I’ll be getting a contract for Against the Seas: Saving Civilizatins from Rising Oceans rather soon, so I thought I’d share another photo from our trip to…
2021
the only lesson to be learned from afghanistan: war is a waste
Veterans for Peace protest, 2016 As the US finally ends its occupation of Afghanistan, watching the media obsess on the specifics of the pullout has brought me no end of…
We Never Learn
Andrew Nikiforuk writes that there are seven lessons that the American withdrawal from Afghanistan should teach us. Here are three of them: 1. Interventionistas by definition do harm. The straight-talking…
Polls Fail Us.
It is a form of self abuse that I often study the polls that are available on-line. These polls cannot and do not always tell us the truth. Remember, they…
Alberta’s ‘Kenney Pennies’ scheme to motivate vaccine-hesitant holdouts earns instant, visceral, near-universal derision
Everybody hates a freeloader. This is a universal law of human nature. Postmedia political columnist Rick Bell and Mr. Kenney not so long ago – things seemed somewhat less amiable…
Musical interlude
PVRIS – St. Patrick
The Evil that is us.
I’ve been bothered for a long time by the behaviour of the west. And bothered that we don’t recognize how evil we are. And, yes, evil means the U.S., Britain…
Inept or worse?
At the legislated deadline, and just before the last holiday weekend of summer 2021, BC Hydro released its financial results for the period April 2020 to March 2021. The utility’s…
My latest: who won the debate?
Erin O’Toole won by not losing. Justin Trudeau won by sounding authentic, for once. Yves-Francois Blanchet won by being himself. Jagmeet Singh lost — by looking lost. That’s this writer’s…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Lynn Giesbrecht talks to Alexander Wong about the Moe government’s refusal to prepare for a fourth wave of COVID-19 that’s been readily obvious…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Jim Stanford writes about the evolution of political and economic thought toward accepting deficits as a readily affordable price of supporting people…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 3, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario doctors urged to be selective about issuing medical exemptions for vaccines via @680NEWS – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Forced Medical Interventions & The Nuremberg Code: Nuremberg Trials Will Come Again
Read this information from Stand For Health Freedom (below) before you form an opinion set in stone. And remember, as Emerson said, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little…
Pure Claptrap
The state of Texas has passed a blatantly unconstitutional law on abortion. And the Supreme Court has refused to do anything about it. The New York Times editorializes: The Texas…
#ELXN44: Tired Con Slogans & Media Madness
Some thoughts on #ELXN44, including questions about slogans like ‘Secure the Future’ that are eerily close to Trump’s ‘Lock Him Up’. The post #ELXN44: Tired Con Slogans & Media Madness…
Green Party members give preliminary approval to bold progressive policies
A supporter holds a sign for the Green Party of Canada in Toronto, September 3, 2019. Photo by Cole Burston. On August 19, four days after the Trudeau government called…
O’Toole Troubles Mother Nature.
It’s a strange platform that the Mr. O’Toole is trying to sell us. He will promise anything to voters but he fails to understand that he is pissing off Mother…
Election Follies and Funnies #13: "He’s got a bolt of lightning up his ass tonight!"
Here’s the link to tonight’s Leaders Debate in translation: https://www.cpac.ca/episode?id=f9809cea-1e07-47cd-a94d-2ddd3e1351db# And here are several of tweets I saw about the debate: Blanchet claims that Parliament was working. (I have a…
The UCP says they aren’t, but here’s why vaccine passports are coming to Alberta
Vaccine passports are coming to Alberta. Not just yet, but they’ll be along soon enough. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). Not because they make sense. Opposition Leader Rachel…
Truth in labeling?
It is interesting that Jonathan Wilkinson’s federal department is called the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and George Heyman’s BC job is Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy.…