Small nuclear reactors don’t make any more economic sense now than they did back in the summer of 2020 when Alberta Premier Jason Kenney took to the Internet to tout…
We get letters: would it kill them to learn how to spell? pic.twitter.com/x4RoXP80Ga — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 9, 2022 The post We get letters: spelling optional first appeared on…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – John Michael McGrath writes that the Omicron wave of COVID may manage to be the most disruptive year, while Alex Press discusses how…
It’s an ancient proverb. Those whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad. It’s commonly attributed to Euripedes in the 4th century BC. I think most observers, at least…
Risible rightwing piffle still circulates online about who is responsible for the rising costs of fuel and food. Conservatives and libertarians love to blame the Liberals, but that’s self-serving claptrap…
SKATE! The photo was taken several years ago, but I still like it. Saw several kids out this morning trying their skates out. I hear our youngest grandkid just graduated…
Goodbye for Now… See You at the Library This is my final At Your Library column. I’m grateful to Kathy O’Reilly, indefatigable publisher of The Eagle, for giving me this…
Small or Home-Based Business? Your Library Can Help So many people in our North Island communities have been opening new businesses lately! It seems like every edition of The Eagle…
Build Early Literacy with Storytimes – Every Day in Port Hardy In a year when we desperately needed good news, the Port Hardy branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library…
This Matrix clip has been at the front of my mind since I started looking into how to get a booster for my youngest, who’s 17, because I question if…
NB: This is a repost from Dec. 9, 2021. See below. Last year, I wrote about how Councillor Bob “Lapdog” Madigan had behaved in a churlish, misogynistic manner towards female…
It was good for a laugh. I was checking some political polls to find out what Ontario premier Doug Ford was reading. He seems to lack any understanding of polling.…
“Alberta’s Legislature removed the power of mandatory vaccination from the Public Health Act last year and will not revisit that decision, period,” Premier Jason Kenney tweeted yesterday. Just in case…
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022. The lists are compiled…
Finally, we are finished the layout for the book collecting cartoons from 2020. It has been that long. And just in time to start the book for 2021. Now, find…
Finally, we are finished the layout for the book collecting cartoons from 2020. It has been that long. And just in time to start the book for 2021. Now, find…
Finally, we are finished the layout for the book collecting cartoons from 2020. It has been that long. And just in time to start the book for 2021. Now, find…
The BC NDP government taxes fossil fuels severely to discourage consumption by citizens. That is an appropriate policy choice but the same government turns around and offers huge public subsidies…
President Joe Biden has slammed “capitalism without competition” as raw exploitation and says he’s gunning for the megacorporations that control so much of the global economy. This is not going…
For weeks Erin O'Toole has been hiding from Canadians, like a loser chicken in a closet. Too afraid to show his face lest he might be asked why he has…
