I. Can’t. Even.
The Trudeau government’s use of a hashtag to fight a military invasion now makes sense. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/ZIlIuRB4AR — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 23, 2022 The post I. Can’t. Even. first…
January 2022
Doug Doubles Down.
In Ontario, casino gamblers are allowed to double their blackjack bet on any two cards totaling nine, ten or eleven. This is called a ‘double down.’ Since most Ontario gamblers…
Are The Anti-Vaxxers Trying To Overthrow the Government?
It's been almost three years since hundreds of truckers surrounded Parliament Hill demanding an end to the war on climate change. And Andrew Scheer and Pierre Poilievre went out to…
Too Good to Pass Up. In Ireland, These Three Guys Walk Into a Post Office…
This can’t possibly be true, can it? Gardaí have launched an investigation after two men carried a dead body into an Irish post office in an apparent attempt to claim…
Online fund-raising campaign for rolling truck blockades to protest vaccine mandates linked to right-wing separatist groups
An online fund-raising campaign organized by a person associated with the Maverick Party and other western separatist causes has raised more than $1.6 million in a week to bankroll highway…
failing soldiers
It's strange how nobody has noticed the limpness of Canada's and the U.S. militaries. They have pretty consistently failed since 1950. Canada was 12 years in failures in a corner…
failing soldiers
It’s strange how nobody has noticed the limpness of Canada’s and the U.S. militaries. They have pretty consistently failed since 1950. Canada was 12 years in failures in a corner…
Saturday Photo: Fumée de mer, or Freezing Fog
Awfully cold here. The St. Lawrence is warmer than the air, and is in effect steaming. But once the mist rises it freezes leaving ice-encrusted bushes and trees and magical…
Trudeau’s Venezuela policy has failed. It’s time to reset relations
Opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim Venezuelan President Juan Guaidó speaks during a citizen assembly at a square in Caracas. Photo from Twitter. Nearly three years ago, on January 23, 2019,…
It’s January and Big Sur is Ablaze
This is supposed to be the wet season on the Pacific coast, doubly so this year thanks to La Nina. This is the season of floods and mudslides. This is…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Katharine Wu writes that contrary to the continued attempt by right-wing talking heads to equate mass viral transmission with immunity, we can’t assume…
Authoritarian Alberta
Taylor Lambert illustrates how Jason Kenney deals with his enemies: When Jesse Drwiega won the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Award for Performing and Visual Arts in 2020, he was thrilled. The…
The hidden origin of the escalating Ukraine-Russia conflict
A rally at Kiev’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) before the massacre of almost 50 protesters, February 20, 2014. Photo by Mykola Vasylechko/Wikimedia Commons. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is now in its…
National Post Letter
The old poli sci major in me could not allow John Ivison’s column to stand. Please see the letters section in today’s National Post for my response to the argument…
National Post Letter
The old poli sci major in me could not allow John Ivison’s column to stand. Please see the letters section in today’s National Post for my response to the argument…
Time running out for Guilbeault.
We are nearing the 100-day mark for Canada’s environmental superstar Steven Guilbeault. You remember. The Quebec MP was a byproduct of the October election last year. He had lots of…
Plague Update: No Moe Bragging Rights
Apparently the only reason no one in Saskatchewan died of COVID-19 the last couple weeks, was computer error, not reality. Of course Premier Moe was bragging only yesterday about his…
To Paradise by American novelist Hanya Yanagihara tops Independent bookshops’ Alberta fiction bestseller list
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. 16, 2022. The lists are compiled…
Man found with chainsaw in forest reserve won’t be fined: FOI documents
Originally Published By https://sixmountains.ca Municipality says illegal cutting had not yet begun By Larry Pynn A man who planned to remove wood on Mount Prevost — in violation of municipal…
if Townes can’t break your heart, nothing can – because you are a goddamned robot
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