More Misogyny at Council
At Monday night’s council (Jan. 31), there was yet one more example of the misogyny male members of council exhibit towards their female peers. And, as you might have expected,…
February 2022
Yet Another Perspective
H/t Caryma Sa’d My friend Steve sent me the following, his thoughts on the trucker protest, a protest he, like countless others, is fed up with. With his permission, I…
Highly Scientific Poll™️ on O’Toole: vote now, vote often!
@erinotoole will: — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 2, 2022 The post Highly Scientific Poll™️ on O’Toole: vote now, vote often! first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
Not A Governing Party
Erin O’Toole has no good options. Althia Raj writes: No matter what happens tomorrow — whether Conservative MPs show Erin O’Toole the door or keep him as leader — the…
The Climate Change Deniers are Done
Climate change deniers have clearly set back human progress and delayed us in reducing emissions, obviously that’s no good. What is good is that they barely exist anymore. The science…
#FreezeGoFundMe #NoGasNoProtest
Stop the protest: #NoGasNoProtest. The post #FreezeGoFundMe #NoGasNoProtest first appeared on Excited Delirium.
A last word on trucks.
It was a long time ago when my son was learning to talk. He talked earlier than many little boys. He talked loudly. Yet he did not start with Momma…
Convoys, COVID and Conservative discord dominate Jason Kenney’s return from Washington governors’ clambake
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, back from an ill-timed and seemingly mostly fruitless trip to Washington D.C., pleaded for federal Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole’s political life yesterday at a typical…
How SUVs came to be a massive climate problem
The world’s SUV fleet is growing rapidly and the segment alone account for more emissions growth since 2010 than aviation, shipping, or heavy industry. Image by Artie61/Blendswap. Sport utility vehicles…
First Coyne, Now Ibbitson. Warnings of a Party Committing Suicide.
Like Andrew Coyne, John Ibbitson is quaking with fear that his darling Tories are doing themselves in. By forcing a vote of confidence in his leadership, dissident Conservative MPs have…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Puzzled cats.
A Lost World.
The U.S. wants a war with China. Canada would join in. The rest of the world, almost all of it, would be destroyed. When the U.S. developed the nuclear bomb…
A Real Trucker’s Perspective
It would seem that real truckers do their jobs, unlike the poseurs still in Ottawa. Recommend this Post
An untapped energy source
Humans need stable energy supplies that do not harm the Earth and an underutilized source lies beneath our feet. Geothermal is clean, limitless, predictable, and almost carbon free. But geothermal…
A Big Blue Groundhogs Day
It’s been quite the 24 hours in #cdnpoli, but not for the reason why we expected at the start of yesterday. With a move to try to give Conservative Leader…
A Lost World.
The U.S. wants a war with China. Canada would join in. The rest of the world, almost all of it, would be destroyed. When the U.S. developed the nuclear bomb…
Coyne: Ditching O’Toole Won’t Cure What Ails the CPC
Andrew Coyne isn’t riding to the defence of Erin O’Toole but he says it’ll take a lot more than a new leader to fix the rot inside the Conservative Party.…
Will Erin O’Toole Survive The Con Revolt?
It was Parliament's first day back after a long break, and Erin O'Toole seemed particularly agitated. Waving his arms around, huffing and puffing, and demanding that Justin Trudeau meet with…
O’Toole Grovels.
I feel deeply embarrassed for this man. No one should ever debase themselves as he is. Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole told MPs Tuesday he was open to changing his party’s…
Come protest me, Karen Konvoy
The truckers’ Omnicronvoy came to Ottawa to demand that @JustinTrudeau step down, but it looks like @erinotoole will be stepping down instead. I would therefore ask the truckers to come…