Today’s News: Investigations all over
There are three important investigations going on right now — the Mass Casualty Commission (AKA the Portapique massacre) in Nova Scotia, the Jan 6 Committee hearings in Washington, and the…
June 2022
In Profit We Trust.
Welcome to the Empire Club of Canada—over 100 years of pandering to profit. It is where Canada’s finance ministers go to seek approval and deny progress. It is where the…
Jason Kenney’s cabinet shuffle, clearly necessary, nevertheless gets delivered in a slippery way
As is typical of the man, Jason Kenney’s cabinet shuffle yesterday, while clearly necessary, was delivered in a slippery manner. Justice Minister Tyler Shandro (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). Leastways, the usual…
National Indigenous Peoples Day
June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day – here are some tweets that I liked about this important day. Here is Trudeau;s speech: “such strength, such resilience” Miigwich PM @JustinTrudeau…
The common good is becoming less common
A book by Professor Robert Reich, one of the most prominent voices among progressives, examines the ongoing decline of the common good, which he defines as being about “what we…
One more nail in the coffin of Trudeau’s Latin American strategy
Gustavo Petro, the leftist former mayor of Bogota, was declared the winner of Colombia’s presidential election on June 19, 2022. Photo from Facebook. Gustavo Petro’s election victory in Colombia is…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 21, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Man charged after woman set on fire on Toronto bus in hate-motivated attack, police say #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3tSoBLT – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
Stuart Mackinnon and Kishone Roy: Livability means housing and parks aren’t separate issues — they are forever linked
Opinion:. For those who live in apartments, parks are more than just a backyard, they are part of their home here in Vancouver and increased density means we need to…
Stuart Mackinnon and Kishone Roy: Livability means housing and parks aren’t separate issues — they are forever linked
Opinion:. For those who live in apartments, parks are more than just a backyard, they are part of their home here in Vancouver and increased density means we need to…
Stuart Mackinnon and Kishone Roy: Livability means housing and parks aren’t separate issues — they are forever linked
Opinion:. For those who live in apartments, parks are more than just a backyard, they are part of their home here in Vancouver and increased density means we need to…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Danielle Hitch, Aryati Yashadhana and Evelyne de Leeuw write that long COVID is following the path of acute COVID-19 in having a…
NIPD
#NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay is important to my family, because it was first proclaimed by my daughter‘s godfather, the departed and much-missed GG Romeo Leblanc. pic.twitter.com/5qIsCqkvMd — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 21, 2022
Get Paid to Report Bike Lane Blockers
Austin spent millions on improving their infrastructure and now they are looking to citizens to enforce the rules of using that infrastructure. Anybody who reports a vehicle blocking a bicycle…
Caveat Emptor
While the House Select Committee is laying bare Donald Trump’s attempted coup, Republicans are openly advocating violence. Consider what is happening in Missouri. Eric Greitens is a Republican who is…
The Time Is Out Of Joint
I spend a fair bit of time in this blog discussing my aversion to the United States. Widely populated by benighted souls, it is a country I now shun and…
Here Comes Highway 413.
Is this what Ontario voted for? Over the next four years, the Ford government is going to spend more than a billion dollars getting things ready to start building Highway…
Today’s News: Updates
A batch of updates tonight – here we go Juneteenth: Drew Litton, The Colorado Sun #juneteenth2022 pic.twitter.com/EHo0SjG7v7 — Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) June 19, 2022 Steve Sack, The Minneapolis…
Going Dark. Chris Hedges and the Road to Hell.
It has been some time since Chris Hedges was a happy camper. That said, he outdid himself in his latest column, The Triumph of Death, in which the opening paragraph…
can you give a few dollars to help a giver in need?
From a wmtc party: clockwise: P, Chelsea,Jericho, Diego, Kim, Tala. Some of you may recognize an occasional wmtc commenter “Dharma Seeker”. Dharma Seeker — whose name is Kim — is…