Today’s News: Pride parade again
Today was Saskatoon Pride parade day – thousands lined our streets, in spite of the heat, for our first parade since 2019: In photos: Sun shines on Saskatoon’s 2022 Pride…
June 2022
Industry-friendly regulation and laughably ineffective penalties
Through quiet collaboration, wealthy predators in Canada have used economic and political power to sustain unconscionable wireless profits. This will not change because those same vultures control much of Canada’s…
#SKNDPLDR: On Traps
The final official debate of the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign was the first I had the opportunity to see, and I’d hoped that it would result in some meaningful and…
Verna Yiu, fired in April as Alberta Health Services CEO, named University of Alberta provost and academic vice-president
It’s safe bet the United Conservative Party Government wasn’t very happy to learn yesterday that Verna Yiu, controversially fired in April as president and chief executive officer of Alberta Health…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Dianna Chang et al. examine the correlation between social and political factors and COVID-19 spread and mortality. And Crawford Kilian discusses how Canadian…
Mapping US imperialism
Illustration by Carlos Latuff (2007) US imperialism is the greatest threat to life on the planet, a force of ecological devastation and disaster impacting not only human beings, but also…
Grovel, Snivel & Fawn
Grovel, Snivel & Fawn. You might think it’s the name of a law firm, but it’s the art of political sycophancy practiced by our own council.* It’s how our council…
Dangerous and Demented
The morons who occupied Ottawa in February are returning to the capital this summer. David Fraser reports that: Ottawa police say they expect more protests and larger than usual crowds…
The Poison of Poilievre.
It’s a poisoned chalice. It could tear apart the conservative party of Canada. And it would benefit nobody. It would be Pierre Poilievre winning the leadership of the federal conservative…
Today’s News: A tangled ball of string
The LA Times has a major article describing the gang of third-raters, rubes, grifters and gullibles who were trying to overturn Biden’s election. First, it’s all just one big tangled…
The greening of big oil
A headline in The New York Times caused me to do a double-take. The headline read “Shell, the Oil Giant, Will Sell Renewable Energy to Texans.” The term “renewable energy”…
Musical interlude
JJ Wilde – Mercy
Disheartening news
Down To Earth, a weekly newsletter from The Guardian, provided information that should distress every person hoping the climate crisis can be improved, or even moderated…
What’s with Danielle Smith’s nutty, sophomoric campaign to lead Alberta’s UCP? Maybe she’s just bored!
Aided and abetted by a compliant media in love with a good horserace story, it looked for a spell in late 2011 and the spring of 2012 as if Danielle…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Mary Ward and Lucy Carroll report on New South Wales’ warning of the potential for COVID-19 reinfection as the newer Omicron variants become…
Hell No, I Won’t Go!
In the days of my youth, the above was an anthem of resistance, shouted in defiance of the American draft sending young men to fight and to die in Vietnam.…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 17, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘You’re guilty until proven innocent:’ Doctors question Ontario’s automatic licence suspensions for drivers with certain medical conditions #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3tHulrZ – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
To Accomplish Their Ends
John Eastman was at the centre of yesterday’s hearing into the Trump insurrection. Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent write: The committee and witnesses offered a devastating case against Eastman, one…
Conflict with China is the nemesis of climate change action
Members of a Chinese military honour guard march during a welcome ceremony for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine General Peter Pace, at the Ministry of Defense…
On Uniting the Left.
Do you hear it? It is the useless plaint of those who would unite the left-leaning parties to fight the rogues of the right. It is a bit more strident…