Why The Silence?
Danielle Smith’s Alberta Soverniety Act is an atrocity. Althia Raj asks why are Conservatives across the country keeping their mouths shut? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s new bill gives the province’s…
December 2022
What Lane is That?
Alberta premier Danielle Smith won this week’s prize. That would be the case if we had a prize for the dumbest statement of the week by a provincial premier. It…
A Brief Programming Note
Time for a blogging break. Be back soon. Recommend this Post
The World Cup is over. For me, anyway
There is a silver lining to Canada’s abrupt and rather humbling dismissal from the FIFA World Cup … I won’t have to watch any more soccer. Oh, I might tune…
Tonight’s tonic: “Danielle Smith’s sovereignty act eats at our trust in democracy. Why aren’t Conservatives calling her out?”
Tonight’s tonic: “Danielle Smith’s sovereignty act eats at our trust in democracy. Why aren’t Conservatives calling her out?” http://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2022/12/03/danielle-smiths-sovereignty-act-eats-at-our-trust-in-democracy-why-arent-conservatives-calling-her-out.html #cdnpoli #abpoli #democracy
The Alberta Sovereignty Act: A Pas a Deux With Danielle Smith and Stephen Harper
I’m not going to use the full title of that act – partly because it’s ridiculously long, and like many things out of the UCP, utterly devoid of real meaning.…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Olha Puhach, Benjamin Meyer and Isabella Eckerle examine what we’ve learned about viral shedding from the COVID pandemic so far, while Bhanvi Satija…
Saturday Photo: Sil for Christmas
In recent years I’ve had trouble finding salt herring to make sil, Swedish pickled herring. But this year I hit the jackpot: nice firm, fat herring from Marché Epicure Spent…
My 2016 comedy short film “Tri-Curious” is back on YouTube!
Actors Rob Salerno and Trevor Ketcheson My first short film as a director Tri-Curious is now available for the world to see on YouTube as of December 1, 2022. The…
Ontarians Opine
People are probably getting tired of my monomania regarding the depredations of the Doug Ford government, so this will be my last post on the subject for a while. Indeed,…
Gone Mad
The Globe and Mail editorializes that some of Canada’s premiers have lost their minds: The recent actions of some of Canada’s provincial premiers bring to mind a scene from Woody…
Cutting What Red Tape?
You can always have a laugh when another conservative goes on about their hate for red tape. They are always telling you they are going to cut it. They just…
From the bookmarks – Elon, Matt, Ye, and the gang….
I loved this! Found it on Mastodon, hand-made by @welshpixie@mastodon.art Tonight the world of Twitter waited with bated breath for Musk’s big Hunter Biden reveal. Pffft (a wet sqibb sound)!…
Food supplies threatened by water shortages
With food production threatened in southwest USA, British Columbia should pay more attention to the value and potential of its agricultural resources. The present NDP government is in thrall to…
Jason Kenney, a moderate?
During Jason Kenney’s reign over our province, I never thought of him as a particularly nice man. Actions like de-indexing the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped program from inflation…
Musical interlude
Elderbrook – Beautiful Morning
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Umair Haque discusses why the 2020s are turning into a particularly bleak decade as people are buried under a perpetually larger mountain of…
ASWAUCA – the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act – is turning into a disaster for Danielle Smith and the UCP
With the thoughts that you’ll be thinkin’You could be another Lincolnif you only had a brain.— Scarecrow, The Wizard of Oz OTTAWA Could Danielle Smith have handled introduction of her…
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Legal Tweet of the Day: December 2, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Parti Québécois denied entry to National Assembly after refusing to swear oath to King #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3B5ozUv – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…