The Misogynist Bully Files for Deputy Mayor
Councillor Bob “Lapdog” Madigan — council’s most notable bully and misogynist — filed his papers for deputy mayor, a position for which he is supremely unqualified. Well, to be fair,…
2022
The Bill Has Come Due
Boris Johnson has resigned. Jonathan Freedland writes that there is a symmetry to his rise and fall: Lies and a brazen contempt for the rules powered his rise; lies and…
In memoriam: John W. Warnock
Jack Warnock at home in Victoria, BC. Photo supplied by William Carroll. Last month we lost a brilliant activist-scholar. John W. Warnock passed away on May 27, after a long…
Golf Courses: Greens to Greens
Golf courses seem to be in competition with our need to save the planet and make better food choices. What are your thoughts on the issue? The post Golf Courses:…
Brown-Out for Brown.
From the first meeting with Patrick Brown some 15 years ago, I did not like him. He was a sallow-complexioned little man with a bad haircut. He wanted to shake…
Another day on the campaign trail: Travis Toews woos building trades unions and jumps on the anti-vaxx bandwagon
Probably more than a few politically alert Albertans choked on their post-prandial drinks last night when they noticed a tweet from the Building Trades of Alberta mentioning that Travis Toews…
Walking on the funny side
First, the latest from Jolly Old England: Imagine the Titanic refusing to admit that the iceberg won. — Kathleen Donohoe (@KathleenDonohoe) July 6, 2022 The commentary is heavily implying that…
Good choices – bad choices
Faced with energy market disruption, the European Union is proceeding with REPowerEU, a plan for conservation and production of clean energy. The EU knows that conservation is the cheapest, safest…
Review: The Twittering Machine
There is practically an entire industry devoted to churning out think-pieces, studies, books, and articles expressing concern about the impacts of social media and the broader spectrum of information technology…
Review: The Twittering Machine
There is practically an entire industry devoted to churning out think-pieces, studies, books, and articles expressing concern about the impacts of social media and the broader spectrum of information technology…
Is This the Final Showdown?
Sorry Developments on the climate crisis have not been encouraging. Greenhouse gas emissions that are supposed to be plunging are heading in the wrong direction. Chris Hedges put it this…
The CBC: Exit, Stage Right?
Can someone tell me what’s happened to the CBC? The post The CBC: Exit, Stage Right? first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Chas Danner writes about the arrival of the BA.5 COVID-19 surge in the U.S. Nora Loreto writes about the thousands of Canadians who…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 6 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: City apologizes, seeks to rectify job loss after ‘clean-shave’ policy under fire by Sikh advocacy group #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3updavu – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…
It’s A Great Time To Be Bad People
A friend of mine sent me this, and it is spot-on and self-explanatory. Recommend this Post
My latest: the Tories disqualify themselves
“Governments defeat themselves,” said my boss Jean Chretien, and we all nodded. Pause. “But nobody is as good at defeating themselves as the Tories!” And we all laughed. Because it’s…
Nowhere Near
The Conservative Party has kicked Patrick Brown out of its leadership race. The Canadian Press reports that: The campaign for Patrick Brown said it was consulting its legal team after…
so many left behind: the ever-widening digital divide
Last year, while attempting to get a parking pass during our vacation — without a phone, my phone having been fried by an update — I got caught in a…
Ottawa must be honest with Canadians about troops in Ukraine
The NATO Enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group conducts an exercise in the Camp Ādaži training area in Latvia as part of Operation Reassurance, September 1, 2019. Photo by Corporal Djalma…