Don’t Blame the Liberals
Risible rightwing piffle still circulates online about who is responsible for the rising costs of fuel and food. Conservatives and libertarians love to blame the Liberals, but that’s self-serving claptrap…
2022
Saturday Photo: What to Do on a Sunny But Cold Saturday
SKATE! The photo was taken several years ago, but I still like it. Saw several kids out this morning trying their skates out. I hear our youngest grandkid just graduated…
"at your library" in the north island eagle: goodbye for now, see you at the library
Goodbye for Now… See You at the Library This is my final At Your Library column. I’m grateful to Kathy O’Reilly, indefatigable publisher of The Eagle, for giving me this…
"at your library" in the north island eagle: we heart your small or home-based business
Small or Home-Based Business? Your Library Can Help So many people in our North Island communities have been opening new businesses lately! It seems like every edition of The Eagle…
"at your library" in the north island eagle: build early literacy with storytimes
Build Early Literacy with Storytimes – Every Day in Port Hardy In a year when we desperately needed good news, the Port Hardy branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library…
Juris My Diction Crap
This Matrix clip has been at the front of my mind since I started looking into how to get a booster for my youngest, who’s 17, because I question if…
Yet More Disrespect From Madigan
NB: This is a repost from Dec. 9, 2021. See below. Last year, I wrote about how Councillor Bob “Lapdog” Madigan had behaved in a churlish, misogynistic manner towards female…
Come Back in May.
It was good for a laugh. I was checking some political polls to find out what Ontario premier Doug Ford was reading. He seems to lack any understanding of polling.…
Don’t worry about mandatory vaccinations coming to Alberta – if they do, we’ll call them something different
“Alberta’s Legislature removed the power of mandatory vaccination from the Public Health Act last year and will not revisit that decision, period,” Premier Jason Kenney tweeted yesterday. Just in case…
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig tops Independent bookshops’ Alberta Fiction Bestseller List for week ended Jan. 2
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022. The lists are compiled…
It’s a LondOntLife#4 looks good so far
Finally, we are finished the layout for the book collecting cartoons from 2020. It has been that long. And just in time to start the book for 2021. Now, find…
It’s a LondOntLife#4 looks good so far
Finally, we are finished the layout for the book collecting cartoons from 2020. It has been that long. And just in time to start the book for 2021. Now, find…
It’s a LondOntLife#4 looks good so far
Finally, we are finished the layout for the book collecting cartoons from 2020. It has been that long. And just in time to start the book for 2021. Now, find…
Contortions of logic and promises
The BC NDP government taxes fossil fuels severely to discourage consumption by citizens. That is an appropriate policy choice but the same government turns around and offers huge public subsidies…
Joe Hits One Out of the Park
President Joe Biden has slammed “capitalism without competition” as raw exploitation and says he’s gunning for the megacorporations that control so much of the global economy. This is not going…
The Day Erin O’Toole Surrendered To The Anti-Vaxxers
For weeks Erin O'Toole has been hiding from Canadians, like a loser chicken in a closet. Too afraid to show his face lest he might be asked why he has…
Musical interlude
Bonobo feat. Jordan Rakei – Shadows
A "Must Have" for the JT Fan Club
For a ridiculously low, low, low price of just $45 (USD) you can have your very own Justin Trudeau bobblehead. The statuary is produced by the legendary National Bobblehead Hall…
My 14 favorite books of 2021. Satisfaction guaranteed.
The year 2021 is one most of us would just as soon forget. That benighted year couldn’t even let Betty White celebrate her 100th. That was cruel. Personally, I found…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Bruce Arthur writes that Doug Ford’s photo ops around empty hospital beds don’t signal any useful accomplishment when they’re not paired with solutions…