Dipping Sauce Day
Where do you want to go for Father's Day, the kids asked. Swiss Chalet, I said. Swiss Chalet, they asked, incredulous. Swiss Chalet, I reaffirmed. It's my Father's Day choice!…
June 2023
Alberta is missing the transition window
When Alberta’s Premier, the Hon. Danielle Smith, gave her election victory speech; she made it clear that she believed that she could protect Alberta’s Oil and Gas industry from the…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Andrew Perez highlight how Suncor and other dirty energy giants have poured loads of windfall profits into stock buybacks…
Autistic Pride
Today is Autistic Pride Day. It’s well researched that people with autism are disproportionately 2SLGBTQIA+. A study, from the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders in 2010, studied people who…
Saskatoon Pride Parade: "Showing Our Pride!"
The Saskatoon Pride Parade was this weekend so here are some of the highlights of this positive and happy event — such an inspiring change from all of the challenging…
Bell blames the Bureaucrats.
You would think that once in a while Bell would blame their failures on their own incompetence. This is a company that bought CTV thinking it was just another way…
Shareholder value built on destruction
A whistle blows and another train rumbles through White Rock, headed toward the Roberts Bank coal export dock. This one is carrying thermal coal from Montana, bound for a massive…
Russian liberalism’s false dawn
Russian theatre director Konstantin Bogomolov. Photo by Gavriil Grigorov/TASS. Theatre director Konstantin Bogomolov likes to shock. At the end of May, he was at it again, publishing an article denouncing…
The Québec government’s push to ban lease transfers is an act of class warfare
Maison Drolet. Photo by Dimitriy Kruglyak/Flickr. Last Friday, Québec saw the tabling of the ruling CAQ’s long-awaited Bill 31, which purports to remedy the ongoing housing crisis through various minor…
Truth matters
Fiction and invention are handy tools for politicians. Legacy media often repeats lies with minimal or no fact checking, although perhaps with opposing comments added to suggest balance. That process…
A Laughing Matter
I got laughed at in the grocery store today. That hasn’t happened in a while. Cases of hospitalizations/day are at their lowest since December 2021 right now, which is fantastic,…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Alexander Haro reports on the scientific recognition that 2023 stands to be by far the hottest year in recorded human history (even compared…
Saturday Photo: In Case You Wondered about the Origin of the Word…
The daisies were in bloom last Sunday at Montreal’s Technoparc and along Highway 50 between Montreal and Gatineau. The English name comes from “dægesege, formerly dæges eage, meaning “day’s eye,”…
Some great weekend reading: from weird conservatives to CHOP to moths to Orcas
Here’s some of the good stuff I’ve been reading lately: At Oliver Willis Explains, Willis writes Conservatives Aren’t Like Normal Americans But The Media Won’t Admit That: The Right Is…
The King in his Counting House.
It is classic conservative strategy. The Ontario government has been caught banking $20 billion that they claim is a reserve fund. What they are really doing is telling the public…
Turns out Facebook didn’t censor or ban Alberta’s premier, but Danielle Smith’s complaint raises a legitimate policy question
It should be well known to everyone now that the claim Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was censored or banned by Facebook is nothing more than a tall tale. Premier’s Office…
Musical interlude
Flight Facilities feat. Grosvenor – With You
Review 7: Invasion of Astro Monster – 1965
Godzilla films had already begun to move into the cultural camp mode from the second film, Godzilla Raids Again, and away from the monster-threat-to-Earth and Atomic-bomb-symbol of the first film.…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Scott Dance reports on the scientific recognition that the Earth’s oceans are warming far faster than previously feared, while Sid Perkins discusses the…
Vancouver School Board to consider privatising school field
Well, that didn't take long. And really, not too unexpected. Within months of being elected, the majority ABC/NPA Trustees on the Vancouver School Board are already contemplating hiving off school…