Open Source, 3D Printed, Pollution Monitoring
Efforts to monitor pollution levels around the world aren’t new, but what is new is a system created by MIT’s Senseable City Lab that anyone can make. Called Flatburn, the…
2023
Bakhmut and the limits of historical parallels
Photo by the 93rd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Army showing a destroyed Bakhmut during the winter of February 2023. Photo courtesy the Armed Forces of Ukraine/Facebook/Wikimedia Commons. The media…
Document reveals true motives behind Canada’s support for Saudi Arabia
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. Photo courtesy US State Department/Wikimedia Commons. On March 11, online media outlet The Breach published a document that shines a light on Ottawa’s usually…
Conservative Blame Game.
It is difficult these days to have friends or relations who like voting conservative. When I was younger there was a different type of conservative. Some were actually commendable. For…
Today’s News: Saskatchewan has created another cat party
A new provincial political party recently formed here, calling themselves the Sask United Party, which intends to out-conservative the existing Saskatchewan Party. Basically, I think its just another Cat party…
Overtaxed or underserved?
Metro Vancouver and 21 lower mainland municipalities reported total accumulated surpluses of $42 billion in 2021. That was seven times the annual expenses reported in 2021 by the same local…
MLA Dan Williams’ beer guzzling in the Legislature is just another episode in the UCP’s sophomoric obsession with alcohol
Peace River MLA Dan Williams’ distasteful display of beer guzzling on the floor of Alberta’s Legislature last week is just another embarrassing episode in the United Conservative Party’s sophomoric obsession…
Who Do You Trust?
In less than 70 days Albertans will decide whether Daniel Smith’s UCP or Rachel Notley’s NDP will form the next government. Political junkies like me have pretty much made up…
The Father of Modern English
As I promised in a previous post, here’s my almost certainly true and accurate explanation of why the language you’re reading now is the result of one man’s writing back…
This week’s tonic: “Canada’s spies and the hypocrites who adore them – Did China interfere in Canada’s elections? We don’t know. But journalists must not rely on friendly leaks for the truth.”
This week’s tonic by columnist Andrew Mitrovica: “Canada’s spies and the hypocrites who adore them – Did China interfere in Canada’s elections? We don’t know. But journalists must not rely…
Today’s tonic: “20 years after the Iraq War, it’s clear our elites learned no lessons”
Today’s tonic from Taylor C. Noakes is a public historian and independent journalist: “20 years after the Iraq War, it’s clear our elites learned no lessons…Two decades on from the…
what i’m reading: my notorious life by kate manning (madame restell, fictional version, nonfiction to follow)
I read this book last year, and have been recommending it nonstop, so it’s about time to commit it to wmtc. My Notorious Life was an obvious book for me…
The Same Man The Same Danger
Donald Trump is doing it again. He’s summoning the mob. The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump called for protests Saturday in response to what he claimed would be…
What Leadership?
The one thing for sure in Canada these days that we do not waste time recognizing leadership. Leadership is a political ghost. It is something that politicians talk about but…
UCP now wants underwhelming minimum wage report, a typical Jason Kenney production, to be quickly forgotten
I suppose as good place as any to get back in to the swim of blogging is Friday’s release by Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government of the three-year-old report…
I love Saskatchewan
Another Sask. pic.twitter.com/QVNVL5lgeO — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 18, 2023 Does it look like Sask, to Sask folks? Someone in Ottawa says it doesn't at all. Views welcome. pic.twitter.com/lVvP9VstnE —…
Neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau is a Symptom of a Larger Problem
Those of you how have followed the blog for years know that Kevin Goudreau, a neo-Nazi active now for more than 30 years, has been covered on these pages mostly…
Neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau is a Symptom of a Larger Problem
Those of you how have followed the blog for years know that Kevin Goudreau, a neo-Nazi active now for more than 30 years, has been covered on these pages mostly…
Neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau is a Symptom of a Larger Problem
Those of you how have followed the blog for years know that Kevin Goudreau, a neo-Nazi active now for more than 30 years, has been covered on these pages mostly…