Saturday Photo: Sledding as the Winter Ends
Beautiful sunshine today, with temperature below freezing. Things are melting in the sun, nevertheless, and the days of sledding are numbered. Winter is drawing to a close.
2023
Combatting the ruinous greed of the developers
Condo towers in Toronto. Photo courtesy PARTISANS Projects/Flickr. Last November, Gaétan Héroux and I wrote an article for Canadian Dimension on an emerging struggle to prevent the construction of a…
How Long Will It Last?
Jagmeet Singh is not happy with Justin Trudeau. Althia Rag writes: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh had tough words for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week. “It seems like the prime…
Busting the rent control myth
Photo by Kurt Bauschardt/Flickr Rent control is back. Or rather, it never really left. We’ve just started paying attention again. For decades, we were told by policymakers that rent control…
Poilievre: Pees into the Wind.
Like wise writers everywhere, it is great fun to drop the bomb in your last paragraph. Chantel Hébert did it the other day in the Toronto Star. In a story…
Today’s Random Stuff: Cats and Pigs and Politics
Its the weekend, so here we go with some random stuff from the lighter side. BBC News posted an very odd tweet about how the pandemic hadn’t really affected anyone’s…
Rachel Notley vows reinvestment in health and education, hammers UCP record, after accepting riding nomination
Vowing to reinvest in education, make “bold reforms” necessary to fix health care, and put an end to plans to fire the RCMP and gamble with Albertans’ pensions, NDP Leader…
Has the Alberta Legislature noticed what the 5th largest economy is doing?
If Albertans want to understand how economically viable our Natural Gas and Oil sector is, all we need to do is look towards California. California has the largest economy in…
The Challenge of Citizen Engagement
I recently read a good opinion piece in The Meaford Independent, titled, The Challenge of Remaining Informed & Engaged in Municipal Governance in Our Busy Modern World, In it, editor…
Hard To Swallow
While there are many topics of pressing concern to write about these days, I can’t resist a lesser story that in my view underscores corporate greed, writ large. Some may…
A Fatal Disease
Ignorance is a curse. Willful ignorance is a fatal disease. Kevin McCarthy has succumbed to the disease. Dana Milbank writes: Not since the Know-Nothing Party disappeared in the 1850s has…
Note to readers
Reduced activity here will continue for a while. While treating me for a now four-month-old case of Shingles, medics found a heart disorder that needs attention. I’ve been quickly in…
Trans Mountain: A $35+ billion fossil fuel subsidy
“There is a genuine possibility that within the coming century, we will hit temperatures that are deeply incompatible with the continued existence of human life.” Canadian industrialists, the Trudeau government,…
Of Fools and Damn Fools.
Common sense tells us that conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has gone much too far. To accuse the prime minister of colluding with a foreign government, to win the 2019 election…
Musical interlude
CHVRCHES – Final Girl
Object Removal with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023 – The De-urbanization of a Pond
Back in the day, Inpaint used to be the standard for removing objects from digital photographs. Then I discovered Photo Stamp Remover which I found to be much better and…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Camille Bains reports on Dr. Mona Nemer’s warning that long COVID represents a mass disabling event with potentially devastating social and economic consequences.…
Canada is in need of a Social Rejuvenation
Canada (and the world) needs a social rejuvenation. The post Canada is in need of a Social Rejuvenation first appeared on Excited Delirium.