BC Conservatives tolerate bigotry
South Surrey Conservative candidate Brent Chapman was revealed to have called Palestinin children "inbred, walking, talking, breathing time bombs." Additionally, he agreed with a podcast host from the fringe that…
2024
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving! This is a quick note to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving. The Soapbox family celebrated as it always does with dear friends, our daughters and their partners,…
The UCP AGM Resolutions – Part 2
Yesterday, I talked about how fully 1/3 of the resolutions in the upcoming UCP AGM were distinctly anti-transgender. Today, I want to look at the picture that the overall resolutions…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Charlie Warzel warns that the level of disinformation saturation in the U.S. has reached the point of organized violence and sabotage. H. Colleen Sinclair…
Masks or Longterm Illness in Children – It Shouldn’t be a Difficult Decision
Sara Novak recently wrote about the study that found 20% of children have Long Covid, aka PASC (Post Acute Sequelae of Covid) that I discussed in August, but Novak brought…
Happy Thanksgiving
To new and long-term readers, the best of the season. H/t Greg PerryAnd this warning seems appropriate for the times in which we live:Suddenly, Canadians aren’t so different from AmericansWe…
Saturday Photo: Thanksgiving Greetings
Heat on, considering getting out winter coat. A chilly Thanksgiving day. Not at all religious but very grateful for all I and my dear ones have. Everyone should be so…
My political gut
Always trust my gut over polls. My gut is telling me Harris is slowly losing the election. I’m a war room guy, so I always favor bringing the heat. Harris…
foot pain, swimming, push-ups, and roast chicken: four things going on with me
I haven't written one of these silly personal posts in a while, and things are piling up. As I always say, I write this blog for myself, and I have…
Today’s News: Freaking Out about the Presidential Polls
https://www.270towin.com/mpThree weeks to go and the Presidential polls are freaking everyone out:If you are noticing that the only national polls Trump is leading in are the ones taken by a…
What happens to the Alberta Energy Industry when Buildings can produce more energy than they consume?
To me the idea that a building can produce more energy than it consumes is a bit mindblowing. It sounds like a crazy idea. When I first heard it, I…
BC Greens on Education
Surrey-Cloverdale BC Green candidate Pat McCutcheon pointed to the BC Government boasting that a new addition to École K.B. Woodward would allow some of the school’s portables to be “used…
The 2024 UCP AGM Policy Resolutions
The UCP's policy resolutions were published on the party website the other day. It's about as bad as you might expect, worse if you're a transgender person. Let's take a…
Arundhati Roy: ‘No propaganda on Earth can hide the wound that is Palestine’
Arundhathi Roy accepts the PEN Pinter Prize 2024 while holding a portrait of British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, named this year’s Writer of Courage, with whom she shared…
No pharmacare, please, we’re Alberta Conservatives! … and if there’s no grift, there’ll be no gift!
Alberta still won’t join the federal pharmacare program. Never mind Health Minister Adriana LaGrange’s explanation in her press release Friday – “the federal government has yet to share its vision…
Automated Translation in Javascript with Google Translate API
The main thing to know here is that Google's AI does not know how Google's API interface works. It will give you advice that works fine with GET requests but…
Automated Translation in Javascript with Google Translate API
The main thing to know here is that Google's AI does not know how Google's API interface works. It will give you advice that works fine with GET requests but…
About Samidoun and the terrorist list
Until a few days ago I had never heard of the organization Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner... The post About Samidoun and the terrorist list first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
An important week in British Columbia
Right-wing coalitions friendly to big business ruled this province for 52 of the last 72 years. Led by a man removed in 2022 from the Official Opposition caucus for denying…