An Encouraging Development
Is momentum building? Let us hope so. As the following video explains, major restaurant brands are planning to ban plastic straws. (I suggest you turn off the sound in the…
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To Go, Or Not To Go
I have written elsewhere on this blog about the decision I and others have made to boycott travel to the U.S. as long as Donald Trump and his peculiar brand…
It Can Be Done
“Where there’s a will, there’s a way,” my mother always said. The question is,”Does that will exist?” These two videos offer a glimmer of hope: Recommend this Post
Happy Canada Day
Vive la difference! Recommend this Post
She Stands By Her Man
When we talk on the phone, my good friend Dave in Winnipeg often talks about the twin ‘curse’ of intelligence and education. Life would be so much easier, he says…
Neoliberal Friends With Benefits
Kinder Morgan couldn’t have a better friend than Justin Trudeau: Texas-based Kinder Morgan made a seven-fold return on the sale of its Trans Mountain pipeline system to Canada’s federal government,…
Signs Of The Times
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Tyranny Has More Than One Face
Methinks there is much truth in the following: Recommend this Post
Trump’s Amerika: "A Toxic Mix Of Senseless Cruelty And Corporate Greed"
The private-prison industry stands to make a fortune from Trump’s immigration crackdown. This toxic mix of senseless cruelty and corporate greed means big profits. Recommend this Post
The Truth About Carbon Pricing
The taxation levels for carbon set by the federal government will likely prove wholly inadequate in getting people to modify their behaviour to combat climate change. However, given the exit…
Is This Really Something To Be Proud Of?
I find myself these days thinking about the beasts that have been unleashed upon society. In the United States, of course, it is Donald Trump who has made it acceptable…
This Is What They Are Fleeing
While Trump and his apostles demonize the migrant families seeking sanctuary in the U.S. as rapists and drug dealers, here is a part of their reality the profoundly intolerant choose…
The Distemper Of Our Times
For one who naturally inclines toward dark brooding, these are not good times. But then, if people follow the news and keep themselves reasonably well-informed about our headlong plunge toward…
A Special Place In Hell Awaits Part 2
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A Special Place In Hell Awaits
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Days Like This
There are many days when I think that words no longer fork any lightning, and this blog would be more useful if I simply aggregated, without commentary, news items that…
Now Even American Networks Are Using The C-Words
Will wonders never cease? For more analysis, watch this, from Global National. Start at the 11:30 mark: Recommend this Post
This, From The ‘Greatest Country On Earth’
I guess when you live in that bastion of democracy, the United States of America, one must be mindful, shall we say, an unwritten set of rules: Rob Rogers has…
Short-Term Gain For Long, Long-Term Pain
I will readily admit to readers that I am not by nature one who sees the glass as half-full; however, since the June 7th provincial election of Doug Ford, which…
How Do You Get In A Fight With Canada?
So asks Seth Myers. To which he answers, “That’s like holding a grudge against a Golden Retriever puppy.” Or, to put it even more succinctly, Recommend this Post