Today’s News: Wistful thinking
I suspect this is just wistful thinking, but isn't it delightful that it maybe might be true?I can't stand Poilievre but Doug Ford? He's the dopiest fucker outside of Smith…
The Alberta Sovereignty Act Rises Again
Alberta moved one step closer to becoming a banana republic this week. Premier Smith announced she will use the Sovereignty Act to combat the federal government’s cap on emissions by…
Saturday Photo: Word to the Wise….
Went to the Technoparc this morning, hoping to see some birds. Only chickadees though, one of which landed on my walking stick. The ponds were frozen which reminded me of…
Follow-up on The Meat Loaf Summit
The Toronto Star had the skinny on the Meat Loaf Summit: Tonda MacCharles / The Toronto Star Inside Justin Trudeau’s surprise dinner with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida Trudeau…
Danielle Smith’s latest blatantly unconstitutional border patrol brainstorm is about owning the Libs
On its face, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s screwball scheme to create a provincial border patrol force intended to prevent Canadian citizens from crossing the U.S. border into Montana is blatantly…
Roxy
Roxy was her name. Before I even met her, that was her name. She was a black lab and boxer mix, and a rescue. I drove out to Woodstock with…
But Were They Allowed To Sit At The Adults’ Table?
I have to admit to deep ambivalence in hearing the news that Team Trudeau jetted off to Mar a Lago to have dinner with the incoming American president. My mental…
Normalizing Fascism: The Paradox of Tolerance
The Brexit campaign succeeded on a platform that cultivated anger, fear, conspiracies, and racism based on lies and disinformation. Donald Trump’s campaigns have succeeded twice on platforms that increasingly cultivated…
A Letter Shared by the Monarchist League of Canada on Practical Ways to Increase Visibility and Understanding of the Canadian Monarchy
On the 26th, the Monarchist League of Canada shared a letterfrom one of its members with practical ways the monarchycould be better highlighted to Canadians. The text of thatletter has…
Today’s news: Talking turkey about tariffs
Tonight, Trudeau flew to Mar-a-Lago to have dinner with Trump and talk turkey about tariffs. Now, Trump is a vain, stupid man and Trudeau is a progressive, a scholar and…
Musical interlude
Audrey Vixen - Emergency Room
The hypocrisy of exporting fossil fuel emissions
Alberta is the pollution province. Despite a population of less than a third of Ontario,... The post The hypocrisy of exporting fossil fuel emissions first appeared on Views from the…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Joshua Pearce discusses the reality that the climate crisis could carry a ten-figure death toll over the course of this century - which would…
Talking about neoliberalism in our age of crisis with Clement Nocos of the Broadbent Institute
the podcast https://perspectivesjournal.ca/neoliberalism-undead-with-alex-himelfarb/
Electric Car Interest Is NOT Going Down
New ZEV registrations are up in every reporting province from 2023 2nd quarter to this year’s second quarter. People who say that “interest in EVs is decreasing”, are simply lying…
Legal News Post of the Day: November 29, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Canadian Competition Bureau sues Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/sx3zJ34OQ7 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
And voters get what they deserve
Why do so many think democracy is eternal? Why do they think we are in an enlightened age? It isn’t. We aren’t.
From Kanehsatà:ke to Palestine
In the summer of 1990, Ellen Gabriel (Katsi’tsakwas) was chosen by the People of the Longhouse and her community of Kanehsatà:ke to be their spokesperson during the infamous “Oka Crisis,”…