Love these Habs now
Love These Habs Now(apologies to Mon Rovîa) Do you hear the Bell Centre roar?Do you recall when you heard that beforeTimes ain't the same in the AtlanticGot a bunch of…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Nicholas Kristof rightly characterizes the Trump/Musk demolition of US foreign aid as reflecting the world's wealthiest and most powerful men attacking the world's…
Saturday Photo: Mothers’ Day is a Day of Remembering
The photo is a good 45 years old, but I love it. The woman is my mother and the little girls are my daughter and her cousin. Don't know what…
Louise Arbour The Right Choice For The Times
Despite what you may have heard, the appointment of Louise Arbour to the role of Governor General of Canada is a perfect political message in a time of turmoil.
Sunday Funday: Funny posts about Canada, ETTD, sports, academics, and more, plus Carney hat-trick TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers
First, good items about Canada Todd Maffin does a "heritage minute" about Heritage Minutes All of the Minutes are saved here: https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes This is my favourite: Heaven does exist and…
Danielle Smith – the public face of foreign interference in Canada – gets Canadian security clearance
Danielle Smith, who is basically the public face of foreign interference in Canada, has been given a Canadian “Top Secret” security clearance, her press secretary said on Thursday. According to…
Rain
Some scribbling with the brushes and allowing the next thought to come.
Good for the Habs! Plus today’s Canada news – from Obama to a pink Barbie Jeep
Habs win!So the series is tied as they head to Montreal for the next two games. When it got to 4-1, that was really the end for Buffalo View on…
Deep Playoff Run (apologies to CHappell Roan)
(Sung to the tune of "Pink Pony Club") I know you wanted me to stay Mired in the Atlantic division, out of Bettman’s way And I heard Saint-Louis’s sage conseil…
Musical interlude
Bob Moses - Leave Like This
Saskatchewan Planning To Fail
The Sask Party and NDP have presented similar and disastrous plans for the electrical grid. There are details about what the Sask Party would have Sask Power do, in this…
Norway treats fossil fuels as a public inheritance. British Columbia treats them as a giveaway.
At today’s exchange rate, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is worth roughly C$3.09 trillion — an extraordinary figure for a country with a population of about 5.6 million, very close to…
Let’s get building!
Doug Ford introduces a bonfire of burning money as THERME.
Paved With Good Intentions
To want Canada to prosper during these tumultuous times is both noble and natural. Federal government leadership to forge that path is something we expect, given that our problems are…
Today’s News: Poilievre Put-downs, Responding to Wexit, China gives Trump the finger, and a Hantavirus Cruise Ship Update
Poilievre Put-downs I think I need to start a regular feature about the comments and cartoons I see on our opposition leader Pierre Poilievre. I must admit, I seldom actually…
BC’s natural gas revenue disappearing while gas production soars
While the BC NDP talks publicly about a comprehensive plan focused on clean energy, the government has in fact been focused on increasing fossil fuel production. This policy may be…
Looking For Part-Time Work To Supplement My ODSP, It Should Be Easy… Right?
It has been a long long long time coming, but I believe now is the moment to start looking for a job. Nothing major, at least not to start with.…
Horse gone; barn door now shut: Elections Alberta issues 568 cease-and-desist letters
Now that the metaphorical horse has departed the proverbial barn for pastures unknown, Alberta’s toothless elections agency says it’s slamming the barn door shut. At any rate, Elections Alberta officials…
Saskatchewan NDP Turmoil
On Tuesday, the Sask NDP lost one of their MLAs. She’s sitting as an independent MLA, after leader Carla Beck cracked the whip. Jennifer Bowes spoke out on Facebook with…