Coincidence?
Ms Soapbox has spent the last two days poring over Hansard. Now she’s sick in bed. Coincidence?
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Stuff Happens, The Reckoning, Week 3: Canadians pawns in game of Chinese checkers (yes, I know that doesn’t make sense)
I believe there is an ancient Chinese proverb that goes: don’t mess with China. China, a country we are trying desperately hard to establish firm trading ties with, is still…
Skunk In The Stinky FP
The FP published a ridiculous op-ed by Brad Wall. business.financialpost .com/opinion/ brad-wall-canada-could-impact-emissions-were-ottawa-not-so-obsessed-with-carbon-taxes “So, in Paris we were — without intention — a few prairie skunks at this low-carbon garden party.”…
Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky Meet Harold Innis
That’s the actual title of a recent book (2015) by Robert E. Babe, who has a doctorate in economics and is professor of Information and Media Studies at the University…
Accepting, Avoiding, and Talking About Collapse
Our best hope for survival is ‘too drastic‘. “The climate system is not stopping you , global society is stopping you.” That’s why the Alberta Premier gets away with saying…
Humpty Trumpty (The Story of Sir TanTrumpALot)
Humpty Trumpty … America has failed the world.
Stub History
I’ve been getting rid of some accumulated paper. I found a receipt for a full year of university tuition in 1978-79: $740. I also found a paystub for my minimum…
Stuff Happens IV, The Reckoning, Week 2: Trump TV
I really did not want to write about Donald Trump, at least not in the second week of the year. But the Glowing Orange Menace decided that eating up 90…
The Tentacles of Torstar.
It is a small hope of mine that Babel-on-the-Bay has some of the same objectives as the Toronto Star. It becomes harder over the years as the Torstar management keep…
S.H.I.T Government: Stephen Harper’s Intentional Turmoil Government
S.H.I.T Government: Stephen Harper’s Intentional Turmoil Government
Trudeau Dodges and Weaves in Regina
Glad to join PM @JustinTrudeau at a Town Hall meeting with over a thousand participants at the @UofRegina tonight.// Je suis heureux de me joindre au PM Trudeau à une…
End of year Globe and Mail oped
Some year end reflections and thoughts on the year to come for the Globe and Mail: Big Tech’s net loss: How governments can turn anger into action It has been…
Time to Launch a BDS Campaign Against Brazil?
Brazil’s Bolsonaro has stripped indigenous peoples of their right to exist. The Amazon and the people of Earth will come next.
On Alberta, West Virginia and a conversation about Oil
We often forget how quickly technology can move. While, Benz developed his first car in 1885; it was the development of Henry Ford’s Model T and his new innovative manufacturing…
Stuff Happens IV: The Reckoning. Week 1, when not much happened.
I’m back. Did you miss me? No? Well, some of you did. Mostly nice family members who idly asked me at Christmas dinner why I didn’t write my weekly news…
Fossil fuel fanaticism
Fossil fuel promoters had either not read the FCA judgment, or reject it for their own reasons. Many of these people applauded when a court jailed opponents of Trans Mountain…
Ford Lies About Gas Prices
Why are people believing Doug Ford’s claims about his effect on gas prices?
Saluting Salutin.
Maybe you have never wasted much time on reading Toronto Star writer Rick Salutin. I have never considered his opinions of importance or particularly well founded. I have had the…
A Few Random Year-End Notes (And Hopes For 2019)
What was 2018 all about for you? What do you see happening in 2019? Some thoughts here. Thanks for reading in 2018!! I look forward to more writing in 2019.
Lyin’ Liars
My promoted tweets are logging companies lying to people that logging is good for the climate, and Oil companies like Suncor lying to people that oil drilling is good for…