How many shirts do you really need?
While leafing through a Costco flyer recently, I spotted a great deal on t-shirts: four Bench men’s v-necks for $15.99. Such a deal! Can’t have too many shirts, right? Not…
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Plague Update: BoJo’s Contempt For Parliament
Two years ago the UK PM Boris Johnson almost died from COVID-19. About 3 months after that, he broke his own government’s COVID-19 public safety measures and had a birthday…
Plague Update: Masks
We’re still taking off our shoes because of one dude 21 years ago but can’t be bothered to wear masks after 1,000,000 dead from a virus that’s still killing over…
Updated for 2022: Civic Hatchback vs LEAF Hatchback
In 2019 I wrote a guide for people to help them decide which vehicle type saved them more money: an affordable used EV with a solar panel grid-tied system, or…
Scott Moe Doesn’t Care
It seems so obvious, I almost didn’t bother blogging about it. Scott Moe doesn’t care that Saskatchewan’s climate pollution is out of control. He barely admits there is a problem,…
Maybe Kenney should let the lunatics take over the asylum
If I may borrow from an oft-repeated phrase from TV news, I’m going to begin this column with this: WARNING: some content may be disturbing. OK, here goes … I’m…
Canada’s Housing Crisis
Canada’s housing situation is less about what supply should be pumped into the market and more about managing what we have more efficiently. The post Canada’s Housing Crisis first appeared…
Plague Update: Shahab Predicts COVID Will Wane by March 2022
The depravity of Shahab and Moe is really laid bare, as Canada enters the 2nd Omicron wave in no small part to the removal of public health measures. They shamefully…
SaskPower: A Job Half Done
…is as good as none. If you’re impressed by SaskPower’s objective to reduce emissions by only half, by 2030, you’re setting the bar way too low. A big reason Saskatchewan…
Carbon Capture Doesn’t Work
In this exhaustive research, the folks with Environmental Defence have proven that the unicorn idea of ‘carbon capture’ just doesn’t work. Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) refers to technologies…
Welcome to my moved blog!
As you’ll see, its very bare-bones here at the moment. That’s partially due to me still figuring out what I want to do on here and how to do it…
What can municipalities do about homelessness?
I recently contributed an essay to a paper series published by the University of Toronto’s Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance. The focus of my own essay is the role…
Doug Ford’s Assault on the Climate
GAS … cars, cars, cars. With a name like FORD, I suppose that makes sense. Very few actions being announced by Doug Ford in Ontario relate to moving in the…
Plague Update: Sweden Killed People
Really shocking news out of Sweden. Eugenicists have been setting policy, and children were being used as bio-weapons. Remember all the right wingers online touting Sweden as an example for…
A Potential Blog Move
Well.. its renewal time for the server that hosts my blog due on April 7, and at this point, with lack of blog activity (except what you see on my…
The Slap II: Attack of the Opinions
So, did you hear about the Oscars this year? Yep, absolutely unbelievable … Mac Ruth won the Oscar for best sound! About time, right? But Mac Ruth’s golden moment has…
Jagmeet Singh Big Gamble?
So I have listened to lots of people who have talked about the Liberal-NDP Supply & Confidence Agreement and most of them have said exactly the same thing. From Christie…
And the winners won’t be … the audience
Not too many years ago, a great swath of North America would have been tuned in to the Academy Awards. But not last year. And certainly not this year. The…
“You Can Take This Job and….”
It’s been quite a crazy week in Canadian politics to say the least. The confidence and supply agreement between the Liberals and NDP would normally make for big enough news…
Covid Journal, Mar 24, 2022
Should the story about one unfortunate ‘protester’ who’s lost all his money to frozen accounts and fraudulent organizers be leading the daily stories with the CBC? The post Covid Journal,…