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…
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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,…
Plague Update: BA.2 Taking Over
Our society has entered the phase of the pandemic where most people are trying to pretend that everything is normal, and there’s nothing dangerous about eating in restaurants or sending…
A Great Day For Canada
About fricken time the Liberals and NDP came to an agreement to stop the never-ending short election cycle. This should have happened last year. Now let’s get some movement on…
Making It Work
It never ceases to amaze me how some big things just happen, surprising us all and catching everyone off guard. It seems to come when we least expect it or…
Lessons from two years of COVID-19
We – and by we, I mean the entire world – have just marked two full years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. Time flies when you’re living in fear…
Empathetic Failures in Manitoba
We’re living in rough times to say the least, and as much as things seem to be changing around us, some things continue on as they have before. One of…
A Speech to Move a Nation
Today was a rare day in political Ottawa, one that few ever witnesses. It’s not very often that the leader of another country is offered the chance to address the…
Welcome to the Carbon Broadcasting Corporation
As WWIII looms in Europe, why are we using this moment to make excuses for the carbon industry? Enough already. The post Welcome to the Carbon Broadcasting Corporation first appeared…
Shots Fired at the Bow
We’re in the very early stages of the Conservative Leadership Race and to call it chippy would a very strong understatement. We’ve seen the early attacks from frontrunner Pierre Poilievre…
Some Good News?
How bike lanes inspired some thoughts about better design which in turn results in less dependency. The post Some Good News? first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Short Break
Given world events it’s become a little more difficult to focus on those squawking about their freedoms being trampled and not getting a fair deal from Ottawa. So Ms Soapbox…
Putin and NATO
A proposed explanation, if not a justification, for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is that NATO pushed too far east and thus posed a threat. Actually it wasn’t so much…
Why are the oil companies raising the price of gas? Because. They. Can.
Despite many half-hearted attempts to diversify the economy, we in Alberta just keep falling back into the brawny, oily arms of Big Oil. We owe much of our wealth to…
The True Start of the Race
It was over a month ago that the fact of a race to lead the Conservative Party of Canada came to be. It only took a few more days after…