Today I joined Kristy meron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now”, along with Katlyn Harrison and Shane MacKenzie on the “Politil Heat” panel. We talked about rumors about John Baird seeking the Conservative Leadership, CoronaVirus, it’s effect on our economy & the energy sector and the Prime Minister’s mpaign to get nada
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Sooo Predictable. Kenney Tries to Rattle Trudeau’s Chain. Wexit, Fear Wexit.
Jason Kenney is trying to pressure Justin Trudeau to greenlight the Teck bitumen mine by threatening dire consequences if he doesn’t. In a letter to Trudeau, hand-delivered to Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland last week, Kenney said he expects to see the project approved beuse its emissions would fall well
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Out of the Dust from the Collapse of Neoliberalism Comes…
A pundit wrote that Trump is not some fluke, an aberration. He is instead the culmination of a process of dey that began dedes ago. Trump, or someone of his odious ilk, was an inevitability. Noam Chomsky was interviewed at Truthout recently. He contends that we’re now witnessing the collapse
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: UNIST’OT’EN MATRIARCHS ARRESTED; STAND WITH UNIST’OT’EN NOW!
Unist’ot’en Territory, Feb 10, 2020 – A convoy of armed RCMP tactil units has invaded sovereign and unceded Unist’ot’en Territory to enforce Coastal GasLink’s injunction. Our Unist’ot’en Matriarchs and lands defenders have Read more…
Continue readingStuart Mackinnon's BetterParks for Vancouver: Vancouver parks to offer free ‘basic necessity’ menstrual products in all washrooms
The board could join other municipal agencies, including in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Burnaby, New Westminster and Port Moody, in offering the products for free. All schools in B.C. were also mandated to offer the products in their washrooms by the end of last year but not all are doing s.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A "Harper-Whipped Throwback"
That’s how Michael Harris sees Tory leadership hopeful, Peter MacKay. He n’t speak French, he views the media as either a vanity mirror or the enemy, and a rubber boot has more ideas. So why is Peter MacKay the favourite to become the next leader of the Conservative Party of
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: ten reasons why Peter MacKay has a shot
Peter MacKay has hit a rough patch. Weird social media. Policy incoherence. Crummy French. Interviews going awry. Sure, he’s coughed up the big entrance fee, and proffered the requisite number of signatures. me up with a nice logo. Attracted the support of smart backroomers, and figured out how to avoid
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: A Letter from an Albertan to His Prime Minister About the Tech Mine
Over the weekend I wrote a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau about the proposed Teck Frontier tar sands mine and cc’d appropriate parties. The letter is below. I felt it was important to let the feds know that not all Albertans are in denial about the climate crisis. I hope
Continue readingMagpie Br?lé: Cultural Appropriation Through Electoral Loophole?
As many people who read this site know, or have come to know over time, I am Métis and proudly so. In the politil sphere that n mean a few things but one of those things is having to be very protective of our nation, who we are and defend
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Wet’suwet’en Raids: We Step Back From Advancing
nadians should be ashamed when we look at how First Nations protesters against pipelines are being treated. We n do better than this.
Continue readingrtoon life: luso mnthali on Twitter: “US Customs officials destroyed renowned Mali musician Ballaké Sissoko’s kora. https://t.co/NxXIQthUec” / Twitter
luso mnthali on Twitter: “US Customs officials destroyed renowned Mali musician Ballaké Sissoko’s kora. https://t.co/NxXIQthUec” / Twitter — Read on twitter.com/malabousaza/status/1225151856999043074
Continue readingrtoon life: gerald zuckier on Twitter: “@cmargir @malabousaza @chick_in_kiev Studies suggest that as much as 75% of the drugs that reach the US are smuggled over the border in glue used to hold pianos together, brought in by world famous pianists. Each piano may have as much as an ounce of drugs dissolved in the glue holding its 1200 lbs together.” / Twitter
gerald zuckier on Twitter: “@cmargir @malabousaza @chick_in_kiev Studies suggest that as much as 75% of the drugs that reach the US are smuggled over the border in glue used to hold pianos together, brought in by world famous pianists. Each piano may have as much as an ounce of drugs
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Technology n Be The Problem
Technology, we’re told, n and will make lives easier. That’s true — but only partially true. When it comes to elections, what happened in Iowa proves that our faith in technology has been misplaced. Robin Sears writes: The debacle in Iowa, like the one that struck Democrats and Republins there
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of February 10, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of February 10, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Philadelphia Flyers’ mascot Gritty cleared in alleged assault, police say Lawmaker quotes ‘Harry Potter’ to make impeachment argument A Berkely school played ‘The Lion King’ at a fundraising event. Now it has to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Annie Lowrey writes about the affordability crisis which has left most Amerins in dire financial straits even as aggregate economic numbers look reasonably strong: (B)eyond the headline economic numbers, a multifarious and strangely invisible economic crisis metastasized: Let’s ll it the Great Affordability
Continue readingThings Are Good: Eating Lolly isn’t as Important as you Think
Diets make a difference in your individual health and our total global health. If we all eat healthier then the planet’s health will also improve, and the best way to do this is by eating foods with low green house gas (GHG) emissions. It turns out the best way to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz
Sometimes a little life advice is in order.? I’ve read Ruiz’s book and it seems to be quite sensible.? So here are the four agreements and the Psychology Today handy explanation below. Be impecble with your word. Don’t take anything personally. Don’t make assumptions. Always do your best. 1.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: News from the ‘Working Families’ of Vaughan.
Vaughan might want to be known as the city above Toronto but it seems to have also earned attention as a city of some unusual politics. Most recently, it has become the home of “Vaughan Working Families.” This is the fictitious group running attack ads against the teachers’ unions in
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Rate Mitigation Circus of Horrors #nlpoli
Late Friday evening, the Muskrat Falls rate mitigation circus me to town. Again. Around 7:40 PM, long after everyone with sense had gone home for the day, natural resources minister Siobhan Coady released the last report from the Public Utilities Board review that started in 2018. As expected, it told
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Former U.S. ambassador to nada unaware of any conversation like the plot described by Jason Kenney
There’s a small but important update to the story about Jason Kenney’s conspiracy theorizing in Washington at the end of last week. According to the man who served as the United States’ ambassador to nada from 2014 to 2017, nothing was ever said to him that would suggest there were
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