This guy was almost PM. Stockwell Day wasn't enough of a scare to dissuade Con voters from wasting a decade with Harper. What fresh hell awaits following Scheer?#cdnpoli https://t.co/JMembtaJG6 — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) February 23, 2020 I havent watched #PawPatrol with a critical eye, but there's value in thinking
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A Puff of Absurdity: Chomsky’s Optimism: On Climate Change, Nuclear War, and Activism
Truthdig‘s Scheer Intelligence series, hosted by Robert Scheer, recently posted a 3 hour podcast in two parts. I’ve summarized the gist of what Chomsky says below, in about a 15 minute read, with a few of my own thoughts and links added to the mix. You can listen to the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Prime Minister Furious At Himself
Canada’s bonehead Prime Minister, in an effort to look more like Boris Johnson, has turned up in an old photo sporting a culturally inappropriate turban costume while wearing what is now, finally widely recognized as racist, blackface makeup. Fewer years ago than when the Prime Minister dressed in blackface as
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Conservatives Exceeding Election Spending Expectations
NEW: Elections Canada says it will monitor provincial government interventions in the federal campaign https://t.co/J8UfrINIlR #onpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli — Marieke Walsh (@MariekeWalsh) June 13, 2019 What’s that mean? You’ve heard the Con Premiers like Ford and Moe and Kenney are all threatening Trudeau, saying if he doesn’t do impossible things
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: It’s Europe Calling, Justin. You Might Want to Take This. No? Okay.
The EU elections showed that voters are abandoning old school politics and the same old, same old. Small wonder. Right wing populists appear to be the big winners but also rising is the Green Party. People are worried. They can see what’s coming. They can feel what has already arrived.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Are We To Make of Justin Trudeau?
To a few, he’s the best person ever, a truly decent man and a great prime minister. To a different few, he’s the worst person ever, utterly corrupt, even venal. I don’t believe either of them. He is flawed. He is not to be trusted. He’ll break his promises without
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Young People, Climate Change, Quebec
Have our old school (atrophied) political parties misjudged the issue of climate change? I think so. The worst part is that they haven’t merely shot themselves in the foot. They were pointing that gun considerably higher. This isn’t about Paul Manly and the Green’s by-election win yesterday in Nanaimo-Ladysmith. It’s
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: White Supremacy Flourishes When the Political Caste Start Flirting.
Max Boot has a lesson for all of us but especially for those who have developed a sudden fondness for Andrew Scheer. The American conservative writer warns it’s no longer acceptable for our political leaders and some media outlets to play under-the-table footsie with white nationalists and white supremacists. It’s
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Bill for Thawing Permafrost? Try 70 Trillion Dollars (USD)
This is one we’re not going to be able to duck. We can’t kick this can down the road. It’s already underway, one of the knock-on effects of existing global warming. It is the thawing of the permafrost across the far north. And it’s going to cost us dearly. Dmitry
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What We’re Up Against – The Gang That Would See Canada in Ruins.
It’s the cast of “The Gang of Thugs” premiering this fall.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Crimes Against Humanity
Bear with me while I vent a little – no, a lot. If you want to measure the sincerity and determination of the government’s efforts to thwart climate change, try this: 1. – Remember that climate change is the first existential threat that human civilization, Canada included, has faced. It
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: It Is Revealed in Glimpses But This Is the Unmistakable Face of Today’s Right Wing
Whether it’s Donald Trump’s absolution of white nationalists or Andrew Scheer and Dave Tkachuk embracing them on the lawns of the Parliament buildings, the abject evil of the right wing is unmistakable. Here’s the latest. An Australian senator, Fraser Anning, has responded to the Christchurch massacres by blaming the carnage
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Elizabeth May in Saskatchewan
It’s been another amazing day, and the Sun isn’t even down yet. Attended a lunch-and-learn this morning with @ElizabethMay at the new CAC #UofR building. Earth is sick with multiple and worsening environmental ills killing millions of people yearly, a new UN report says.The report's authors say something can still
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Good News for the Environment = Bad Tidings for Prime Minister Pipeline
If it’s as good as they say it is – and, with these “breakthroughs” that’s always a very big “if” – the fossil energy industry could be kaput. Sorry, Justin. Sorry, Rachel. Sorry, Jason. Sorry, Andrew. Sorry, Big Oil. WooHoo, British Columbia. An article in Financial Post claims a BC company
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Scheer Shouldn’t Shrug Off Toxic Rebel Association
CPC leader Andrew Scheer told reporters Wednesday he would not grant interviews to Rebel Media if the editorial direction remains as it is. — Rosemary Barton (@RosieBarton) August 17, 2017 This was in response to me, and countless others calling for him to denounce the hate site for its involvement
Continue readingThe Right-Wing Observer: Our Conservative Speaker and the Protection of Democracy
Andrew Scheer says he has to stick to past practice in executing his role as the allegedly un-biased Speaker of the House of Commons. It is not his role to police the quality of questions and answers, unless the House asks him to do so. And apparently, despite Thomas Mulcair’s
Continue readingDemocracy is now out of order in Harper’s Canada
Harper toady House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer this past week ruled opposition questions about robocon out of order, saying that all questions “have to touch on the administrative responsibilities of government not political financing,”. WTF, excuse me but how a government and in fact any political party behaves before,
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