Analysis from Tzeporah Berman Prime Minister Mark Carney has just been listed by Newsweek as second in their list “Revenge of the Climate Heretics: The 50 Leading Eco-Policy Dissenters”. Right after Bill Gates and before Trump. And yesterday Cansda received the “fossil of the day” at #cop31. Oh Canada! how far we have fallen. And... Continue Reading →
Trump Makes His Chief Bigot His Chief of Staff - Not good news Reposted from Robert Reich on Substack Friends, Anyone wondering how Trump will respond to the biggest repudiation a modern U.S. president has ever received from American voters need wonder no longer. Today, Trump announced that Stephen Miller would become his chief of... Continue Reading →
What can I possibly add to the jubilation and commentary of Tuesday night and the next morning? We done did it, cut off the head of the snake. We got our miracle. A new world begins. Of course there is one tiny, tiny problem which is that going forward is going to be hard and... Continue Reading →
A Guide to What We’ll Know on Election Night, Hour by Hour By Nate Cohn in the New Work Times daily letter Today, the voters will have the final say on the 2026 election. But as has so often been the case in recent years, we might not learn their verdict on election night. To... Continue Reading →
From Tzeporah Berman on FB The Green vote did not cause the BC NDP to lose this election. The numbers are pretty clear. It’s also clear that David Eby and the BCNDP lost this election and saddled us with a majority Conservative government because they abandoned their base, broke their promises and then made a... Continue Reading →
[Ken Gray] We’ve been here before and here we are again. Some will remember the first BC-Liberal government of Gordon Campbell who in 2001 defeated the Glenn Clark led NDP taking 77 of 79 seats in the legislature. This was the largest majority of seats and the second-largest majority of the popular vote in BC... Continue Reading →
James Talarico for Senate, Neil Bush -- Republican Neil Bush says he was ‘deeply troubled’ by opponent Ken Paxton’s conduct and ‘enormously impressed’ with Talarico Ariana Baio Wed 21 Oct 2026 at The Guardian Neil Bush, a son of former president George HW Bush and a lifelong Republican, announced on Tuesday that he crossed party... Continue Reading →
Reposted from Hans Nichols -- Oct 20, 2026 Axios Hill Leaders [None of these folks have any interest in "getting money out of politics." None. The more the merrier is seems. THE NUMBERS ARE STAGGERING. No wonder politics is in so much trouble globally. KJG] House Republicans are entering the final two weeks of the... Continue Reading →
Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief, The Guardian Last month, the documentary movie NAZA, produced by the Guardian, received the longest standing ovation in the history of the Venice international film festival, where it had its global premiere and won the special jury prize. Filmed on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the documentary features interviews with 24 Israeli... Continue Reading →
From the National Observer, October 13, 2026, as told to Patrician Lane [Ken Gray] I grew up in Oak Bay and still visit often. I wish I still did live there so I could vote for Sam Holland, for many reasons. but I can't. Here in the South Okanagan we could sure use this kind... Continue Reading →
