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I went on a "safari" yesterday in downtown Saskatoon organized by the Saskatoon Heritage Society. The facades of many of the grand buildings here are Tyndall Stone, a highly fossiliferous dolomite limestone quarried in Manitoba and transported by rail to the city in the very early 20th century.
August 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I went on a "safari" yesterday in downtown Saskatoon organized by the Saskatoon Heritage Society. The facades of many of the grand buildings here are Tyndall Stone, a highly fossiliferous dolomite limestone quarried in Manitoba and transported by rail to the city in the very early 20th century.
August 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
As Adam Tooze has pointed out, it is now China who is setting out the terms of modernity. They bet on "green". The U.S. is being hobbled by a reactionary political coalition of fossil capital, monopoly tech, and national security hawks.
July 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
As Adam Tooze has pointed out, it is now China who is setting out the terms of modernity. They bet on "green". The U.S. is being hobbled by a reactionary political coalition of fossil capital, monopoly tech, and national security hawks.
#yxe Last chance to pull out Creeping Bluebell — they are going to seed now. They'll be back next year...their root system is extensive and they need to be dug out of the garden, but at least you can stop the spread. This is the most pernicious invasive plant in Saskatoon.
July 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
#yxe Last chance to pull out Creeping Bluebell — they are going to seed now. They'll be back next year...their root system is extensive and they need to be dug out of the garden, but at least you can stop the spread. This is the most pernicious invasive plant in Saskatoon.
Poilievre keeps running with this GDP per capita argument, but it's very weak.
July 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Poilievre keeps running with this GDP per capita argument, but it's very weak.
I'll settle with you for the $16 million the F.C.C. wants if you fire Colbert. Such a fucking fascist move. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...
CBS Canceling ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ After Next Season
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July 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I'll settle with you for the $16 million the F.C.C. wants if you fire Colbert. Such a fucking fascist move. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...
They are fascists. Dougald Lamont gets it right. dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/marc-andre...
Marc Andreesen, Peter Thiel and The Crypto Fascists of Silicon Valley
Andreesen and other broligarchs are horrible, mediocre, insecure people with no redeeming human qualities who don't get the respect they feel they're due. So they try to force us instead.
dougaldlamont.substack.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
They are fascists. Dougald Lamont gets it right. dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/marc-andre...
The most common retort from local climate change deniers is why should we take on the expense of transitioning to an electric economy when our impact is so minimal to the phenomenon of global warming.
July 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The most common retort from local climate change deniers is why should we take on the expense of transitioning to an electric economy when our impact is so minimal to the phenomenon of global warming.
We are being invaded, and it's war. Creeping Bluebell is choking out Lily of the Valley in our gardens. It is overlooked because it is pretty, but there is no perfumed scent to it and it is far inferior to the historically esteemed Lily of the Valley.
July 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We are being invaded, and it's war. Creeping Bluebell is choking out Lily of the Valley in our gardens. It is overlooked because it is pretty, but there is no perfumed scent to it and it is far inferior to the historically esteemed Lily of the Valley.
"They preached “a flight from democracy to safety: to gold, to family, to Christianity, a plea to divest from state money and into the metal...
From Democracy to “Safety” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Kristen R. Ghodsee considers the anti-communist contexts that birthed the alt-right, in a review of Quinn Slobodian’s new book “Hayek’s Bastards.”
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July 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"They preached “a flight from democracy to safety: to gold, to family, to Christianity, a plea to divest from state money and into the metal...
July 3, 2025 at 3:38 AM
In American history leading up to the Civil War there were many northerners who abided the economic arguments for the continuation of slavery, until the imperative of social obligation manifest in the language of personal conscience. So it is today with climate change.
June 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
In American history leading up to the Civil War there were many northerners who abided the economic arguments for the continuation of slavery, until the imperative of social obligation manifest in the language of personal conscience. So it is today with climate change.
Any expansion of oil and gas development without a commensurate plan to reduce carbon emissions is insane. It just is. Why don't Conservatives just come out and admit they don't believe in climate change. It will make the vote a simple one.
June 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Any expansion of oil and gas development without a commensurate plan to reduce carbon emissions is insane. It just is. Why don't Conservatives just come out and admit they don't believe in climate change. It will make the vote a simple one.
To the deniers and naysayers of climate change I can only say that we know in what direction to move.
June 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
To the deniers and naysayers of climate change I can only say that we know in what direction to move.
It seems the argument being made now is that war is the path to peace. The moral and the economic justification is more difficult to make when the war is preemptive.
June 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
It seems the argument being made now is that war is the path to peace. The moral and the economic justification is more difficult to make when the war is preemptive.
The South Saskatchewan river is as low as I've ever seen it in my decade living in Saskatoon. The Prairie Lily can't sail...and yet Scott Moe has publicly declared that he will evade federal law that has been substantiated by the Supreme Court of Canada
June 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The South Saskatchewan river is as low as I've ever seen it in my decade living in Saskatoon. The Prairie Lily can't sail...and yet Scott Moe has publicly declared that he will evade federal law that has been substantiated by the Supreme Court of Canada
Didn't we see this movie before? The hesitancy of the Isolationists is not necessarily ill founded. What's the plan to avoid a quagmire? History exploding in our faces. The clown show is going to war.
June 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Didn't we see this movie before? The hesitancy of the Isolationists is not necessarily ill founded. What's the plan to avoid a quagmire? History exploding in our faces. The clown show is going to war.