Ah, dang it. Like death and taxes, unwanted summer electoral politics are inescapable. Rumour has it that our PM Justin Trudeau is determined to call a snap election, reportedly to be held on September 20th. Why? Because he believes that doing so at this time will ensure his party can win a majority government, allowing him to avoid what he has been calling “opposition obstruction.”
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Roxanne Tellier – The Run Down and the Wrap Up
Posted in Canadian Music, COVID 19, Family, Health, life, music, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Afghanistan, Brookings Institute, climate change, Conservatives, DBAWIS, Election, Florida, googa mooga, Justin Trudeau, Mackettes, NDP, politics, Ray Charles, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, September 20th, the heymacs, The New Yorker, YouTube on August 15, 2021 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt
Posted in COVID 19, Health, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Alberta, Biden, Big Lie, Capitol, Civil War, climate change, DBAWIS, Denial is not just a river in Egypt, Elections Canada, existential threat, FOX, January 6th, Maxime Bernier, pandemic, Paris Climate Agreement, partisan, POGG, Saskatchewan and Ontario, segarini, Supreme Court carbon taxes, Tellier, The Stand, TrashCan Man, zero threat on March 28, 2021 by segariniPeople are utterly fascinating, if you have the luxury of standing back and simply observing the way they think. Mesmerizing, but oftentimes, head-shakingly and misguidedly, arrogant. Best to avoid them in groups.
Take this week’s Supreme Court decision on carbon taxes; in his decision, Chief Justice Richard Wagner wrote that “Climate change is real. It is caused by greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activities, and it poses a grave threat to humanity’s future.”
He added, “The evidence clearly shows that establishing minimum national standards of GHG price stringency to reduce GHG emissions is of concern for Canada as a whole. This matter is critical to our response to an existential threat to human life.”
Roxanne Tellier – Pande-Malaise
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags ‘think positively’, Bird Box, CandyMan., climate change, COVID 19, DBAWIS, Enough already, Feckless Leader, free publicity., Kanye West, Michael Scrivener, Pande-Malaise, Premier Ford, privilege, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, White House on July 5, 2020 by segariniGot an email from a friend the other day, headed “Enough already!” Like so many of us – especially we older folks – she’s sick and tired of being locked down, exasperated with the conflicting information we’ve received, really scared of leaving her home unless it’s absolutely necessary, and furious with the scoffers who put her health in danger with their refusal to wear a mask.
Roxanne Tellier – Parsing what comes between the Thanks and the Giving
Posted in life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags 'get over it, Archie Bunker, Bangladesh, Black Friday, climate change, DBAWIS, Forbes Richest People List, koalas, Kurds, Mad King, narcissism, North Korea, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, Syria, Thanksgiving, White House, Yemen, Yorkville on December 1, 2019 by segariniAmericans celebrated their Thanksgiving this past week. Many families endured long journeys, traveling across the country, to spend time with the people they love. The lucky ones gathered around tables that groaned with heaps of delicious, fresh, and sometimes even healthy, food.
Roxanne Tellier – A Sunday Pot Luck
Posted in Opinion, politics, Review with tags BC, Canada, cannabis, civil rights, climate change, DBAWIS, edible, First Nations, First Past the Post, Indigenous, Jamal Khashoggi Saudi Arabia, Kinder Morgan, legalization, Marijuana, Native Americans, North Dakota, pipeline, pot, Reefer Madness, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, Supreme Court, THC, United States, Voting on October 14, 2018 by segariniYou ready, Canada?
Legal weed can go on sale at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 17, 2018. Cue the screaming and yelling from those who have never seen a Reefer Madness poster that didn’t give them a semi-erotic frisson of fear.