The Beaches – Blame Brett
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: You Got Played, Girl
On March 19, 2024 the United Conservative Party of Alberta held an event that they called "Let Kids Be Kids" (spoiler alert: it was an anti-trans/anti-2SLGBTQ/anti-SOGI/"parents rights" rally in reality). They brought in a transgender woman from Lethbridge to speak to the transgender case. I don't know this person,
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Let’s Celebrate All Holidays….
So Quebec and Canada are secular? Why then do we have national holidays on Good Friday and Easter Monday? Why not Eid Muburak or Passover? Or none at all?
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: safety zones, now
Bubble zones: they work. Bubble zones – or “buffer zones,” “safe access zones” or access zones” – first started to show up in the early 1990s. Back then, women seeking legal abortions, or just seeking advice, were routinely being harassed and threatened at clinics and hospitals that provide those services. Going
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Kinsellacast Music Volume 10 now out!
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: For Your Consideration
In a time when reflexive rather than reflective responses are elicited by some of our politicians, a little food for thought from Patrick Corrigan. Axe the tax, spike the hike, bring it home and other such mindless slogans may never be quite the same again. Recommend this Post
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: All Things Reconsidered – The Fall of NPR in the US (1)
How does a once venerated public institution fall into disrepute? Let’s find out the how and why.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: SFH at the Bovine
…opening for Richard Lloyd. We weren’t totally irredeemably horrid.
Continue readingJeff Jedras: Eating off the Hill: My meals aboard VIA Rail’s The Ocean
As part of my pre-Christmas travels last year, I used my VIA Preference points to knock another iconic sleeper train off my list: The Ocean. While not a bucket-list item like The Canadian, the Ocean was still a trip I wanted to try. It’s an overnight sleeper train from Montreal
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Why non-profit news might not be such a great idea
“The Fin de Siècle Newspaper Proprietor” by Frederick Burr Opper, Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1894. Image courtesy the Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons. Having been down a couple of rabbit holes recently and emerging from the last one covered in pink slime, I am now having sober second thoughts about the non-profit
Continue readingQueer-liberal: Today’s tonic: “Crappy as it is, the @CBC may turn out to be the hero we need,” by Rick Salutin
Today’s tonic: “Crappy as it is, the @CBC may turn out to be the hero we need,” by Rick Salutin in the Toronto Star. Here are excerpts below: “In true melodramatic fashion, now that it’s on the brink, it may’ve become indispensable to our very survival “CBC was created
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: One Step Forward…
More good news about antivirals. From Nate Bear: People are experiencing, “almost complete Long Covid recovery with the use of an HIV antiretroviral [ART]. There is obviously viral persistence in a proportion of Long Covid cases and the denial of this fact in the medical establishment is killing people.” So,
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Biden loses Ireland
The U.S. departed almost radically from an habitual practice on a resolution at a United Nations Security Council meeting Monday. It didn’t vote in Israel’s favour. The Council passed a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza during the remaining weeks of Ramadan. The resolution passed with 14 votes
Continue readingQueer-liberal: Special reminder to Ontario voters: Doug Ford is still a total IDIOT!
I read this story today and felt relieved that responsible professionals who are charged with the care of children and youth are taking action to hold gluttonous, unethical social media companies accountable for how they’ve targeted all children and youth for addiction to their platforms. “Four major Ontario school boards
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rumtin Sepasspour and Courtney Tee write that it’s impossible for governments to prevent and prepare for catastrophic risks when they’re deliberately operating in denial that such risks even exist. And Crawford Kilian points out how the fact that we’re still in the
Continue readingIn This Corner: I am now a grandfather. Congratulate me.
As of March 15th at about 1:45p.m. – the Ides of March, whatever that means – I crossed the last threshold into senior citizenship. I am now a grandfather, and, by extension, I am now married to a grandmother. My youngest son, with a little help from his wife, increased
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Day tripping
A one-day return trip from the lower mainland to Victoria had us leaving North Vancouver about 5:30 am. That put us in the Tsawwassen terminal early enough to confirm our reservation for […]
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: March 28, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: 5 charged following investigation into alleged cheating at Toronto casino #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/28pr7d8j – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Suing Social Media Giants
A collection of school boards are suing a collection of social media sites for allegedly deliberately hurting students. That’s from the Toronto Star headline, but deliberate harm?? I’m not sure what the lawsuit actually says, and I’m not a lawyer, but I would think that a charge of deliberate harm means they’d have
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