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Continue readingNorthern Reflections: A Contrary View
If the polls are to be believed, we are headed for a Conservative juggernaut. Susan Riley isn’t so sure: Lurking somewhere between despair and denial, you can spot tiny glimmers of hope for non-Conservative voters in this country—in what is, admittedly, an otherwise dire and discouraging political landscape. These glimmers
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of March 25, 2024
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Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of March 25, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 25, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: Supreme Court Lets Public Office Ban Stand for ‘Cowboys for Trump’ Founder Roy McMurtry, former Ontario attorney general, dies at 91 Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro indicted for allegedly falsifying COVID-19 vaccination status Ontario asks
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Fighting climate change: Beyond Canada’s carbon tax
Photo by Kris Krüg/Flickr Free Transit Ottawa (FTO) organized a public meeting on March 18 on the theme “Fighting Climate Change: Beyond the Carbon Tax.” The event was co-sponsored by a range of local climate justice movements including, Ecology Ottawa, Horizon Ottawa, Justice for Workers, Fridays for Future and the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Pronoun Equivocation – “Respect”
Having recently gotten into a discussion about the misnamed “Gender Affirming Care” with some of my acquaintances we broached many contentious topics but one point that stuck out was when we got into pronoun territory. My interlocutor was brought up the idea that the shortening of names – like Stan
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Identity: Erikson, Freud, and Sartre
I recently listened to a podcast of Dr. Louis Cozolino, a neuroscientist and psychoanalyst, discussing what he would teach if he were training psychotherapists. The first year would be phenomenology: the power of Carl Rogers’ perspective to train how to develop an alliance through reflective listening while keeping countertransference out
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Let Cuba Live!
Winnipeg, March 24, 2024: Members of the Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee rallied to show support for the Cuban people in their six-decade struggle to end the United States economic blockade of their country. Following is the text of a statement the Committee distributed at the rally. BIDEN, END THE CRIMINAL U.S.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Tegan and Sara call out Smith Government for UCP’s anti-trans policies at Junos
Thank you to the musical Quin twins, universally known as the indie pop duo Tegan and Sara, for speaking up at the Juno Awards in Halifax last night about the Danielle Smith Government’s grotesque War on Trans Kids. Alberta Premier Marlaina Danielle Smith – sorry, but who could resist? –
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Some Meds that Might Help
A new PrEP for Covid! Invivyd got FDA approval for Pemgarda, or pemivibart and formerly VYD222, to be used as Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Covid, specifically for adults and adolescents with moderate-to-severe immune compromise. Of course it made their stock jump dramatically. They expect it to be available imminently (see
Continue readingmark a. rayner: Time travel is human nature
Time travel has been on been on my mind lately, and in that context, nostalgia. As someone who meditates, and who, at one point, was… The post Time travel is human nature appeared first on mark a. rayner.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: it’s not gonna work, Jew haters
What’s that old military saying? You know you’re over target when you’re taking flak? That’s what the B-17 pilots used to say when flying over Europe on missions to bomb the Jew-haters in Hitler’s armies during World War Two. The most intense flak happens when flying directly over target. That
Continue readingLife...A Small Spark Between Two Eternities: Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2024-03-24 16:20:00
Never forget what Hamas did to this young paralyzed and wheelchair bound girl on Oct 7th. Ruth Perez, 17, who had muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy, was enjoying the music with her devoted father Erik, when hundreds of Hamas terrorists stormed the Nova Festival. The young girl, who was
Continue readingQueer-liberal: This week’s tonic: “ The Middle East and the Erosion of our Public Discourse” by Liberal MP Ben Carr
Winnipeg South Centre Liberal MP Ben Carr is one of many Liberals in the federal caucus torn between his strong support for Israel as an ancestral home for Jews the world over, and the horrors that country’s right-wing government and armies have inflicted on innocent Palestinian civilians in reaction to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – What if?
A new twist on the old story.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Canada is re-thinking Mulroney today. And maybe Poilievre, too
Canada is buzzing about Brian Mulroney’s funeral — so many profound, moving and memorable moments: Good God… when Marc Hervieux and Mulroney’s granddaughter Elizabeth Lapham stopped to let a recording of Brian Mulroney finish singing When Irish Eyes are Smiling — man, how moving. pic.twitter.com/Qr1YwfNk95 — Bryan Passifiume (@BryanPassifiume) March
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: The most important history lesson
Alberta’s pursuit of a new K-12 public school curriculum has been a long slog. An ambitious curriculum re-development project was initiated by a Progressive Conservative government in 2008. The project was continued by the NDP government after it defeated the Conservatives in 2015. With the defeat of the NDP in
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Ending fossil fuels benefits all
Many people in Canada are employed in fossil fuel industries. Were production of carbon-laden, climate damaging products to decline or end, many towns would be disrupted. However, quality of life would improve since toxic contaminants are by-products of oil, gas, and coal production. Overall employment would increase and stable populations
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: taxing in the rain
A rain tax. Seriously, they want to tax the rain. Before we get started on the latest insanity to, um, seep out of Toronto’s municipal government, let’s give credit where credit is due, shall we? For sheer gall, for its bottomless brazen brassiness, you can’t beat this one: a tax
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