“A little learning is a dang’rous thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,And drinking largely sobers us again.” ~ Alexander Pope Is it, though? We’re in a mental health crisis and people need more access to help. How much learning is necessary to help
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: HAPPY FATHER’S DAY
What I love about Father’s Day (and all the other special days of the year) aside from the fact that it’s an excuse not to write about politics, is it allows us to focus on family. In the Soapbox household we always celebrate special days (except Christmas) on Saturdays. So
Continue readingQueer-liberal: Today’s reminder: “No pride in occupation’: queer Palestinians on ‘pink-washing’ in Gaza conflict”
“No pride in occupation’: queer Palestinians on ‘pink-washing’ in Gaza conflict” Lots of privileged, centrist and conservative queers in the powerful West love to pretend Israel is a beacon of queer acceptance in the Middle East. This helps prove Israel’s civility, they claim, ignoring facts to the contrary. Not quite,
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Poo in the water — ethical pension fund investments not a priority
Over 40 percent of Thames Water, a troubled utility company in the United Kingdom, is owned by OMERS and BCI. These are two of Canada’s biggest public pension fund managers. The British utility is facing regulatory scrutiny and penalties for sewage leaks that require a financial bailout. Investors refused a
Continue readingLife...A Small Spark Between Two Eternities: McGill encampment to host anti-Israel ‘revolutionary youth summer program’
‘We pledge to education the youth of Montreal,’ notes an Instagram post promoting the program, accompanied by an image of men wearing keffiyehs and clutching machine-guns National Post
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – God Is Great!
Seems magical enough to me… 🙂
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Who funds think tanks, and why?
An organization in the United Kingdom aims to identify funders of think tanks that work to influence public policy. While the group’s focus is on the UK, it is a safe bet that political operatives and large organizations use their financial resources to achieve similar objectives in Canada and other
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: hate on tape
It’s the tale – the tell – of the tape. You’d think after Rodney King, the anti-Israel cabal would know: everyone carries a camera and a camcorder in their pocket, these days. And, if you do something bad – cursing at an elderly Jewish woman, say, or vandalizing a sign
Continue readingLife...A Small Spark Between Two Eternities: A fresh glimpse at the Hamas rapists the left holds up as heroes
If there is a shard of decency left in this world, let it be for the Israeli women still undergoing unimaginable horrors National Post We know that these women were taken as “sabaya” — a term referring to sex slaves in fundamentalist Islam — regarded as a just and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: There Should Be No Sacred Castes in Society.
Yep, no one in society gets a pass from being critiqued and their actions in society being observed. The transgender cult’s sacred status has crumbled in Europe but remains mostly intact here in North America. That status needs to be removed at once and the light of honest inquiry and
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Father’s Day.
One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. Twenty years ago right about now, my brother Kevin called me from Kingston General Hospital to tell me that our father
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Danielle Smith says she wants to skim Heritage Fund investment revenues to ‘de-risk’ fossil fuel investments lenders won’t touch
Danielle Smith says she wants to skim off investment income from the province’s famously mismanaged Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund to prop up oilpatch investment ideas so bad they can’t get financial support from conventional lenders. University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). As Alberta’s premier
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Gareth Emery & Emma Hewitt – Take Everything (Standerwick Remix)
Continue readingQueer-liberal: Ontario Catholic School Boards putting hatred ahead of student safety – It’s time to shut them down for good
I’ve long been on record opposing Ontario’s two-tiered public education system. In Ontario, we all inherited the status quo which consists of publicly funded schools for the general public and a separate system of publicly funded schools just for Roman Catholics. There are no publicly funded school systems for
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Post of the Day: June 14, 2024
#LegalPostoftheDay: The Supreme Court Upheld Broad Abortion Pill Access #law #legal #legalnews via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/4sd7a8td – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Best Explanation of Reagan’s Neoliberal Policies
Just this from xeviuniverse. Here’s the link in case embedding doesn’t work. @xeviuniverse I didnt have time to cover all the other vomit inducing things he did ♬ original sound – Xevi
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Feeding At The Trough
Those who read this blog with any regularity likely know that I am not an ideologue. While I consider myself progressive, it does not mean that I am blind to the faults of either the Liberals or the NDP. And it is about a member of the latter that
Continue readingWise Law Blog: This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from July 22, 2012 via Wise Law Blog
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from July 22, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Scalia, Textualism and The Interpretive “Rule of the 18th Century Brits” https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/07/scalia-textualism-and-interpretive-rule.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
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