A Puff of Absurdity: The Art of Helping

“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

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Queer-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,

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Warren 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

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Alberta 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

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