Author: Cathie from Canada

I have been feeling pretty gloomy latey about the state of politics, here and in the United States. Then yesterday David Moscrop gave us this piece on substack — Does Something Feel Off To You? — and it rang a bell for me:  …In the last few months, I’ve been

Like everyone, I have been following the uproar with House of Commons speaker Anthony Rota and his ineptitude in hosting and applauding Yaroslav Hunka, who as a WW2 Ukrainian teenager was fighting for the Nazis against the Russians.  When this first hit the news, I thought “Doesn’t anybody know history

Apparently Musk is going to try to start charging for his platform.   He simply doesn’t understand Twitter at all – he never did. Its like a pulp and paper company thinking it can collect a nickel from everyone who reads advertising handout flyers.  If he tries to charge us all

As Samwise says, Well, I’m back!  Lately I have been trying to figure out why everything in American politics has become such a shit-show — the Trump disaster, abortion rights, LBGTQ rights, Jan 6 prosecutions, watching Republicans try to destroy Hunter Biden for the crime of his dad being president,

Sorry, I have to pause on posting for a little while.  I’ll be back.  

I found both of these posts so shocking.  The first one is a reminder about AIDS and how only within the last 20 years has our society learned to respect gender identity and gender expression.  Post by @beingliberal View on Threads The AIDS crisis was a terrible time – and

Threads is finally available on a desktop and it has an “embed this post” button! So I am trying it out with this post — I really really hope I can use it in addition to “X, formerly known as Twitter” for my posts.  X seems to be a dying

Like Arthur Clark said way back when on possibility of extraterrestrial life in the universe: “We’re either alone, or we’re not. And either way you look at it, it’s staggering.” — Dame Kerrin ☮ – Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 (@Barking52731887) August 25, 2023 What a stupid week it has been!  First,

I’ve read a number of great substack articles and tweet threads recently by Hamilton Nolan, Dale Smith, Evan Scrimshaw, Robert Reich, and Oliver Willis, among others (and Pogo, of course). But first, I have to start with this great tweet thread by a tweeter calling herself Aurelia Cotta: RW and

Funny stuff: How to lure me to my death pic.twitter.com/X0sVRGJOWK — Hermeshuns 🤍 (@hermeshuns) August 13, 2023 I saw these on Bluesky: (Read more…)Moving on to US politics, its clear that Republicans just can’t quit him, can they? frog ponders what the swim would have been like if the scorpion hadn’t stung

I don’t think there is anything more terrifying than a wildfire.  If Canadians are now beginning to grasp the magnitude and imminent danger of climate change, then it is this terrible Canadian fire season that has done it.  Today’s Canadian fire news is bad, and its getting worse — Yellowknife

Well, the news has been so crazy lately there is only one way to make sense of it — with political cartoons. Here’s some: My @TinyviewComics cartoon published 7/13/23. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #weather #heat #storms #floods #wildfires #pollution #environment Support cartoonists by subscribing: https://t.co/nTA2r3Qrmm pic.twitter.com/czSzjMzJYL — Rob Rogers (@Rob_Rogers) August 13,

I was going to do a post about Poilievre and his stumbles tonight, but then I saw posts about rescues of animals in Hawaii — and they are so much more important right now.  Woman finds her cat amid the charred ruins of the Maui fires in Lahaina. Photo: Moses

Here’s someone every Canadian should be following — Canadian historian Craig Baird’s X (twitter) feed (and the dogs in parliament AI photo above is from Craig’s post here) Today in 1928, Ethel Catherwood won Gold at the 1928 Olympics in the High Jump. She was one of the Matchless Six, a

Here is Trudeau’s follow-up to the Barbie post that drove Canada’s right wing crazy (and Piers Morgan) Balancing things out: Oppenheimer with Ella. pic.twitter.com/MdcZlhDwaG — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) August 9, 2023 Ha ha! Study: Being hated by Piers Morgan, Jordan Peterson et al. most likeable thing about Justin Trudeau https://t.co/mCfxOEG5FJ

  Seems like its been one of those crazy weeks, so I found some interesting comments to share. First,Trump just cannot seem to shut up, and everyone is down for it:  Everyone is entitled to my own opinion – Holy shit Donald Trump’s reckless mouth is going to land him

My keyboard driver died. Who knew such a thing could happen?  So now I have an inexpensive keyboard plugged into my laptop and its working just fine. But trying to fix it before giving up was three hours of my life that I’ll never get back.  I intended to write

Yesterday I read another media demand for the Trudeau government to undertake another “public inquiry” and I’m afraid this is getting to be too much.  First, the drumbeat to investigate foreign interference – especially by China — in Canadian elections has become so loud it drowned out Governor-General Johnson’s May

Starting in the evening of July 30, until dawn July 31, may be the best chance to catch a glimpse of the Southern Delta Aquariids meteor shower, as long as the moon doesn’t get in the way. This Smithsonian photo shows the Aquariids over Mount St. Helen’s (photo by Diana

One of the things that Twitter used to do — though sometimes neither thoroughly nor well — was to let everyone keep up with things in a general way.  For example, we used to be able to scan relevant news and views about relevant issues, without needing to read a