Tabitha Southey has a brilliant column in the Globe and Mail Hey, white person, imagine if you were stopped as though you were black : …Let’s imagine, for example, you’re being stopped and questioned by dry cleaners, and see how that goes.Dry cleaners approach you often. You get to know
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Cathie from Canada: #BlackLivesMatter but not in #ferguson
The failure to indict Darren Wilson is a travesty. By Langston Hughes: Ferguson: Chicago: Seattle: New York: Los Angeles: Washington: And in Toronto tomorrow
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Fantino "explains" government budgeting
So it has been revealed that Veterans Affairs had $1.1 billion dollars in unused funding over seven years. Now Veterans Affairs minister Julian Fantino is claiming that the Harper Con’s “balanced” budgets where not achieved at the expense of our veterans. He is minister-splaining the government budget to us ignorant
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Ferguson waits
Decision day in Ferguson will be Monday at the earliest | Toronto Star: “We’re living under a governor’s declared State of Emergency, we’re facing school closures, and we’ve got enough extra law enforcement here to make us all feel like enemies in our own country. And all over a process
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Sounds of silence
Just a note that I’m sorry for my silence this month. Some family stuff is keeping me busy, but also I am being distracted by technology — I now have a little tablet computer and I find I am using it more often during the day to check email and
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Misconduct charges cannot be anonymous
In my previous job, I was involved in dealing with accusations of misconduct. One of the basic principles of procedural fairness is that accusations cannot be taken seriously if they are anonymous. An accuser has to be willing to come forward before the charge can be dealt with and accused
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Follow-up
Just to follow up on my previous post, Annie Laurie provides links to discuss the Terrorist or Head Case? question.She notes this article from The New Yorker The Line Between Terrorism and Mental Illness In a world where “clash of civilizations” rhetoric is pervasive, it is possible that radical Islam
Continue readingCathie from Canada: It isn’t "terrorism", its mental illness
What Canada should always remember about Wednesday was the courage of our politicians — hearing a fusillade of gunfire right outside their meeting room, they armed themselves with flagpoles and prepared to defend Parliament and their colleagues against what they must have believed at the time to be an invading force.But to
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Saskatoon snatches defeat from the jaws of victory
So you might think that the reluctant LRB ruling both the transit lockout and the pension bylaw illegal would have provided the Saskatoon civic administration with a great opportunity to rethink their whole strategy with this labour dispute, and come up with something that would work better.But you would be
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Oh, the humanity
Happy thanksgiving everyone, though somewhat belated. The greatest line in television history: As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Playing with the big boys
I haven’t written anything about the Harper Cons enthusiastic support for Canada’s participation in Son Of Iraqi Freedom Part Deux because I haven’t really known where I stand on this.I can’t say I have thought it through still, but two things struck me today.First, Michael Den Tandt explains why Harper
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Yes, it is astonishing
The US Supreme Court basically ruled today that all those lower court decisions authorizing gay marriage in a number of states are constitutional.In celebration, Andrew Sullivan has written The Astonishing Actual History Of The Gay Rights Movement, from the despair of AIDS to today’s victory: Using the institutions and self-knowledge
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Field of dreams
Loved watching tonight’s ball game. There is no game but baseball where the team that wants it more can come back to win, even against a better opponent. KC may not get very far against the LA Angels, but you never know.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Our parliamentary secretary for short pants
The Harper Cons went just a little too far this week in demonstrating their disrespect for Parliament, and finally they got called on it by the Globe and Mail and Ottawa Citizen.So Paul Calandra apologized — he’s just such a passionate guy ya know and he couldn’t help himself and we
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Sad news
Such sad news today — the Canadian blogosphere has been informed that Skdadl and Pogge have both died.. Susan Kent Davidson (Skdadl) died yesterday, and Rob Hills (Pogge) in July — they had both blogged at Peace, Order and Good Government, Eh, which had gone dark lately and I didn’t
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Covering the Impact of the transit lockout
CBC Saskatoon is doing a good job covering the impact of the transit lockout. Today there are two stories — this one: Saskatoon transit lockout affects high school attendance: Of the more than 300 people that are registered students at Oskayak High School, more than half missed class on Wednesday…the
Continue readingCathie from Canada: What’s the rush, Saskatoon?
I guess the idea is because the city administration has failed to negotiate a contract, then City Council should just implement the pension changes by fiat.Yeah, that’ll calm things down.Saskatoon’s transit lockout experienced its first workday morning today.The next big story will be tonight’s so-called emergency city council meeting — when
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Checking out the People’s Climate Marches
Some memorable photos —New York city People’s Climate on Twitter: RT @JennaBPope @LeoDiCaprio ~ GO LEO! THX for hitting the street! #PeoplesClimateMarch #PeoplesClimate #NYC 9/21/14 pic.twitter.com/u4rrhxxRtz — Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) September 21, 2014 Sydney, Australia: Beyond Coal + Gas So happy to have been a part of #peoplesclimate in Sydney
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Saskatoon’s Press Release War has begun!
I see the first shot in the press release war between the city of Saskatoon and its bus union was fired by the city tonight when they locked out the bus drivers — likely we can expect to see an answer tomorrow from ATU Local 615.*I am totally annoyed about
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Defending our right to choose
The days when old men get to decide what a woman does with her body are long gone. Times have changed for the better. #LPC defends rights. — Justin Trudeau, MP (@JustinTrudeau) September 18, 2014 I’m glad to see Trudeau and the Liberal Party hit back hard against the so-called
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