On Missing the Girls
“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen (Everyone’s using that bit today,…
2016
Before the Trump Dark Ages begin in earnest
…here’s my new credo. Don't tell me to accept the result. Don't tell me it'll be fine. Don't tell me he didn't mean any of it. Don't tell me we…
Put an End to Funding TVO (because of this dreck …)
So, according to Andray Domise of the TVO (an Ontario-funded public broadcaster), “I don’t much care where progressive Americans go, so long as they stay the hell out of Canada”.
SFH defy Trump
Not many nice things were said about the president-elect last night. The best part was when we led the assembled hundred or so in a chant of “f**k Trump.” Wish…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Friday November 11, 2016. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
Fake news on Facebook: what they could do to fix the dust cloud of misinformation
Fake news played a pretty significant role in influencing opinion on the recent US election, which, I note, has not gone unnoticed here in Canada. The Guardian had an interesting…
Remembering My Father Today
Today is Remembrance Day in Canada, Veteran’s Day in the United States. Today I remember my father, James Edward Thomson, who fought in Europe with the Royal Montreal Regiment and…
The Darkness of Trumpland and the Light of Resistance
It sure is dark out there. The darkness of Trumpland is truly upon us.On a day when we honour our Canadian soldiers who died fighting the fascists.On a day when…
Sometimes The Difference Is Insanity
The United States has Donald Trump and we have Dr. Kellie Leitch. Leitch likes to burnish her medical credentials. But that doesn’t impress Alan Freeman: Apparently, we were all supposed…
People are not lab rats.
There is no question but that we have a high regard for former Senator Hugh Segal. But for God’s sake Hugh, you have got to stop treating people as laboratory…
11.11
Anthem for Doomed Youthby Wilfred OwenWhat passing-bells for these who die as cattle? — Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out…
Remembrance Day 2016
Captain Nichola Goddard -srbp-
RIP Leonard Cohen
Words that feel especially poignant right now. Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the…
Thinking of my grandfather, the Canadian Army Engineer
On the eve of Remembrance Day I am thinking of my maternal grandfather, Lawrence Anthony Bradley, who served as an engineer with the Canadian Army in England during the Second…
Leonard Cohen, poet, musician, 1934-2016
But you’ll be hearing from me, baby, long after I’m gone I’ll be speaking to you sweetly From my window in the Tower of Song … The post Leonard Cohen,…
Thinking of my grandfather, the Canadian Army Engineer
On the eve of Remembrance Day I am thinking of my maternal grandfather, Lawrence Anthony Bradley, who served as an engineer with the Canadian Army in England during the Second…
‘You Want It Darker’– Leonard Cohen, Singer, Writer, Poet-Dead at 82
Singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen died on Thursday at age 82, the Rolling Stone reports. Sony Music Canada, Cohen’s label wrote in a Facebook post: It is with profound sorrow…
David Suzuki: Extinction crisis signals that it’s time to change course
A new comprehensive report points to a potential human-induced wild-animal population “extinction crisis unlike any since dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.” David Suzuki helps us make sense of it…
Has Trump Committed Treason?
The National Observer’s Sandy Garrosino, journalist, entrepreneur and former Crown Attorney, certainly thinks so. America, you have been plunged into crisis, and so has the entire world. Do not normalize…