I am also reminded of Star Trek season two, episode 15, The Trouble With Tribbles
IT'S A LIVING THING SEPARATING FROM THE HOST pic.twitter.com/6yYJqpe1j2 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 22, 2017
March 2017
A Sorbara story
Greg Sorbara was on Steve Paikin’s The Agenda last night on TVO. I was at Strombo’s place watching Against Me! play in Strombo’s living room, so I missed Steve’s show.…
The last walk
“You have to go to the pound. They have a Sheltie there.” Susan called me from work, her voice urgent. One of her clients had told her a Sheltie –…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday March 22, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. The property rights of common law spouses upon separation are…
Not Like His Father At All
A few days ago I posted a letter by Star reader Cathy Allen in which she discussed what it would take for her to regain her pride as a Canadian.…
A Pivotal Moment
Last week’s meeting between Donald Trump and Angela Merkel was — to put it mildly — awkward. Joseph Ingram writes: Take a close look at the body language on display…
Branding the PC’s Patrick Brown.
The Ontario Progressive Conservatives are trying to sell Patrick Brown. Since few Ontario voters know the Conservative Leader, they think it is important to introduce him. They call a recent…
How Chicago Became the First City to Make Reparations to Victims of Police Violence
The recent passage of historic reparations legislation in Chicago means black people who have experienced racial violence at the hands of the police can be granted reparations. The post How…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Surrounded cats.
Against Me! In Strombo’s living room! With me and Bjorn!
Wish Lisa and Emma could’ve been there, too – but they’re both in Ottawa. Yes, this was our official wedding dance song. Sing along! I don’t ever want to talk…
Napolitano Loses FOX Gig
On FOX they call him “the judge” or at least they did. That’s before Andy Napolitano planted in his president’s addled mind the notion that Britain’s CGHQ spy agency did…
Making Sense of Yesterday
Having endured the “Death by a Thousand Cuts” ordeal now known by the name “Watergate” I realize how difficult it can be to make sense of the significance and meaning…
Profits, Coercion, and Resistance in Latin America
Photo from PulitzerCenter.org An article published in Third World Quarterly in 2008 was our initiation into collaborative work on Canadian mining imperialism and the popular forms of resistance it systematically…
Shine a Light
If he hasn’t done anything else useful we can thank Donald Trump for finally shining a light on Russia’s dirty money. For years there have been stories about Cyprus and…
Behold The Allure of the Energy Megaproject
This article originally appeared on The Tyee. Imagine if you lived in a nice quiet community of about 30 people, and the Chinese government got permission to plunk a $20-billion…
The Con Clown Leadership Scandal Just Got Worse
In one of my last posts I wrote that the Con leadership race was starting to look like a crime story.And I suggested that it might be time to call…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jo Littler writes about the illusion of meritocracy, and how it has contributed to the unconscionable spread of inequality: Over the past…
This River is a Person in New Zealand Law
The Whanganui River its the first river to have the same legal stats as a person. The New Zealand federal government recently passed a bill granting the river legal personhood.…
This week’s column, now on HuffPo!
And Donald Trump’s words sure are coming back to haunt him, aren’t they? It’s beautiful. I wish him deep and everlasting misery and pain.