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April 2017
Saturday Photo: First Walk in the Cemetery in a Long While
Beautiful day today. Almost certain that it will eventually be spring! This morning I took a walk in the Mount Royal Cemetery for the first time since the fall–in the…
Another One Gone – CanProg
Canadian Progressive Voices, aka CanProg, is gone. Lauralee and her partners concluded it was no longer economic to continue. There were a few important bloggers who had become CanProg affiliates.…
They Can’t Go Home Again
Andrew Nikiforuk believes that Donald Trump is a symptom, not a cause. Drawing on the work of Nafeez Ahmed, he writes: The world faces not a “clash of civilizations” with…
Ready, Aye Ready
That noble motto of the Royal Canadian Navy can now perhaps perversely be described as the modus vivendi of Justin Trudeau in his ongoing efforts to get on the right…
“You don’t say, Mr. Spicer!”
On the wall above our computer is an old framed black and white Frank & Ernest cartoon with four characters in the wigs and knee-britches of the colonial period. One…
Musical interlude
Kyoto Skies – Homesick
The Surprising Things I Learned About My Mom When She Moved
It seems like my Mom has been moving for months. It feels like over the past while, my sister and I have been operating in semi-crisis mode with our mother.…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jordan Brennan and Kaylie Tiessen write that it’s long past time to set a level of federal revenue sufficient to support the social…
Eating up the Hill: These fish tacos were a mess
Fish tacos have been on the parliamentary cafeteria menu for some time, but it never really occurred to me to order them until, while in line one day at the…
Rafe Mair: How Liberal myths about the NDP distort BC’s political history
Christy Clark (Province of BC/Flickr and John Horgan (BCNDP/Flickr) Let’s look at some political myths and near-myths. The BC Liberals are hammering away at the NDP, saying that the last…
Meanwhile in Other News From the Slave States
I can’t summarize this. You’re going to have to read it for yourself. What’s on offer? A North Carolina Republican who compares Lincoln to Hitler. North Carolina, the State that…
Anti-gay horrors in Chechnya need to be investigated and stopped!
Putra Kurniawan/EyeEm/Getty Images After various reports in minor media outlets or websites about this story, the Guardian has finally published about it. Still, questions remain: Just what is going on…
Trump Cannot Turn the Page
So let’s get this straight. The CIA and the FBI weren’t conspiring to surveil Donald Trump and his campaign advisors. European intelligence agencies – British, Dutch, Estonian and Polish in…
April 14: Time to wake up.
I have been having some very disturbing thoughts about Naziism, mass murder – and us. All of us. I’m confident of – if terribly disturbed at – what I have…
His Is Bigger Than Yours
Donald Trump has just dropped the Mother of All Bombs on Afghanistan. And a naval task force — aircraft carrier, destroyers and missiles — will soon drop anchor off the…
Great Canadian Pot
Yesterday, after a much anticipated election promise, Justin Trudeau and his administration officially announced that marijuana will become legal for sale and consumption throughout all of Canada…In July of 2018….…
Just Another Oil War
An article Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote more than a year ago shows how oil interests created ISIS. “The reverberations from decades of CIA shenanigans continue to echo across the…
Our Surveillance Society- Part 2
Another cop abusing a black man. Like yesterday’s post, this video shows a law enforcement network completely out of control: Recommend this Post