A Heavy Blanket Helps People with Anxiety and Insomnia
A good nights sleep can make a world of difference to one’s health, getting that sleep can be hard though. A simple solution can help those who need more slumber:…
October 2017
Cats and beasts #7
Filed under: art
The Fear and the Loathing in Donald Trump’s America
At times it seemed to me like Hunter S. Thompson had come roaring back from the dead, to write one more chapter of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.One where…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday October 3, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Do employees have different severance entitlements under the Employment Standards…
Us vs. Them
America debates if citizens should have machine guns. Toronto debates whether citizens should have chickens. Canada: better. #topoli #uspoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 3, 2017
American Violence and Donald Trump
In the wake of the horrific weekend in Las Vegas, Henry Giroux writes about American violence and the part Donald Trump plays in ginning it up: Violence, sadly, runs through…
Jagmeet Singh’s Leadership Success Points the Way Forward for Electoral Co-Operation Between Greens, NDP
Bramalea-Malton-Gore MPP Jagmeet Singh has been elected leader of the federal New Democratic Party, with a convincing first ballot win (53% of votes cast – more than 33 percentage points…
Americans bomb Bombardier.
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard and the prime ministers of both the United Kingdom and Canada are furious and have spoken out angrily about the proposed 219.6 per cent duty on…
On Betsy DeVos in Ontario
Betsy DeVos is coming to talk to the Minister of Education, apparently to learn about our schools. Let’s hope the meeting just goes in that direction. When she was first…
Karyn Draper, Running For Public School Trustee, Jumps Shark
Our readers already know who Karyn Draper, an supporter of the Calgary Street Church, Worldwide Coalition Against Islam, a dissident faction of the III% militia, and a host of other…
Gun violence is male violence
As I went to bed last night I wondered about the colour of the shooter’s skin, and what that would mean for how we labeled his actions and what we…
Jagmeet Singh will change federal politics and Canada for the good
New NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh Just a short note to express my happiness with Jagmeet Singh’s resounding victory in the federal NDP leadership yesterday. I did have a sense a…
Tom Petty, RIP
Almost 30 years ago, I drove down from Ottawa to TeeDot to see the Replacements open for him. The ‘Mats were drunker than skunks, comme toujours, but I spotted Petty…
The Malignancy Devouring America
The Guardian editorial today explores the horror that permeates America and the horror story, its president. The mass shooting of a concert crowd in Las Vegas is deeply shocking. It…
Prayer isn’t stopping the violence
An acerbic piece in Maclean’s Magazine from June had the title “America’s mass delusion.” The subtitle read, “Surprisingly, the strategy of praying to God is not stopping the mass shootings…
Tom Petty, Dead at 66.
Legendary rock star, Tom Petty, has died of cardiac failure, age 66. In December, Petty told Rolling Stone that he thought this would be the group’s last tour together. He…
There’s Nobody in the Wheelhouse. SS America is Being Steered from Below Decks.
Robert Reich on America’s absentee president. …he’s not actively governing the United States. That work is happening elsewhere—in Congress, the courts, the Fed, the career civil service, lobbyists, and in…
Hedges’ Eulogy for Imperial America
Farewell, American Empire. The American empire is coming to an end. The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion around the globe.…