How To March Out Of The Darkness of Trump’s America
Another day in Trump's America. Another horrible massacre of the innocent.Brought to you this time by this Nazi loser.So soon after another loser was caught mailing pipe bombs all over…
October 2018
Razzle Dazzle ‘Em: Part One
“Give ‘em the old Razzle Dazzle…how can they see with sequins in their eyes?” —Richard Gere as a corrupt criminal lawyer in the musical Chicago Prepare to be razzle dazzled!…
Anti-Semitism on the rise in Canada
Watch to the end.
Deluged by fraudsters
Remember something called a ‘land line’? In the days before cellular telephone machines, a land line was simply called a telephone, because there was no other option. Today, none of…
Michael Harris – Why Andrew Scheer is Unfit to Become Prime Minister
In his latest piece for iPolitics, Michael Harris writes that “Scheer’s promise to stand up to media an absurd and shabby fundraising ploy.” Does he think ‘Andrew Trump’ will sell…
Oct. 28: After the disaster – to several more disasters
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/franklin-d-roosevelt-speaks-of-four-freedoms As November 11 approaches, it’s important to remember what we told Canadians they were fighting and dying for in World War Two. And Freedom of Speech was top of…
In Irish News, Sinead O’Conner Is Now a Hindu
You read it here first. Ireland’s favourite bad girl has moved on.
Even Forbes Has Had Enough of "Trump’s Psychology of Hate." Trump, the Terrorist President.
According to an article in Forbes, it’s beyond doubt that Trump’s psychology of hate was the MAGAbomber’s inspiration. The article is penned by Forbes contributor, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, Todd…
The Professors’ Revolt
94 prominent British academics, including the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, have signed an open letter condemning the British government for breaking faith with the British people. …we will…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – CBC News examines the state of consumer debt in Canada. Jake Johnson writes that despite the growing recognition of inequality as an…
Canadian Jewish News on the neo-Nazi death threats trial
Here: …hearings in the current case , after several days of testimony and argument. James Sears, the editor-in-chief of YWN, and LeRoy St. Germaine, its publisher, are facing charges of…
Our Civic Health Is In Danger
Howard Fineman has been around for a long time. He has reported and commented on American politics for decades. He grew up in Pittsburgh, in the very synagogue which was…
Let’s have ‘Whack-a-Mole’ voting.
Blame Chantal Hébert. The other day she described the voting reform question as a whack-a-mole game. It just keeps popping up and needs to get a whack. The only reason…
i need a canada for my subconscious: the kavanaugh hearings and we go on
I avoided the Kavanaugh hearings as long as I could. I used to take a special interest whenever survivors go public. I’d read everything I could, write letters to newspapers,…
Extreme Rhetoric Results in Political Violence: Pipe Bombs and Mass Murder
Given the events of today especially as well as the preceding days, to write that it has been a bad week would be a horrible understatement. On October 22, a…
Musical interlude
Frou Frou – Let Go
Domestic Terrorism on the Rise Across the Hateful States of America – and It’s Mainly Right-Wing
The United States continues to experience domestic terrorism incidents that are Islamic-related but two-thirds of the country’s terrorism attacks are homegrown and the product of right-wing extremism. Or, as we…
"Screw Your Optics, I’m Going In"
Another incident of domestic terrorism in the Hateful States of America. This time a synagogue in Pittsburgh. Eight dead plus about a dozen wounded. True to course, the killer was…