Stuck Between Fear and Hope
Graham Saul was on TVO’s The Agenda: “We need a better narrative to motivate us towards change. We need to be dragged from our ethical fog. The best leaders we…
November 2018
Now That’s It’s Over for Another Year
Today is a stat holiday, Remembrance Day, and the malls are sure to be swamped with those getting a head start on their holiday shopping. I posted nothing on Remembrance…
New Dark Ages is out!
The X Gang face off with Earl Turner, a presidential candidate straight out of their nightmares in the second book of the #XGang trilogy, New Dark Ages by @kinsellawarren. Available…
Eating OFF the Hill: Centretown Donair & Pizza
While I did sample several authentic Halifax donair while I was there last spring, word on the street was there’s a place in Ottawa that offers the nearest thing you…
Review: Bored and Brilliant
Some time last year, the realization crystallized for me that I don’t experience much direct loss of explicitly designated work time due to social media or other online activity, but…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of November 12, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 12, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Toronto judge considering case of man accused of advocating genocide, promoting hate…
Trumpian Contempt
The President of the United States likes to trumpet his support for the military. But this past weekend, Max Boot writes, Trump showed his contempt for the military: On Saturday…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Wayne Swan writes that it won’t be possible to take necessary steps to combat climate breakdown without ensuring that corporations pay their fair…
MEETING FEAR WITH COURAGE IN CAREGIVING
I was speaking with a friend today about fear in caregiving. The fear that we might forget something very important, the fear that dismissing a symptom now could provoke a…
Rent Strikes Gaining Popularity
Last year a community in Toronto launched a rent strike and won! This initiative to ensure affordable housing (and not being verbally abused by landowners) worked for the involved residents;…
“Wasn’t That a Party?”
The Rovers got it wrong when they wrote a song about the party. It was certainly not the whiskey or the gin that is doing in the liberal party. It…
November 12th, 1918
“If the Allies at the peace table at Versailles had not imagined that the sweeping away of long-established dynasties was a form of progress, and if they had allowed a…
Considering Carpay’s Folly: Why can’t Alberta Conservatives stay away from the Lake of Fire?
Why can’t Alberta conservatives learn to stay away from the Lake of Fire? This is a question for the ages. Latest to bathe in the scalding waves of the fiery…
Shifting the Climate Change Conversation from the Possible to the Necessary
Credit where it’s due: Earlier this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the federal plan to price carbon pollution for provinces like Ontario that refused to adopt provincial pollution pricing…
Two Minutes on Novermber 11th
Today is the 100th anniversary of the end of hostilities in the Great War. Canadians will mark this day as they have for the last century with two minutes* of…
Banned in Britain
British grocer, Iceland, released its Christmas ad/video. Iceland said it would remove palm oil from all of its own-brand foods, the first UK supermarket (a grocery store chain) to do…
Winter Sale at Kersplebedeb Leftwingbooks.net!
It’s that time of year again — Kersplebedeb Leftwingbooks.net has put dozens of books on special, for a limited time only! This is in addition to free shipping within North…