I’m with Lloyd – the USA is not a safe third country right now
I enjoyed another fantastic Father's Day in the company of my children, but all the while I fought back tears whenever I heard more of the sordid tales of asylum…
2018
I’m with Lloyd – the USA is not a safe third country right now
I enjoyed another fantastic Father’s Day in the company of my children, but all the while I fought back tears whenever I heard more of the sordid tales of asylum…
A New And Better World
Thanks to Donald Trump, world alliances are being scrambled. Robin Sears writes that a new world order is appearing with each passing day: Already we have seen both Angela Merkel…
Days Like This
There are many days when I think that words no longer fork any lightning, and this blog would be more useful if I simply aggregated, without commentary, news items that…
Coast to Coast Artistic Billboards for Resilience in Canada
Resilience (English) from MAWA Programs on Vimeo. Thanks to the Resilience art project from now until August art is being shown on billboards from coast to coast in Canada. You…
how to help families separated at the u.s. border
As we all sit helplessly agog at the latest spectacle going on in the US, here are some organizations to which you can donate (or volunteer) to help. How To…
Chrystia’s Cassandra Complex?
Canada’s foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, might not be a fortune teller but she had more than a few truths for the Americans last week. Our only concern might be with…
Inside Trump’s concentration camps
These images were just released by border patrol @CBP showing the McAllen, Texas detention facility that we were allowed to tour today. For now, we can only rely on what…
Column: the new world disorder
LONDON – A G7 truth. British Prime Minister Theresa May, who lately knows a thing or two about unsubtle truths, offered up a perfectly English way of describing it all:…
Saskatchewan Catholic school funding case likely to drag on despite deadline; cabinet shuffle today in Alberta
You’d think the province of Saskatchewan would be almost out of time to figure out how to deal with a judge’s ruling last year that non-Catholic students may not receive…
Edson mosque set on fire; Islamophobes celebrate
A small mosque serving 15 families was the target of an arsonist on June 16 not long after evening prayers: The three people who were praying inside had left the…
Open letter to BC NDP
The recent revelations about the supposed “decision process” regarding continuing with Site C, as detailed by Sarah Cox, are totally unacceptable. The public now knows that there never was any…
Not Dead, Yet
Well, who knew that activating a new WordPress account for research purposes would unlock a long-forgotten old relic from the past like this? Five plus years ago suddenly seems like…
Oh, That Kind of Lawyer. Cohen Seems Ready to Roll.
It was reported last week that long time Trump fixer, Michael Cohen, was changing lawyers. At first word was that he wanted something a little downscale, less costly, someone who…
Is the Mooch Staging a Comeback
CBS News is reporting that Sarah Sanders Huckabee or Huckabee Sanders, whatever, and her understudy, Raj Shah, are looking to bail out of the asylum known as Donald Trump’s White…
Paris!
Ms Soapbox and her daughter have gone to Paris for a week. Take good care of the province and the country until we get back. What pops into your mind…
Homophobe Bill Whatcott Charged Under Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code
Looks like Bill Whatcott is having some legal problems: Whatcott provides more details on his own web forum regarding the charges: The response from Whatcott's supporters was as to be…
Now Even American Networks Are Using The C-Words
Will wonders never cease? For more analysis, watch this, from Global National. Start at the 11:30 mark: Recommend this Post
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Claire Connelly calls out the perennial right-wing spin that there’s always money available for corporations or the security state, but that anything…