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What doesn't kill you makes you weaker and more susceptible to killing next time. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 4, 2019
January 2019
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Doreen Nicoll makes the case to reinstate the basic income plan eliminated by Doug Ford in Ontario. Danielle Kurtz examines a few of…
Slavery Is Alive And Well
We like to think that we put an end to slavery one hundred and fifty years ago. But it’s alive and well — all over the world. Crawford Killian writes:…
The entitlement of being Alberta.
Have you ever felt the cold of Calgary in the loneliness of two AM walking about six city blocks from the Calgary Herald offices to your hotel? They said it…
On Capitalism’s Limitations
Every year, when we get to the part of my philosophy course where we read some Marx & Engels, and I ask for criticisms of the reading, like I do…
Jan. 3: Still quiet -but this could well be our decisive year.
Some good news for a change. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/02/north-atlantic-right-whales-canadian-waters______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/03/jamal-khashoggi-suspects-appear-before-saudi-court We will pass lightly over the fact that the Saudi prince who almost certainly ordered the killing is not being arrested. No.…
Far Right Losing Collective Mind Over Islamic Party of Ontario Attempt To Register As An Official Party
Imagine that a political party has emerged which condemns secularism and the separation of church and state, promotes the recriminalization of homosexuality, strong censorship of what it deems to be…
30,000 Twitter followers can’t be all wrong
…well, actually, they can be. But it is what it is, Twitter-wise.
TRUE TALES OF WARREN IN THE WILD
Lady approaches me at Shiatsu place. SHE: I love your hair! What do you do to hold it up? ME: Pardon? SHE: May I touch it? ME: Um, okay. She…
"More Mad Than People Think."
Why, with Trump, is it always the Russians? His latest stunt – absolving the Russians/Soviets of any wrongdoing for staging a military intervention in Afghanistan in support of its then…
What, the Toronto Sun? A Sun Columnist Says "a Pox on Both Their Houses."
Toronto Sun columnist, Lorrie Goldstein, says, when it comes to climate change, Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer are on the same page. Both leaders, he says, are trying to blow…
Think of Climate as a Finely-Tuned Engine Gone Screwy.
There was a time, we called it the Holocene, when the climate worked for us. A gentle, relatively predictable climate allowed humanity, over the course of 12-thousand years, to grow…
It’s Complicated. The Polar Vortex Fractures.
I would guess you’re not a meteorologist. Same here. The way climate change is unfolding, however, that would certainly be an asset. Most of us can understand that a warmer…
A Helluva Year
It looks like 2019 will be the worst year of Donald Trump’s life. As Lawrence Martin sees it, there could be six possible outcomes: We’ll start with his worst, a…
In 2019 Aim for Satisfaction Instead of Happiness
At the start of the year people make new goals for themselves, often those are about improving one’s life. This year instead of focusing on happiness as a goal you…
What Fools These Mortals Be!
We humans are a strange species. Despite access to almost unlimited information and data, far too many prefer to notice only what is front of them at the present moment,…
Ontario Liberalism: Part 1.
In the travel business, it is always best to choose where you are going first and then you choose the person to serve as guide. It just makes sense. It…
Mitigating Muskrat Falls: Ron, Harry, and Hermione are still baffled #nlpoli
Mitigating the impacts Muskrat Falls will have on taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador remains the single biggest unanswered question in the province nine years after the project started and the…
Brief late-evening message from premier signals departure of Calgary MLA and former cabinet minister Stephanie McLean
If there’s an Alberta version of what used to be known as a “Kremlinologist,” they’ll be puzzling over yesterday evening’s social media announcement by Premier Rachel Notley about the departure…