What is science? It’s not this stuff.
Recently in a Facebook post, two of us were squabbling in typical Facebook-fashion over “alternative medicine” and related treatments (many of which came into the discussion as links to pseudoscience…
January 2019
An Immigrant? Nope…
Florida man charged with premeditated murder after bank shooting left 5 women dead
Yes, Doug Ford, we know your friends like you, but…
The CFIB does not care about the interests of the average Ontarian.
A Tale of Two Austerities
Photo by William Murphy The greatly intensified austerity that has been imposed in the UK since 2010 has been looked to with considerable approval by right wing imitators. Among countries…
Tech Giants Funding Climate Denial
Microsoft and Facebook and Google threw money into a “LibertyCon” convention along with Heritage Institute , and other climate change denial orgs.
Neo-Nazis GUILTY on both counts!
This is historic. Guilty of promoting hate against Jews – and, historically, against women. Victory!
Ford follows Forrest.
Remember the famous line from the blockbuster film: Forrest Gump? It was “Stupid is as stupid does.” The point was that stupid people keep on doing stupid things because that…
Verdict: 10am today, courtroom 501, College Park Courts, 444 Yonge St.
Proud of my wife, too, that *she* was the one who pushed the police, almost three years ago, to lay charges against these creeps for promoting hatred against women. This…
Jason Kenney then and Now: UCP critics face abuse now, unlike a certain critic of PC housing allowances back in 1992
Public anger at politicians who bill taxpayers for their living expenses when in reality they live close to their work is nothing new in Alberta. Abusive attacks on their critics,…
Thanks to Doug Ford, Hydro One slapped with $103 Million U.S. Penalty…
Hydro One and Avista Corp. say they have agreed to cancel their planned merger. They say under the terms of the merger agreement, Hydro One must now pay Avista $103…
Michael Harris Surfaces – in The Tyee
He’s one of Canada’s best progressive pundits and, after a long run at iPolitics, he seemed to disappear. Only he didn’t. Michael Harris is back. In The Tyee he writes…
All my journalist friends need to read this
Read, read it.
Neo-Nazi shut down
Finally, by Twitter. Only took a million complaints by some of us for about three years. It’s long overdue but it’s good news. And, hopefully, it’s the start of something…
Rule # 1
The first rule – don’t entrust the vulnerable and helpless to the unsupervised care of guys who look like this: He’s practical nurse, Nathan Sutherland, now under arrest for raping…
When Homes for Autonomous Seniors Aren’t Safe
Today is the fifth anniversary of a terrible fire in a Quebec seniors’ home. On the night of January 23, 2014, The Residence du Havre nursing home in L’Isle-Verte, Quebec,…
Witness Tampering, Mr. Trump?
Michael Cohen has postponed his scheduled appearance to testify before Congress. The reason? His attorney, Lanny Davis, puts it down to “ongoing threats against his family from President Trump.” That…
Nothing Makes a Petro-State Cringe More Than the Truth
Canada is a petro-state. The US is a petro-state. So too are Mexico, Venezuela, Nigeria, Iran, Iraq and many of the Gulf States. If there’s one thing the petro-states can’t…
Today at Weston Collegiate!
There were young lions there, this morning. Watch out, racists and bigots. Today was amazing @kinsellawarren visited @WestonCI to speak about combating hate, his books, and about his court proceedings…