Sorry to be late by a full day. But keep those dollars rolling in.___________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/mosque-shooting-social-media-1.5058496 Cracking down on hate-making web sites sounds like a good idea. Alas! It’s not that…
Sometimes it’s the little stories that move us. Last week Mr and Ms Soapbox attended a fundraiser for Rachel Notley. It was hosted by a group of Calgary lawyers at…
Talk is cheap. If the Trudeau government is serious about stopping the spread of hate, here’s something they can do this week. Will they? (Oh, and one Minister was looking…
There’s nothing we do quite so well as to “lose the plot.” We lose our ability to understand or cope with things that are then flushed down the memory hole.…
Apparently the Conservative War Room for Hire has been reassigned from pushing the #LAVSCAM bullshit to putting out a self inflicted fire caused by Chuckles, welcoming the Yellow Jacketed racists…
Apparently the Conservative War Room for Hire has been reassigned from pushing the #LAVSCAM bullshit to putting out a self inflicted fire caused by Chuckles, welcoming the Yellow Jacketed racists…
Apparently the Conservative War Room for Hire has been reassigned from pushing the #LAVSCAM bullshit to putting out a self inflicted fire caused by Chuckles, welcoming the Yellow Jacketed racists…
A “control freak who lost control.” That is how the Observer’s chief political correspondent sums up prime minister Theresa May who now finds herself neck deep in the quagmire known…
Upcoming program change: for three reasons – the mass murder committed by a white supremacist New Zealand and its fallout; upcoming legal action against the racist Your Ward News in…
Looks like a perfect pair. I’m not sure this rises to the level of a genuine scandal. CBC seems to think otherwise. Mother Corp breathlessly reports that these two, Jason…
In my decade and a half in volunteering and working on political campaigns, I’ve been blessed to get to have many amazing experiences. Those experiences have taught me a lot…
I’m back with nature’s alarm clock, the barking of sea lions gathered on the rocky beach down the block. I only wish they would show a bit of respect and…
We don’t hear a lot about New Zealand. Peaceful, stable countries don’t tend to make the news. Tragically this week, Australia’s little brother was thrust into the world’s spotlight for…
Perhaps it’s just me, but with each passing day Jason Kenney reminds me a little more of Richard M. Nixon, the talented but deeply flawed American president who in 1973…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Robert Reich writes about the laughable spin that the Trump Republicans’ giveaways to the privileged and elimination of supports for the vast…
Friday’s global student protest brought me so much joy. And also sadness, because I often feel so cynical about our ability to stop climate change. And also hope, because I…
It has been instructive to watch the flip-flops Ontario’s Conservatives have done on the subject of the sex-ed curriculum. Martin Regg Cohen writes: Behold the politics of pedagogy, where the…
My responses to two thoughtful commenters over on Twitter, below. First one is a thread, the second one isn’t. Thanks. Your thread was interesting. The issue, as I told my…
In a career of explaining computers to people, I always deferred to my brothers as to what it was all about. I had four brothers who, each in his own…
Recent events have brought the effect that ‘social media’ has upon our society, perhaps it is a good thing that a sick individual has shown that it is possible to…
