These are my comments from the debate on the motion presented Monday night. Much of it comes from my earlier postion ‘Accessible Spaces for Everyone’ below. You can watch/listen to…
Thousands join a Black Lives Matter protest in Vancouver, May 30, 2020. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. It has been a horrific and brutal diversion. From the cable news carpet-bombing coverage…
Over the past couple of weeks we have seen millions of people come together around the World to march against racism. The fallout from the murder of George Floyd has…
Demonstrators march in Paris to protest against the head of the National Front (FN), Marine Le Pen. The city as a way of dwelling in the world has not always…
Acacia Mining (formerly African Barrick Gold plc) is Tanzania’s biggest gold producer and operates three major mines in the country—Bulyanhulu, Buzwagi (pictured) and North Mara. Image courtesy of Acacia Mining.…
Here is a how-to lesson: “Everybody’s trying to shame us.” pic.twitter.com/T1ISTiZpEe — Rex Chapman?? (@RexChapman) June 9, 2020 Recommend this Post
Paul Krugman always has a good take on what is happening in the United States and — because we are close neighbours — what is happening here. That is most…
Running away to join the circus is dream many kids have. In Cambodia joining the circus can be the best thing a kid can do, and they don’t need to…
That’s certainly how it is in my family.
For almost three months Canadians had quarantined their humanity out of fear of the novel coronavirus. When funerals were cancelled hardly a peep was heard, little concern expressed for those…
One of the bees in my bonnet has long been the misuse of the term civilian to describe people who are not sworn police officers. I wrote the post below…
Cat introductions.
Canada’s response to the novel coronavirus, like much of the world, was based not so much on science as on computer generated model predictions. Predictions of 200,000 people dying with…
Americans have been murdering Blacks for over 150 years. Street gangs quite publicly and with general support even broke into jails to pull out Black prisoners to hang them or,…
Kenneth Chan Daily Hive Jun 9 2020 The closure of Stanley Park’s local roads to private vehicles will end in late June or early July. The Vancouver Park Board closed…
The new empire we live under is a global neofeudal corporate imperialism, which is now morphing into fascism, to be precise. It is systemically racist, self-deluded, and culturally arrogant in…
Do you know how and why the little black boy, Franklin, came to join the Peanuts comic strip? I didn’t know until a few minutes ago. Shulz had to buck…
Justin Trudeau takes a knee during a rally against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, June 5, 2020. Still image from YouTube.…
The WHO is, that’s who. A fucking farce. Here.
