Donald Trump and the Road To Fascism
Donald Trump has been in an absolute frenzy all week, firing off more tweets than he ever has before. And never sounding more delusional and more dangerous. It all began…
June 2020
Picasso
A moment of Picasso drawing from Renoir’s Mystery of Picasso Also IMMENSELY enjoyed Wim wended,’s Salt of the Earth portrait of Sebastião Salgado this evening.
Racist Police Actions Well Established In Canada
Originally published by Dogwood Initiative. Their next mission? Punch another pipeline through Indigenous lands Canadians can shake our heads at police brutality in the United States, but the same…
June 6: The Worst of times.
Before Canadians get all virtuous about their virtue, they might want to look at their own history of racism. The early French settlers of Canada kidnapped native peoples to be…
Covid Journal, June 6, 2020
Trump continues to fan the flames of dissent in the United States and leaves the world scratching our heads when he declares ‘anti-fascists’ to be terrorists.
When a gun is not your tool
Wife Gwen, who’s practised as an RN for over 50 years, said much the same thing as the nurse in this Seattle demonstration. Perhaps it is time to disarm most…
749 Covid patients in Ontario – This is a crisis?
Ontario’s population is approximately 14.5 million, and there are about 500 hospitals scattered across the province. When lockdown and social distancing measures were introduced back in mid March of this…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Sheila Smith examines how private equity is hollowing out the real economy in the name of profit-taking. And Klaus Schwab suggests a “Great…
Despite COVID-19, 15,000 people join Fight for Equity rally against racism at Alberta Legislature
A mostly youthful throng estimated at more than 15,000 people braved the coronavirus pandemic yesterday evening to join the Fight for Equity rally against racism at the Alberta Legislature in…
Power Out
First power outage in weeks, and it’s lasted at least 10 minutes as of writing this. There was heavy rain this morning, but it let up quickly. Getting word that…
A Lesson In Empathy
In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus Finch famously tells his daughter Scout, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view ……
It’s time to call out denialism — on racism and on climate change
It’s time to call out denialism — on racism and on climate change By Greig Oldford | Opinion | June 4th 2020 Originally published by the National Observer Can…
Saturday Photo: Just What the Doctor Ordered…
I think I’ve used this photo before, but it deserves another look. Dandelions are supposed to be weeds, and I must admit that I try to keep them out of…
The End Is Nigh
Donald Trump calls himself the law and order president. That’s quite a stretch. Tony Burman writes that 2020 is beginning to look like 1968, when Richard Nixon branded himself the…
Shaving notes, again
It’s been a while since I wrote about shaving, so I thought it was time to bring that story up to date. If you wish to read my previous posts…
Anger does not begin to express what I’m feeling right now
On the very same day I could only go see my Mom at a distance – through iron bars, unable to hug her for months – some politicians decided to…
We are the world
Its been quite a week, hasn’t it? Even here in Saskatoon, the George Floyd rally on Thursday was attended by hundreds of people, all races and colours. And its been…
Musical interlude
PVRIS – You and I