Canada Day Greetings???
Question: When is a birthday greeting not a birthday greeting? Answer: When it comes from a hypocrite. Canadians will be receiving Happy Canada Day greetings from politicians at all levels…
June 2020
Public Health has failed us all
Over the last week, I have come to understand that the COVID 19 pandemic will be known as the worst North American public health failure ever. Here’s why: Remember five…
It’s a puzzlement …
These are difficult times. I know this because every second commercial on TV mentions ‘these difficult times’ (TDT). They are so difficult, in fact, that I just want to punch…
On exclusionary measures
Even as Scott Moe and his party have declared they’re determined to let people die on Saskatchewan’s streets for lack of funding, and warned that there’s nothing but further real…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Alex Hunsberger writes that the CERB may be a flashpoint in determining whether the cost of the coronavirus pandemic will be borne…
Honestly, I’m not missing Pride much this year
Lake Shore Blvd West in Toronto this past week Perhaps I’m just older now and don’t need the Pride festival to feel good about my sexual identity. Perhaps I’ve long…
With Age Comes Wisdom
But clearly, only for some: Recommend this Post
Full of passionate intensity
One day, when historians try to determine why coronavirus beat us at the start, statements like this will figure prominently. pic.twitter.com/JdihNUXdmW — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 28, 2020
Safety — Present and Future
Justin Trudeau is getting advice from Liberals of the Past. But he refuses to intervene in the Meng Wanzhow extradition case. Susan Delacourt writes: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is getting…
That horse has left the barn.
It was a presumptuous letter to the prime minister from some of our Canadian enlightened the other day about the Meng Wanzhou extradition case. There was a time when I…
Ecojustice vows to press ahead with legal action against Kenney Government’s environmental funding inquiry
While a date has not yet been set for a hearing, Ecojustice Canada Society is pressing ahead with the legal action it announced last September against the Kenney Government’s secretive…
Donald Trump’s Most Wonderfully Hellish Week
I feel like I've waited half my life to get a picture of Donald Trump as good as that one, for never have I seen him look so beaten.It sums…
When Justice Dies
It was 1924. The case before the court was R. v. Sussex Justices ex parte McCarthy. That case is famous for the maxim that “Justice most not only be done…
June 27:The world that is passing us by.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/27/obamacare-trump-covid-health-insurance Not to worry. The super rich will still be okay. God bless America, the land of the free…._________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/27/russia-offered-bounties-afghanistan-militants-killing-us-soldiers-report-outrage My goodness, how very unamerican. Oh – yes – the…
North Cowichan’s Municipal Forest Reserve Consultation A Flawed Process Rife With Secrecy.
Lack of information raises concerns about balance on Working Group guiding consultation on the Municipal Forest Reserve Vancouver consultant Erik Lees this week emphasized the importance of a “balanced” public…
OPINION – Systemic racism on display in House of Commons
Originally published by the Toronto Star OPINION Systemic racism on display in House of Commons By Fareed Khan The latest examples of systemic racism in Canada occurred last week…
I wish I had never, ever supported Kristin Raworth
More reasons why, seen in Licia Corbella’s important column today, found here. My post on Raworth, which you should also read, is here. In January 2018, an Alberta woman said…
what i’m reading: idiot wind, a memoir by peter kaldheim
One of the many wonderful things about working in a library is having access to such a wide variety of books. This has greatly broadened my choice of reading material.…