Wednesday Night Cat Blogging
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I don't know how I managed to watch the whole debate. I had a splitting headache when it was over. But at least just seconds after it did finally end,…
Caregiving during Covid19 has put a huge, extra strain on caregivers. It’s hard enough walking the journey of illness or disability with someone you care deeply about, but the pandemic…
Canada’s NDP Jagmeet Singh The Team News More FR Jagmeet is a lawyer, a human rights activist and the Leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party. Jagmeet Singh grew up in…
Today is Orange Shirt Day, an important day on our collective calendar here in Canada. On this day we remember and honour the First Nations, Métis and Inuit children who…
The pandemic has been tough on many restaurants and other retail businesses — there are more than a few closed storefronts on Ottawa’s Bank Street. I’m happy to report though…
I’m sorry, but I have little patience today with those who are chirping that last night’s debate was a shock because it was divisive and ugly and hateful. Anyone who…
When I was young, a guy’s first car tended to be a real beater. As long as it was cheap and it ran, it was okay if it was on…
Democratic nominee Joe Biden speaks during the first United States presidential debate, September 29, 2020. Photo from Joe Biden’s Instagram page. Last night’s American presidential debate was not a debate.…
I am a political animal and I normally really geek out on events like last night. Normally Presidential Debates in the United States are much watch TV, dignified events and…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Chris Arnold reports on the many Americans facing the impossibility of paying for the necessities of life as supports run out in the…
There wasn’t a debate last night. Donald Trump blew up it up. Trump proved definitively that he is absolutely unfit for the office he holds. He was unfit when he…
Clifford Orwin argues in a Globe and Mail op-ed that both Republicans and Democrats are behaving hypocritically in their fight over filling the Supreme Court vacancy before the election. In…
Here in Toronto we’ve seen little to no changes in our urban space during the COVID-19 pandemic. Other cities have been closing streets and making more room for people while…
Clifford Orwin argues in a Globe and Mail op-ed that both Republicans and Democrats are behaving hypocritically in their fight over filling the Supreme Court vacancy before the election. In…
The quality of entertainment in America has gone down hill. By no stretch of the term ‘debate’ does one refer to an opponent as ‘that clown.’ Despite this egregious error,…
Some Boomers are flipping the (snow)bird to the public; Shouldn’t public bailouts be treated like investments instead?
Trump came to throw mud and heckle – be himself, in other words. He came to make Joe crack. Joe didn’t crack. He kept his cool. He won. FREE KINSELLIAN…
Rob Anders’ recent trouble with the law reminds us of the former Reform Party and Conservative MP’s past thoughts about the laws of nature. Twenty-one years ago, Mr. Anders made…
As the United States barrel towards an election which may very well decide the future of the democratic experiment in that country, extremists such as the Proud Boys (among others)…