Fauci Says, We’re In This For Another year
When it comes to Covid-19, we’ve shown ourselves to be a pretty reckless bunch. Trump wants to persuade voters that he’ll have it wrapped up shortly after the election. Plenty…
September 2020
Another Trump/Stone/Manafort Gopher Bursts Into Flames
He was a frequent guest on MSNBC panels, a weasel who dutifully tried to defend Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and, above all, Donald Trump. Michael Caputo somehow rose to become…
cpmvfsgu day 5: victoria to salt spring island
I am having the surreal experience of looking through photographs of the wildfire devastation in Washington State, Oregon, and California, and seeing the names of towns where much of my…
Eating off the Hill: Gongfu Bao’s fried chicken bao
Lest you think after my last post that I’m on a very unhealthy fried chicken kick, this lunch was from a few weeks ago. And I wouldn’t put it in…
Never Surrender
I pray the more pessimistic among us, who have warned us, such as Orwell and Huxley and many others, are wrong. We must, in any event, do everything in our…
Saturday Photo: Good Crop of Umbrellas This Summer
Well, it rained a lot here in August, so obviously these folks were on the case. The umbrella stayed there for a couple of weeks, during the worst of the…
Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada, by Samir Shaheen-Hussain
available from leftwingbooks.net An exploration of anti-Indigenous systemic racism in Canadian health care, medical violence inflicted upon Indigenous children, and the medical establishment’s role in colonial genocide. Launched by healthcare…
Doing A Woodward
Roger Cohen — who is recovering from COVID — catalogues all the things “you know” about Donald Trump: You know that ego could not resist 18 interviews with Bob Woodward,…
Sept 22: Confronting Medical Violence: Conversations to Decolonize Healthcare
This panel will discuss the history and ongoing medical colonialism that perpetuates anti-Indigenous racism in healthcare About this Event Fighting for A Hand to Hold exposes the Canadian medical establishment’s…
Toots, RIP
I am so, so down about this. What a giant of an artist. What a genius! Seeing him a few years ago with my Jamaican brother Karl – it was…
Voting for delusion
As I read this short piece at No More Mister Nice Guy, I felt increasingly horrified: It’s often said that Trump’s approach to everything is “transactional.” I think Trump’s approach…
Impressionists were people too.
www.youtube.com/watch Loving this series. Especially the biographical and historical evident in this episode.
Why I Want Trudeau’s Throne Speech To Trigger An Election
The other day I went out for a bike ride, and at the end of my street came across Justin Trudeau. He was attending an event to announce a new…
The Left Coast Isn’t All Blue
While the western states are predominantly Democrat-leaning, Republicans control a lot of territory in the central and eastern regions. That includes parts of Oregon currently beset by wildfires. The state…
Musical interlude
Deftones – Ohms
Visionless
Shorter Trudeau Liberals last month, trying to justify shutting down Parliament and setting up a game of Parliamentary chicken over a throne speech: It’s absolutely vital that we talk about…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Lance Taylor summarizes his new book documenting how and why U.S. inequality has ballooned over the past few decades. And Heather Scoffield writes…
Covid Journal, Sept 11, 2020
Canada’s Residential Schools – Hard to Watch, But Necessary I enrolled with the University of Alberta’s ‘Indigenous Canada’. Every Canadian should take the time to review these videos and content.…
Alberta takes over as Canada’s political Crazytown; privatized health care suffers a setback
VICTORIA — When I was growing up here in Lotusland, British Columbia had the reputation of being the Crazytown of Canadian politics. The late Allan Fotheringham, the Vancouver Sun columnist…
Mental health under neoliberalism: From self-help to CBT
Screen capture taken from an animated short video on the website of the Government of Alberta, entitled Stop Negative Thoughts: Choosing a Healthier Way of Thinking. The provincial government’s health…