Trump Won’t Bury America but He’s Digging Its Grave
What goes up must come down. Even geopolitics has its own irresistible gravity. Dominant nations rise and decline, their places taken by some successor. Some times this occurs peacefully. More…
September 2020
Potemkin Politics in the USA
Watching our neighbours to the South has become a bewildering experience for many Canadians. Honestly, it’s hard to keep up with the noxious combination of strife and insanity that we…
Erin O’Toole and the SoCon Trap
It's a horrible image. Erin O'Toole preening himself in a mirror, and suggesting decent people might want to join his Bigot Party. But he knows that a lot of Canadians…
Sir John A. comes tumbling down—Alberta’s Jason Kenney wants to raise him back up again
The statue of John A. Macdonald (not pictured) was toppled during an anti-racism demonstration in Montreal on August 29. Photo by Colin Knowles/Flickr. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is outraged. “A…
The Rage Against Statues
This summer, protestors have been defacing and tearing down statues. In a democracy, we all have the right to protest. But one has the right to ask: Is this the…
Facebook Is Not News. Time For The Exodus From Big Tech To Increase From A Steady Torrent To A Flood
42% of people globally use Facebook as their news source. That should be a chilling fact to anyone who still has some functioning grey matter. “Google” it, has become synonymous…
Germany Proposes Law to Protect Insects
We’ve witnessed one of the greatest die offs of insects in history and Germany wants that to change. The country is considering a new law which will protect insects from…
Doing it the old-fashioned way…
In taking over the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada in the 1970s, we did it the old-fashioned way: We cared. There was no involvement for government. There was no need…
Dimitri Lascaris is the best choice to the take the Green Party forward
Dimitri Lascaris is one of eight people seeking to succeed Elizabeth May as leader of the Green Party of Canada. Photo courtesy of the Team Dimitri campaign. Few party leadership…
Fifty years ago Maggie and I were married at Hyacinth Bay on Quadra Island, BC.
Covid 19 shut the door on what was planned to be a big 50th wedding celebration with relatives and friends. Unfortunate delay for sure, but we will have a celebration…
Oh–What’s a Teacher to Do?
Starting next Friday, secondary students in my board will be forced to be in a room with about 15 other students they might not know, many of whom will take…
Shakespeare’s Mirror
Grant that, and then is death a benefit. So are we Caesar’s friends, that have abridged His time of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop, And let us bathe our hands…
Missing in action
Shorter Sask Party when it comes to using steel as an excuse for pipeline approvals: It’s vital that we uncritically cheerlead for EVERY SINGLE PIPELINE PROPOSAL for the sake of…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dean Russell and Jamie Smith Hopkins write about the mental health consequences of the disasters the world is wrestling with at the moment.…
laura and the angry itch: recent experiences with both sides of the medical divide
As my Facebook friends know all too well, I have been struggling with severe urticaria — hives — for two months. I have been going out of my mind with…
Living Planet Report Canada, 2020, is Out And It’s Not Pretty
Canadians take nature for granted. We figure that there’s so much land and it’s, relatively speaking, sparsely populated so, no problem. Problem.
Only in L.A.
The skies above LAX had unexpected congestion on Sunday. The cockpit crew of an American Airlines flight notified the airport tower that they had encountered a very identifiable flying object.…
The Day After: Water
The Mackenzie Delta, pictured, spans 13,500 square kilometers and contains approximately 25,000 lakes. It includes the second largest drainage basin of any North American river after the Mississippi. Photo courtesy…
Liberal’s ‘feminist’ foreign policy supports repressive Haitian police forces
Haitian police officers handcuff lawbreakers in Port-au-Prince’s severely damaged downtown area, January 19, 2010. Photo by Logan Abassi/United Nations/Flickr. An important component of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s international branding has…
Ford’s Education Mess
For many families across the country a time that many have been dreading is here. In Quebec it came last week. For many across Ontario, tomorrow or next week will…