Calls to defund and abolish the police have become a mainstream conversation in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police officer and countless other murders and…
I was going to just ignore all this, but it came up in a discussion on my social media feed, so here’s the thing: Here’s J.K. Rowling‘s now infamous post…
“This is hard to watch but it’s important. We cannot ignore that systemic racism persists in Alberta and across the world.” – Rachel Notley commenting on the video of the…
A blast from the not too distant past from Boris Johnson. Justin Trudeau had his blackface problem. Bad, very bad. But it doesn’t hold a candle to Boris Johnson’s past…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Christine Berry offers a reminder that protecting public health is absolutely necessary for us to see any economic recovery in the wake…
The results aren’t in yet. It could be months, a year perhaps, before we have the Covid-19 death tallies but, at the moment, we know who won’t be at the…
After yesterday’s West Point debacle – the water glass, the inability to say “McArthur”, the ramp, the tweet ABOUT the ramp – #TrumpIsUnwell is trending this morning on twitter. Along…
Clean technology is not a panacea for climate change. Photo by ThoroughlyReviewed/Flickr. The catastrophic economic fallout from COVID-19–millions unemployed, skyrocketing food bank usage, uncertain job futures–has provided a major boost…
Back in February I sent the Los Angeles-based boutique cycling gear company an old event jersey and $250 and asked them to upcycle it into something that I would actually…
The recent momentum earned by Black Lives Matter activists and their allies is indisputable. It finally seems that the recent murder of yet another innocent Black man, George Floyd, by…
Brief Explanatory Note: This was written in the last days of 2019 and the first days of the current year. In early March, before doing an initial private circulation, I…
Robin Sears writes that pandemic fatigue is setting in: Public health officials have raised alarms almost daily about the risks of letting our guard down, or re-opening without clear safeguards.…
We hear through the grapevine that Justin Trudeau and his liberals are thinking election. Since I am supposed to have an opinion on this proposal, I will need to reach…
“The good is oft interred with their bones.” So, let it be with Sir John A. Macdonald. How often must we decry the stupidity, the ignorance of those who want…
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/florida-flooding-miami/ Yes, despite the braying by our capitalists and their political hacks, climate change is happening – and fast. And so is a whole range of destructive changes. Soon. It…
On not drawing BLM cartoons @LondOntLife
# Jun 14, 2020 — Jun 14, 2020 (https://youtu.be/RZgkjEdMbSw) We drew no cartoons about BLM nor anything about our local protests and marches. We could find no humour over them,…