Filipinos dominate the workforce in the global shipping industry. Photo courtesy Grieg Star AS, a shipping company based in Bergen, Norway. Seafaring work is uncertain, demanding and, at times, dangerous.…
A Canadian soldier takes part in a simulated battle during Exercise Maple Resolve 17 at Camp Wainwright in Alberta, Canada, May 16, 2017. Photo by Sgt. JF Lauzé. The #NoUNSC4Canada…
Many have imagined the Covid pandemic will usher in a new era marked by fundamental change. To some that means a low-carbon world just ticking along on alternative, green energy.…
I remember the flight of Yuri Gagarin. I remember the suborbital flight of Alan Shepard and the three-looper of John Glenn. I grew up devouring the progress of the Mercury,…
Some creatures, the oldest, carry within them billions of years of evolutionary history. Human activity is putting that history in jeopardy as we drive those species into extinction. It’s ironic…
When Stephen Harper began popping up in the news again I felt like an abused dog finding itself crossing paths with his evil former master. Give him his due, Sideshow…
The headline really isn’t funny – “Every living premier in Ontario blames long-term care facilities problems on their predecessor.” The process started when reporters asked Doug Ford about the accusations.…
Criminal behaviour at nursing homes; masks; suicides. Just another day of updates about Covid during lockdown.
From the very beginning — starting with Barack Obama’s “phony” birth certificate — Donald Trump has peddled conspiracy theories. His latest is particularly vile. Peter Wehner writes: When Lori Klausutis…
When I was contemplating a move from Vancouver to Toronto, the Star found out via an editor I knew there. I met with some senior folks at the paper, and…
So much death. More than 100,000 gone in the United States. Close to 400,000 dead globally. In Canada, more than 6,500 dead, with Quebec accounting for most of that grim…
‘Robin’, an illustration by John James Audobon, American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (1851). Image from Wikimedia Commons. The Day After: Animals marks the first installment in an ongoing curated series…
As the song asks, “How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm, after they’ve seen Paree?” That was a song that many believed after the First World War. It…
There are bound to be calls for formal inquiries after the long-term care horror show discovered in Ontario and Quebec, and quite likely on its way to being discovered in…
When I first saw Canadian soldiers arriving at long term care homes in Ontario and Quebec I must admit I was shocked.I didn't think they had the training or the…
Elevated cat.
So much for Doug Ford’s brief stint as the caring, concerned premier of Ontario. The province’s Covid-19 response changed public opinion of the giant blonde lout. Then this. Cockroaches, rotten…
There is much more graphic video available online, but the following succinctly shows the horror of being black in the United States: Recommend this Post
THE PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG IS TO FIND THE NEWS THAT MOST OF OUR COMMERCIAL NEWS MEDIA DON’T TELL US. THIS GOES BACK TO ABOUT 1870 WITH THE APPEARANCE OF…
