The Cancer Diaries, Part 10
My father died of esophageal cancer several years ago. It was a horrible, lingering death, and I watched him shrivel and die, in constant pain towards the end. On one…
2020
Condemning the Ford government.
Only the other day, I was saying: The objective is to run the government in accord with their dogma. They are not running it for you. The front page Toronto…
Covid Journal, October 3, 2020
Setting the Stage for a Covid Coup? Unfortunately (I mean it), Donald and Melania Trump have both been tested positive for Covid. A horde of others, particularly those caught gladhanding…
Antifascist and Antiprison October Book Sale at Leftwingbooks.net
As we enter what promises to be an Autumn of historic challenges, the theme of antifascism is front-and-center not only for our movements, but also in the mainstream media. At…
They’re Falling Like Flies
Herman Cain, Hope Hicks, Donald and Melania, KellyAnne and now Chris Christie. Everybody got the ‘Rona. Even Trump’s latest, pinch-hitter campaign manager got the ‘Rona. Three White House press corps…
Torn Asunder – the Greens Fade
I’ve received around eight phone calls since yesterday urging me to vote for various candidates for the leadership of the Green Party of Canada. The party must maintain a list…
Saturday Photo: The Book Launch Will Be BYOB, Unfortunately
Usually when I have a new book come out we have a little launch party at an independent book store. Last year just about now we were preparing for one…
Going Down
This week has been the worst week of Donald Trump’s presidency. Tony Burman writes: The announcement early Friday that he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive was shocking,…
Duck Donald, He’s a Fascist
Trump is a terribly despicable person. One might say deplorable. And he surrounds himself with terrible people, and is supported by terrible people. While embarrassing his country with a disgraceful…
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue returns to top of Alberta independent booksellers’ bestseller list
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. The lists are compiled…
Musical interlude
Texas King – Baby
The Day Covid-19 Finally Caught Up With Donald Trump
In my last post on the Trump-Biden debate, I suggested that Donald Trump should wear an extra large mask. One big enough to shield us from his bigotry AND his…
The Saga Deepens – Trump Off to Hospital
Trump is off to Walter Reed hospital where he’s expected to remain for several days. He’s said to be exhausted and to have developed a fever. It seems there is…
The Immoralist
NYT conservative columnist, David Brooks, writes that Trump and “his felons” are dragging America into moral chaos. The crucial thing about Donald Trump is that he is not a nationalist…
You Silly Bugger. We’re Rich and the Rich Don’t Take Responsibility.
Donald Trump pissed off a lot of people back in March when questioned about whether he felt responsibility for America’s Covid death rate. He replied, “I don’t take any responsibility…
Watching football in Trumpland: Sports and the populist right
US President Donald Trump, joined by Secretary of Defense James Mattis, participates in pre-game ceremonies at the Army-Navy NCAA College football game at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Saturday, Dec.…
Happy Alberta Day, fellow Albertians! Don’t count on having two days off in September, though
Happy “Alberta Day,” my fellow Albertians! Does Jason Kenney have a plan to erase Labour Day and replace it with something called Alberta Day on or about September 1? It…
What If This Had Happened in February, How Many Lives Might Have Been Spared?
What if Donald Trump had contracted Covid-19 months ago at the outset of the pandemic? What if he got a hard case of the disease, akin to the “touch and…
Climate Change & Common Sense: “We ain’t gots none.”
Beautiful, moving sculptures, the old Bugattis are. Yes, they should be converted either to a parallel electric hybrid or solar-hydrogen, as with all internal combustion vehicles. If our society had…
Speaking to Cuban doctors who heal the world
In 2004, Dr. José Armando Arronte Villamarín was posted to head a Cuban medical brigade in Namibia. Cuban medical personnel first came to southwest Africa in 1975 alongside Cuban soldiers;…