Musical interlude
The War On Drugs feat. Lucius – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
The War On Drugs feat. Lucius – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
I don’t at all disagree with yesterday’s response to my statement that China’s proclaimed creation of a nation of general ambition for equality. (and forgive me, I have a computer…
How quickly the tide turns. Hardly a year has passed since the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer triggered protests that pressured cities across the U.S. to…
Today I was made aware of the CBC story about the incumbent Ward 4 councillor, Sean Chu. This is deeply upsetting. Let us focus on the victim – a teenage…
Still from my short film ‘The Big Snore’ I am thrilled to announce here that my short film, The Big Snore, is programmed to screen at the wonderful Seattle Queer…
Britain is experiencing a new wave of Covid cases, 40,000 per day. Yet it hasn’t caused much reaction from the public. It sounds like the legendary stiff upper lip, the…
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Bang Pedersen argues that the COVID pandemic offers a prime example of the importance of telling hard truths to the public –…
Election day in Alberta is Monday, Oct. 18. Wait, you may be saying, didn’t we just have an election? Very observant of you. Yes, we did have an election, but…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Texas abortion law to remain in force, federal appeals court says via @CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Can a society that regards books as threats survive? I have my serious doubts, doubts you may share after becoming acquainted with the following story, yet another nail in the…
A former Boeing 737 Max test pilot has been charged with criminal fraud for allegedly withholding vital safety information about the flawed aircraft. It’s said that pilot Mark Forkner deceived…
Have American workers said “enough”? Have they had their fill of long hours and low pay in jobs that offer few benefits and no security? Paul Krugman says their pent-up…
Are less-religious or more secular nations happier than religious ones? Studies suggest yes. Personally, I would certainly be happier in a more secular nation if it meant fewer angry, nasty,…
One measure of how critical the climate crisis has become is the early-onset impacts we’re already enduring. Severe storm events of increasing frequency, intensity and duration; unbearable heat waves; wildfires…
Wildfire smoke casts an orange haze over San Francisco after more than 300,000 acres of forest area burned across the northwestern United States in September 2020. Photo by Patrick Perkins/Unsplash.…
We’re having supply chain problems these days. Paul Krugman writes that, eventually, the bottlenecks will be broken: Earlier in the pandemic, people compensated for the loss of many services by…
Queen Elizabeth seems to have had her fill with the yack-yack boys who pass themselves off as world leaders and their empty talk about the climate crisis. The Queen has…
Using a city-owned developer to build out more housing supply is a more durable strategy than other potential solutions to the affordability crisis, writes economist Roshak Momtahen. Photo from Shutterstock.…
Don’t you hate those obituaries that read: ‘Died peacefully with family in attendance.’ And you know it is B.S. written by an unimaginative and unctuous undertaker. The person probably passed…
Unfortunately for Canadian anti-vaxxers, it takes time and a certain amount of ingenuity to establish a new religion, which has considerably complicated the task of getting religious exemptions to COVID-19…