Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Deborah Gleeson discusses how inequality in vaccine availability is making new variants an inevitability, while Joseph Stiglitz and Lori Wallach write that…
December 2021
Don’t Participate in Facebook Quizzes. Ever!
· Sharing this (very long) explanation of WHY you don’t participate in Facebook quizzes. Ever. The Docs have posted several times about this topic, because we see… See more Read…
Roe Is Dead
After hearing the arguments, it appears that the United States Supreme Court will ditch its landmark Roe V Wade decision. Dana Milbank writes: A deeply partisan majority on the Roberts…
Canada’s Care Concerns.
It seems fairly clear to Canadians that our battles with the Coronavirus are not over. As alarms spread over Covid-19 variants and the arguments with those who do not trust…
Statement of defence by Premier’s Office indicates Jobs Minister Doug Schweitzer wanted fired chief of staff replaced
After the story broke in late October that Doug Schweitzer’s ministerial chief of staff, Ariella Kimmel, had filed a lawsuit claiming she was unjustly fired for complaining about sexual harassment…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates November 30, 2021
Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/updates-30-nov-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and…
How to steal rides from winter part 1: hands
I like to keep riding outside as long as I can. Road salt, snow and ice-covered roads are hard limits for me. But temperature is a moveable one. It’s quite…
The Day The Cons Officially Became A Party of Right-Extremists
I vividly remember the scene. Justin Trudeau was addressing a small rally in a field in the Montérégie, back in 2018. When suddenly a nasty old woman started heckling him…
emergency preparedness: in which climate change plus living in a remote community push this 60-year-old into more responsible adulthood
In all our many years together, Allan and I never had an emergency kit in our home, or anything even approaching one. In New York, I never felt the need.…
CircleOf – The Newest Online Caregiver’s Best Friend
If you are a regular reader here in the Caregivers’ Living Room, you will know that I love online tools that help family caregivers ease the burden of care by…
How to steal rides from winter part 1: hands
I like to keep riding as long as I can. Road salt, snow and ice-covered roads are hard limits for me. But temperature is a moveable one. It’s quite easy…
tom morello on the iww and the soundtrack to the good good fight
In October, The New York Times published this piece by musician and activist Tom Morello. I’ve read it several times, and shared it on social media, and still I can’t…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Eric Topol writes that we have the public health tools at our disposal to overcome the Omicron COVID variant if our leaders are…
Legal Tweet of the Day: December 1, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: B.C. store owner who offered employee cash for sex and then fired her ordered to pay $99K via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Fixing the Broken Committee System
Some days, the irony just pours from council news. In a story on CollingwoodToday, we learned that council, …will be considering changes to their procedural bylaw, which will include making…
And a Very Merry Christmas to You Too, Gary
The Globe & Mail’s in-house Grinch, Gary Mason, delivers his own brand of Christmas Cheer. COVID-19 and its mutant iterations will be with us for some time, and possibly forever.…
Healing the people, healing the land
Residents of the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre gather in support of Wet’suwet’en members resisting the construction of a gas pipeline through their traditional territory, February 2020. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood.…
Noam Chomsky warns of ‘very dangerous’ US antagonism of China
Appearing on Democracy Now! last week, Noam Chomsky accused US President Joe Biden of continuing a perilous policy of confrontation with China. Photo by Tomas Roggero/Flickr. Linguist and dissident Noam…
Will the Arctic Bid Adieu to Snow?
It’s happening sooner, decades sooner, than anyone expected. Rain will replace snow as the Arctic’s most common precipitation as the climate crisis heats up the planet’s northern ice cap, according…
More Gloom
COVID 19 has taken its toll — not just in terms of sickness and death, but in terms of public optimism. Susan Delacourt writes: New polling by Abacus research shows…