Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Robert Booth and Heather Stewart report on Boris Johnson’s insistence on lifting COVID-19 protections even as case counts rise in the UK. And…
2021
"at your library" in the north island eagle: a chance to win great prizes, just for reading
In my last column I highlighted incentives being offered by the Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) for kids to read, and for teens to stay engaged in learning, through the…
"at your library" in the north island eagle: summer reading fun for all ages
Summer Reading Club is back, and it’s not just for kids. Children, teens, and adults can all find fun reading challenges – and prizes – at your library. Even infants…
"at your library" in the north island eagle: the library celebrates national indigenous people’s month
Still catching up on posting my columns. The recent horrific discovery in Kamloops of the remains of 215 Indigenous children, buried in an unmarked mass grave, brought home the horrors…
A Life of Learning…….
After 75 years of life learning on this planet we call Earth the last 40 or so with a computer of one kind or another on my desk, almost 20…
A Life of Learning…….
After 75 years of life learning on this planet we call Earth the last 40 or so with a computer of one kind or another on my desk, almost 20…
The Mystery Explained
From the beginning of Donald Trump’s rise, I have been mystified by his supporters. They struck me as rubes, easy marks for a con man. In an excerpt from his…
Saturday Photo: The Rapids Where the Going Gets Tough, If Not Impossible
Spent a lovely few hours last Sunday at the Parc des rapides on the St. Lawrence. These rapids and the St. Mary’s rapid to the east effectively blocked sailing ships…
An Optimistic Jagmeet Singh?
Ottawa-based Toronto Star reporter Susan Delacourt tells us that new democratic party leader Jagmeet Singh is on a roll. She tells us that Singh has reasons to be optimistic about…
The Annals of Justice: Manitoba Justice Minister asks the province’s Law Society to investigate all 10 ‘Justice Centre’ lawyers
Responding to the revelation last week that the founder and president of the so-called Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms hired a private eye to follow the chief justice of the…
Musical interlude
LAUREL – Scream Drive Faster
July 16: It’s worse, much worse than any of us can imagine.
Germany has just suffered flooding that has left a hundred people dead. And the damage extends into Belgium and The Netherlands. Yes. Climate change is happening. It’s not just happening…
Fed Up. Is It Time for Both Americas to Each Go Their Own Way?
Chris Hedges believes America is in a pre-revolutionary state, coming apart at the seams. Hedges is no outlier either. A report in Newsweek suggests Americans, Blue State and Red State,…
Community Activist Anne Balding Has Died. She Will Be Long Remembered.
Originally published by the Cowichan Citizen Community activist Anne Balding has died. (Submitted photo) Balding was a founder of the Meals on the Ground program ROBERT BARRON One of the…
My latest: never again
The High Aryan Warrior Priest of Canada stirred. “Jesus wasn’t a Jew,” he said, without blinking. It’s a sunny, warm spring 1986. I’m a reporter for the Calgary Herald, now…
It’s Time To Blow Up The Party System
I have never been a political partisan. That isn't to say I don't have political beliefs, or positions. But I simply don't buy into the broad idea of being a…
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Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Claire Pomeroy and the Financial Times each highlight the likelihood that survivors of long COVID will be affected for the rest of their…
Who To Trust: The Short Answer
Who to trust? That is always a perennial question, and particularly now, when not only government, corporations, politicians and corporate and state media have repeatedly been shown to have lied,…