in which my plus-size clothing works for me one last time
I recently lost a lot of weight* and am selling all my plus-size clothing. Over the years I have donated many items and sold many others. Whether to donate or…
2021
Our Next Governor General
Mary Simon will be our next Governor-General. She has been considered for the job ever since David Johnston got the job in 2010. It’s been a long wait. But, Susan…
Explaining Degrowth and Why it Matters
The way the economy runs leads to environmental destruction and it doesn’t have to be that way. The industrial revolution accelerated consumption of non-renewable resources and governments allowed corporations to…
We’ve heard this song before!
Of all the stupid announcements that are never going to happen, Omar Alghabra made it the other day. It might just be the purview of federal transportation ministers, but to…
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In what looks like a classic case of bargaining in bad faith, UCP Government demands additional 3% pay cut from more than 30,000 nurses
Alberta Health Services returned to the bargaining table with Alberta’s more than 30,000 public sector registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses yesterday for the first time since March 2020 with…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Picturesque cats.
With an Election Looming This Should Help Make Up Your Mind
With our forests ablaze and heatwaves raking the country claiming hundreds of lives, this is inexcusable. Since 2018, Canadian governments have spent 23 billion dollars on building and expanding pipelines.…
Is Erin O’Toole a Dead Man Walking?
Recent polls show Justin Trudeau on the path to another false majority government. His only real challenger, Erin O’Toole, is already being written off. The Beaverton captures the Tory dilemma…
Voting Guide – 2021
This summer is showing us that the climate emergency is deathly real and we’re just getting the first taste of the lash. So, when we go to the polls this…
More on the Harbourview Park Dump
Speaking to some long-time Collingwood residents, I’ve learned a bit more about the dump that lies under the soil at Harbourview Park and is now proposed as the site of…
Statement by Chairman Finch of the Monarchist League of Canada
REPUBLICANISM WILL NOT HELP WITH RECONCILIATION In the aftermath of the horrific discoveries of the bodies of Indigenous children at former residential schools across the country, Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians…
Indians—tolerant, but don’t marry my sister
A recent Pew Research survey of religious attitudes in India revealed some interesting insights into a society tolerant of, yet divided by, religion. First, Indians are a very religious people.…
How Trump’s White Supremacist Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6th 2021 – New York Times’ Visual Investigations
This is required viewing for all who care about equality, justice, and the rule of law, and how all were undermined and attacked by the deeply immoral narcissist, would-be-dictator Donald…
My latest: Trudeau will win – because of us
Is Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party going to win the coming election? Yes, probably. But not because of him, really. He’s likely going to win because of us. Yes, us. Ten…
A German Climate Strategy – Getting Real
WGBU, the German government’s Advisory Council on Global Change, has released a paper for climate action in advance of the Glasgow climate summit. The most contentious demand is for nations…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Maria Sarrhou talks to doctors about their frustrations treating COVID-19 in patients who chose not to be vaccinated. And Daniel Villareal reports…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 6, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: An American lawyer went on a lunch date in Moscow. Now he’s languishing in a jail cell in Belarus via CNN Read more: https://bit.ly/WiseLawLegalTweet07062021 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
Looking Deep Within
These days, for various reasons, it is growing increasingly difficult for us, as Canadians, to feel smug about ourselves. There are the bleak indictments in the form of unmarked graves,…
Timothy Snyder on the War on History
In “The War on History was a War on Democracy,” Snyder compares Russian memory laws, which we’re quick to recognize as propaganda, to American under Trump: By March 1932, hundreds…