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Things are all messed up here. I can’t even write a private e mail to you. But – There’s bad news here. Where I live, one of the residents has…
Things are all messed up here. I can’t even write a private e mail to you. But – There’s bad news here. Where I live, one of the residents has…
Following Ben Werdmüller and Laura Ritchie, two members of a small eclectic Mastodon community I belong to, I am using the turn of the calendar to look forward and not…
Butch Lee liked to compare life to a busy transit system, in which people were always coming and going. Butch herself has left, died this passing year 2021, after a…
Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/updates-28-dec-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and…
CNN analyst, Bill Carter, like many of his countrymen, sees his United States broken, perhaps irreparably. Carter has seen America bruised and battered from the Kennedy assassination to the Viet…
Let’s face it, from Tea Partiers to QAnon to fundamentalist faux-Christians to heavily armed thugs who see nothing wrong with storming their nation’s Capitol Building, a lot of our neighbours…
What were they thinking? When the BBC was looking for an expert to provide a little colour commentary on the Gyslaine Maxwell trial, the very last name on their list…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Patrick Wood and Mary Louise Kelly write that we still need to be managing COVID risk budgets to avoid contributing more to…
As 2021 comes to a close, if you are still looking for a worthy cause to contribute to and get a tax receipt from, I have a suggestion. But first,…
Our political class, Andrew Nikiforuk writes, have learned nothing from COVID: Three weeks ago Omicron, a variant more transmissible than TikTok, started another global conflagration. And thanks in part to…
Canada’s Maritime provinces are blustery, cold, and powered by coal. The weather is fine for most people (and lovely in the summer), but they know they need to transition to…
What will be Ghislane Maxwell’s fate now that she’s been found guilty of helping Jeffrey Epstein run his sex trade for the elite? The post Covid Journal, Dec 30, 2021…
In a few recent posts, I mentioned two details of my life that seemed to be in direct opposition to each other. One, I want to move further down the…
It seems the taxpayers in Ontario are paying for the warm-up to next June’s provincial election. Premier Doug Ford is betting that any and all mention of the Bradford Bypass…
Midpoint between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage yesterday issued an 85-word statement saying the government’s Coal Policy Committee has submitted its final report and…
The obscenely rich have driven economies and societies further from anything remotely resembling a “level playing field,” writes Richard Wolff. Photo by aisletwentytwo/Flickr. Wherever and whenever obscenely rich people existed,…
@maximebernier, who sued me for libel (and lost), condemns attacks on “freedom of speech” in his latest fundraising plea. Without irony. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 29, 2021 The post…
Leaders of the Middle East may be rewriting their region’s history and, in the process, busting the myths of the West as their benefactor. The decline of American influence in…
Sending Crisis Response Teams instead of Police will save lives
One of the responsibilities of the police that could be eliminated is the role of social work and responding to mental health crises. As we’ve seen far too often in…