It seems that we have been chasing COVID 19 instead of proactively shutting down the risk factors. Our federal and provincial governments have called for and supported closing our borders…
As a third wave of COVID is about to clobber Canada, I want to talk a bit about why this is completely unnecessary, and likely as not has more to…
It has become an almost weekly event here in Alberta, and in other parts of the Mediocre White North, for a small group of malcontents to gather in protest of…
A recent survey by Research Co. and Glacier Media shows a deeply disturbing trend in Canadians: we seem to be getting increasingly stupid. While this survey didn’t get the media…
It feels like being kept after school because some one else broke the rules. It feels like a piling on of detentions. Now premier Doug Ford has added another four…
The Quebec Remparts are among five QMJHL teams forced to suspend team activities due to positive COVID-19 tests. https://t.co/mDZhsb4hrt — CBC News (@CBCNews) April 4, 2021 The WHL is carrying…
Happy Easter 2021! It being Easter Sunday, presumably the flock at GraceLife Church in Parkland County will pack into their pews inside their barn-like rolled-steel worship centre southwest of Edmonton…
Canada? 131,761. #cdnpoli #TrudeauVaccineFailure https://t.co/MTocEPgVOk — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 3, 2021
I have never found anything Erin O'Toole and his Con clowns have ever done to be even remotely amusing. I consider them to be foul far right extremists who are…
I’ve come up for air from this crazy year of teaching for World Autism Day – and I’m a day late. Many autistic people find April an awkward time because…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Emma Jackson highlights why we shouldn’t treat carbon pricing as anything more than a tiny piece of a plan to avert a climate…
Like it or not (and there’s no reason to like it), we’re not going back to something we might recognize as “normal.” Similar, to be sure, but not the same.…
That’s the question pundit Roland Martin asks about their uniform silence over the sordid sex scandal engulfing Republican, Matt Gaetz, who is a House Representative from Florida. Before getting to…
Beverly Cleary, who died last week at the astounding age of 104, was a pivotal figure in the world of children’s literature. Her books are treasures; her influence can scarcely…
Improbably, ran into an old Ontario Liberal friend, who – like most of them – had scooted up the 401 to become a pensioned Trudeau Liberal. Small talk. Social distance.…
The greatest Canadian pop song ever written. (I’m a sucker for the bass line, too.) Danced to it with Gordie and others one drunken night in Florida. Good times.
Just a little rant here, for a change, but one with an important point: Man, Apple is such pure shite. The fanfare and mob hysteria is definitely undeserved. Yes, it…
This year’s crop from the ornamental orange tree. Have had up to 23 in the past, and this year it took months for these to ripen (they’d set on during…
Flemington Park in Toronto is not a prestige address. I watched the area grow over the years. It was never much in the way of architectural creativity. It was rabbits’…
