Confronting medical colonialism
Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada Samir Shaheen-Hussain McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020 Anyone who thinks that racism in Canada is more benign…
2021
Why Erin O’Toole’s Desperate Makeover Is Failing So Miserably
As I'm sure you know, Erin O'Toole is desperately trying to improve his image. After being forced to expel the hate mongering religious fanatic Derek Sloan he's now claiming that…
French Government Convicted of Greenwashing
Imagine if your federal and provincial governments could be put on trial for failing to meet their commitments to fight climate change. Today, a court in Paris convicted the French…
Bill Blair sketch
Quick sketch with a blunt finger in the new Procreate Pocket on iPhone. Haven’t drawn with a blunt finger in a long time. Minister Blair on screen on AppleTV on…
Practicing Mindfulness Reduces Bias
Mindfulness training can reduce the biases one has according to a new paper published today in Nature. The researchers had a control group which was given a bias test but…
Why Do Yoga?
Yoga is now practiced by champion boxers, football players such as the Miami Dolphins, and celebrity musicians such as Sting. Yoga is now being practiced by people as…
I Rather Like This
And I have nothing to add to it. Recommend this Post
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jim Stanford reminds us that a focus on protecting health is the best strategy to ensure a functioning economy. And Gary Mason writes…
“Please Elect My Dad…. Please”
With everything that’s going on around, with COVID, with vaccine delivery problems, with job losses and pain all over the place, it’s easy to get lost in the bad. It’s…
You Can’t Believe What They Say
Two days ago, ten Republican senators met with Joe Biden offering him a COVID aid program that amounted to one-third of what he wanted. Paul Krugman writes: Republicans, however, want…
Front of today’s Globe
I wonder if people are going to continue to say that those of us at the Sun are overreacting?
Congrats to the Disaffected Lib. Mk. II.
As a fan of the Mound of Sound, who writes a progressive blog as the disaffected liberal, I have been slow in congratulating him on the excellent update of his…
Covid Journal, February 3, 2021
The CLAWs are getting a free pass when it comes to ‘lockdown’ regulations. Why? Other updates: another call for a publicly-owned Made in Canada vaccine solution.
Sunny ways
When the history of the Justin Trudeau era is written, it’ll be replete with tales of how social media trumped policy, casual corruption overwhelmed ethics, and rank incompetence took the…
Hypocrisy!
Stop, go, yes, no! NDP Cabinet Minister Murray Rankin wants to be on both sides of a vital issue. He congratulates University of Victoria students for partial success after an…
We’ve had almost 70 years to fix the problems with Line 5 and very little has happened – what now?
Doesn’t Michigan understand that letting jurisdictions along the route of a Canadian pipeline carry the risk of what’s inside the pipe while only the province at the start of the…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Elevated cats.
Yammering, curious things, pitfalls, and glitches
Upgraded Londontlife to Londontlife.ca and now I need to do a lot of things manually that worked sufficiently well enough behind the scenes and I never knew about them. When…
Plague Update: Moe Says We Can Do This
Scott Moe says he thinks Saskatchewan can do this. What is this? It’s BS. He thinks we’ll buy his BS. And he’s probably right that at lesst half of the…