Policing the poor
Toronto Police assemble to confront protesters guarding homeless encampments in Trinity-Bellwoods Park in the west end of the city, June 22, 2021. Photo by Martin Reis/Twitter. Recently, we have seen…
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Murray Dobbin
There are some commentators who believe with Tennyson’s Ulysses that it’s “not too late to seek a newer world.” Murray Dobbin was one of them. Seth Klein and Shannon Daub…
PARENT TO PARENT: Learning to TRANSITION
A few weeks ago, I came across this wonderful piece on transitions by a parent of twins, Marquitha Gilbert. I contacted Marquitha and we had a rich conversation about parenting,…
Hot Nasties: get the album here!
<a href=”https://hotnasties.bandcamp.com/album/the-hot-nasties”>The Hot Nasties by Hot Nasties</a> The post Hot Nasties: get the album here! first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
At the Political Circus.
Canada hardly needs to keep the leaders of three weakened and badly led political parties. The melee in the middle-of-the-road in this recent election was nothing but a circus. Some…
Conservative MLA, notorious for ‘Cheezies’ remark, righteously scorched by indignant Edmonton physicians
It’s a wonder Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s inbox didn’t spontaneously combust yesterday when the letter from the Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association landed in it. Signed by EZMSA President Erika…
The end of the American empire
I’m sorry to be late on this one. I suspect I’m closer to heaven or hell than I was just a few days ago. The latest U.S. polls show Trump…
Annamie Paul is (Almost) Gone. Can the Green Party Survive What Comes Next?
Annamie Paul is in the process of resigning her leadership of the Green Party of Canada. Good. By any reasonable metric, Paul's tenure as leader has been a mitigated disaster…
Annamie Paul is (Almost) Gone. Can the Green Party Survive What Comes Next?
Annamie Paul is in the process of resigning her leadership of the Green Party of Canada. Good. By any reasonable metric, Paul's tenure as leader has been a mitigated disaster…
Annamie Paul is (Almost) Gone. Can the Green Party Survive What Comes Next?
Annamie Paul is in the process of resigning her leadership of the Green Party of Canada. Good. By any reasonable metric, Paul’s tenure as leader has been a mitigated disaster…
Plague Update: Saskatchewan Abandoned by Sask Party
Saskatchewan is a sad place to be right now, while the Premier is off on a second job farming when not golfing, a Cabinet Minister was on vacation in the…
Our latest Sun Media hit: the Chinese Communist People-Kidnappers Party
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How The Hate Mongering Cons Are Setting Our Country On Fire
It's hard to believe that it has been a whole week since the monstrous Erin O'Toole and his Con thugs were threatening to tear this country apart. Mutilate our medicare…
Anti-Asian Hate & Resistance: Jackson Heights Immigration Solidarity Network Newsletter, August 7, 2021
Dear friends, Warm greetings in late summer to all our generous readers. We begin with two pieces of good news. On July 29, the City Council finally passed legislation that…
Transsexuals Against Empire: Trans Women And The Fracturing Of Whiteness
Kersplebedeb received this article by Valerie, who explained that “it was written in the context of a local collective attempting to organize trans women specifically to struggle for our liberation…
“Create a fire in you to fight injustice”: How some Christian theocrats co-opt liberatory themes – Matthew N. Lyons [3WF]
Cindy Jacobs, one of NAR’s top leaders, wants to “put steel in backbone” New Apostolic Reformers advocate Christian dominance through spiritual warfare, yet some of them also call for empowering…
Thought For The Day
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Legal Tweet of the Day: September 27, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Swiss voters back same-sex marriage and adoption by clear majority via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Choose Yer Poison
Chris Hedges sees two options in America’s future – oligarchy or autocracy. The competing systems of power in the United States are divided between oligarchy and autocracy. There are no…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Don Braid discusses how Alberta’s health care system and polity are both collapsing under the weight of a UCP government which has utterly…