Year in Review
I don’t normally do a year in review, but his was my most tumultuous year in decades. It’s right up there with the year I dropped out of high school…
2022
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Happy Noo Yeer
Here are some of my walls. Happy 2023, all of youse. pic.twitter.com/cowlJfhuhR — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 31, 2022
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your year-end reading. – Allison Maher et al. study how COVID-19 causes fundamental changes to a person’s immune system, resulting in far greater vulnerability to other infections.…
Why Pierre Poilievre Will Never Be Prime Minister
It was great to be able to finally return to my peaceful neighbourhood by the lake, and find it looking as beautiful as ever. And after a lot of travelling,…
Why Pierre Poilievre Will Never Be Prime Minister
It was great to be able to finally return to my peaceful neighbourhood by the lake, and find it looking as beautiful as ever. And after a lot of travelling,…
A Love Affair That Hurts All Of Us
If you follow such things (i.e., the news) you will know that our current federal government, echoing the passions of previous ones, has an unmitigated and uninterrupted crush on the…
Saturday Photo: Sun to Greet the New Year?
Confession: the photo was taken some time ago when we actually had some sunny weather. It’s been gray and rainy for the last couple of days and all the snow…
Happy New Year
2022 has been a horrific year. The war in Ukraine raged for most of it. The number of deaths from COVID continued to rise. Millions of us continued to believe…
Bad Days for Barrie.
Reading one of those on-line newspapers for my city and area, I found a quiz asking readers what they consider the most serious issue our community faces. I wasn’t surprised…
Only in Ontario.
Looking ahead in Ontario for 2023 is not a pretty prospect. We are faced with three more years of the ineptness of premier Doug Ford and his conservatives. He does…
Some thoughts on New Year’s parties, especially conservatives ones, which are always welcome in Alberta politics
As befits New Year’s Eve, the topic of the last AlbertaPolitics.ca post of 2022 is New Year’s parties. Former Alberta NDP leader Brian Mason … at a party (Photo: David…
Musical interlude
Stoto – Her
My Favourite Films of 2022 (So Far)
I’m a huge film fan, as many will know. As ever since the pandemic hit, I’ve got a long list of 2022 films I still need to see. I didn’t…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Teresa Wright sets out the wish list of ER doctors who have been dealing with avoidable COVID waves for years. Tiffany Hsu discusses…
Racialized are prime targets of pro-Israel attacks—and it’s deliberate
Photo by Abbas Momani Okay, let’s talk about an elephant in the room. What do Faisal Bhaba, Desmond Cole, Javier Dávila, Nadia Shoufani, Rehab Nazzal, Rana Zaman, Linda Sarsour, Idris…
Today’s tonic: “(Dis)Ordered Liberty” by Erin O’Toole
Today’s tonic: “(Dis)Ordered Liberty” by Erin O’Toole. Refreshing and I wish we had heard more of this tone from him when he was in charge of the CPC https://erinotoole.substack.com/p/disordered-liberty #cdnpoli
It’s About The Money
The talk in Washington these days is all about George Santos. Eugene Robinson writes: After initial reporting by the New York Times, journalists have discovered that, basically, Santos’s whole life…
Only in Ontario.
Looking ahead in Ontario for 2023 is not a pretty prospect. We are faced with three more years of the ineptness of premier Doug Ford and his conservatives. He does…