what i’m watching: best of 2021 (april to december)
As I mentioned here, I’ve decided to stop posting my entire “what i’m watching” list for the year. Instead I’m going to do an annual best-of. I’m also realigning this…
January 2022
if Townes can’t break your heart, nothing can – because you are a goddamned robot
The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Musical interlude
Cowboy Junkies – White Sail
The Booster Pays Off
The US Centers for Disease Control report that the Pfizer and Moderna boosters are paying off. The extra doses are 90 percent effective against hospitalization with the variant, the agency…
Kenney Is On The Right Track?
So, according to Ken Boessenkool, we should congratulate Jason Kenney for “being on the right track“. I get it – Ken’s a conservative organizer, and he’s going to think that…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Claire Horwell highlights how masking and other continued public health measures to rein in spread to the extent possible are the only way…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 21, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Doug Ford unveils schedule to ease COVID-19 restrictions starting Jan. 31 #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Humanity at ‘doom’s doorstep’ says Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The “Doomsday Clock,” launched by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists more than a half-century ago, remains at 100 seconds to midnight for the third year straight. Image courtesy the…
Saunderson’s Groundhog Day
Mayor Brian Saunderon’s two petty, vindictive, and very personal motions are on the agenda for Monday, Jan. 24. You can read the agenda here, and read my comments on our…
Reason Over Passion
Inflation is surging. And Canadians — naturally — are worried. Heather Scoffield writes: It’s not just that the price of apples and oranges is up well over six per cent…
Forecasting Ford’s Future.
They are starting to measure the balance of premier Doug Ford’s tenancy at Queen’s Park in terms of weeks. The only problem Ontario voters are really facing after the June…
Not much edification in yesterday’s COVID-19 newser as Premier Kenney and officials ‘filibuster’ the hard questions
There was little informative or edifying about the mostly successful effort by Premier Jason Kenney and three of his senior health care enablers to run out the clock on reporters’…
"Foxes say henhouse security ‘goes too far, ‘ call for cutbacks
I am so heartily sick of editing stories about how local business owners feel that the public health regulation "go to far" or that the plan to allow such "essential"…
Jagmeet Singh’s Very Embarrasing Throne Game
I've always had the feeling that Jagmeet Singh sees himself as some kind of medieval warrior. A shining King of Khalistan who would not look out of place on a…
"Foxes say henhouse security ‘goes too far, ‘ call for cutbacks
I am so heartily sick of editing stories about how local business owners feel that the public health regulation “go to far” or that the plan to allow such “essential”…
Plague Update: Hide The Model
Leaked Saskatchewan disease modelling has hospitalizations headed for a record high next month. The SHA is asking the public to limit gatherings "in order to not overwhelm the health care…
Will The O’Toole Cons Ever Stop Lying?
Sometimes these days I feel like I'm living on some kind of bizarro planet, where Erin O'Toole and his alien Cons stumble around with their shiny pokey noses, lying like…
Chile’s new political era
Gabriel Boric after becoming Chile’s youngest president on December 19, 2021. Photo by Paulo Slachevsky/Flickr. Chilean historian Gabriel Salazar, a specialist in social movements and constituent people’s power, ponders the…
Small step toward police accountability
BC Civil Liberties Association is successful in their Federal Court action against the RCMP and the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP…
Sun Media hit: where’s Justin?
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