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Bonobo feat. Jordan Rakei – Shadows
January 2022
A "Must Have" for the JT Fan Club
For a ridiculously low, low, low price of just $45 (USD) you can have your very own Justin Trudeau bobblehead. The statuary is produced by the legendary National Bobblehead Hall…
My 14 favorite books of 2021. Satisfaction guaranteed.
The year 2021 is one most of us would just as soon forget. That benighted year couldn’t even let Betty White celebrate her 100th. That was cruel. Personally, I found…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Bruce Arthur writes that Doug Ford’s photo ops around empty hospital beds don’t signal any useful accomplishment when they’re not paired with solutions…
Those Who Author Their Own Misfortune Should Accept Consequences
Triage for everyone. Where medical resources are inadequate, triage is the time-honoured way to sort out those who will be treated and those who will not. In Canada, Covid has…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 7, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers say they want new trial after juror says he was sexually abused as a child #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
Power Play Behind Council’s Closed Doors
This is a repost from a draft of the piece posted on Dec 7, 2021: In the Dec. 7 meeting of the Strategic Initiatives Standing Committee, last Tuesday, one of…
Heritage District Rules Need Repair
A November story in CollingwoodToday about a new homeowner who got caught in the quagmire of our heritage district rules underscores the need for a thorough overhaul of the rules,…
“Regrets, we’ve had a few.”
Talking to Susan Delacourt of the Toronto Star late last year, prime minister Justin Trudeau complained about the “casual cynicism” of the left. He said we bugged him. Delacourt quotes…
If only Alberta had an institution that could support students forced to learn at home – like it did until 2020
With this pandemic disrupting education in Alberta, if only we’d had an institution that could have supported students forced to learn at home, help their parents, and provide digital curriculum…
Accomodating the unvaccinated
Conservative leader Erin O’Toole thinks the 87 percent of Canadians who are vaccinated should make allowances and accomodate the tiny minority of selfish shitheads who refuse to be vaccinated. I…
O’Toole – Let’s "Accommodate" Anti-Vaxxers
And he thinks he’s prime ministerial talent? Erin “Wrong Way” O’Toole can’t help but make a fool of himself. Canadians unwilling to be vaccinated against COVID-19 should be accommodated through…
Human History Gets a Rewrite: A Review of “The Dawn of Everything” [The Atlantic]
Many years ago, when I was a junior professor at Yale, I cold-called a colleague in the anthropology department for assistance with a project I was working on. I didn’t…
The Radical Promise of Human History: A Review of “The Dawn of Everything” [Boston Review]
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity David Graeber and David Wengrow The standard history of humanity goes something like this. Roughly 300,000 to 200,000 years ago, Homo…
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Dawn of Everything is now available at LeftWingBooks.net NATIONAL BESTSELLER,NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow…
Six Million Canadians Back Trump?
Lawrence Martin writes that a sizeable minority of Canadians, six million, support Donald Trump or his ideology. It’s a number – more than the population of British Columbia – that’s…
Al Jazeera Sees the Faint Echo of 9/11 in 1/6 and Shines a Light on Canada
Al Jazeera sees the 1/6 insurrection on Capitol Hill as a perhaps unwitting effort to complete the job begun by a different gaggle of fanatics on 9/11. Canada also takes…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 6, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Attorney general on Capitol attack: ‘The actions we have taken thus far will not be our last’ #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – CBC News reports that Saskatchewan’s children’s hospital is among the health care facilities with an internal outbreak, while Laura Sciarpelletti talks to…
Businesses received $26 billion more in pandemic relief money than individuals
The influence of the private sector paid off for business owners, as they received more pandemic relief money collectively than individuals did. Justin Trudeau’s federal government came out with a…