My latest: the choleric convoy
Anger. Because let’s all agree that this weekend’s big trucker protest in Ottawa isn’t about anything else. It just isn’t. Oh, sure, some claim that it’s about vaccinations. But that’s…
January 2022
O’Toole Autopsied. It Ain’t Pretty.
Conservatives are wondering how in hell they lost the last election? A post-mortem review might have them asking how they did so well. The last Conservative campaign suffered from eroded…
Nikiforuk – Let’s Just Pretend It’s Over
Andrew Nikiforuk pierces the curtain of political obfuscation on Covid-19. His message – it’s all horsecrap. I come on behalf of many of Canada’s public health officials, along with our…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Stephanie Carvin, Kurt Phillips and Amarnath Amarasingam discuss how anti-vaxx themes in Canada are being pushed and used by the fascist right.…
Indicted By Their Words
H/t Theo Moudakis I find myself singularly uninterested in the so-called freedom convoy making its way to Ottawa. Peopled by many rabid-anti-vaxxers and those filled with a messianic zeal in…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates January 25, 2022
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Is This "Climate Departure"?
In 2013, climate scientists at the University of Hawaii, analyzing a small mountain of recent data, discerned change afoot. It is a region’s departure from its previous climate to a…
Weakness and paranoia are behind the Western war scare
Ukrainian armoured military units near Sloviansk, July 2014. Photo by Sasha Maksymenko/Flickr. Western political and media circles are convinced that Russia has decided to invade Ukraine. They frequently speculate that…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 27, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario’s crackdown on COVID-19 vaccine medical exemptions seems to be working #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
The Wakeup Call?
This space has been a bit quiet for a while, mostly because I’ve been quite busy and haven’t had the time to write. It’s not that I haven’t had anything…
Breyer Retires
U.S.Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has announced his retirement. Linda Greenhouse writes that he was the right man in the wrong age: Justice Breyer’s belief in the power of facts,…
Want to be more Creative? Use a Schedule
Depictions of creativity in popular culture show people getting a sudden spark or realization that sets them off. The creative idea or moment arrives randomly. Unfortunately that’s not the best…
Plague Update: Worst Among Us
I practically couldn’t believe this, except I know BoJo is not a fine bloke. Boris Johnson considered being injected with COVID-19 on live TV: ex-adviser Man too stupid to realize…
Imagining the disappeared
Chilean mothers of the “disappeared” gather in front of the La Moneda Palace in Santiago, holding signs of their missing loved ones. Photo by Kena Lorenzini/Wikimedia Commons. “The destruction brought…
As soon as the shit hits the fan…
With unprecedented sea level rise forecast as a result of climate change, the Dutch government is racing against the clock to figure out how to keep one of the world’s…
A Caravan of Hate.
They are driving across our country and the anger is growing against them. These fools and their backers are doing nothing but building anger and frustration across the country. Truckers…
UCP MLAs on Legislature committee block Auditor General from reporting findings on how government handled COVID-19
Alberta’s Auditor-General has completed six performance audits of the United Conservative Party Government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as you may already have seen on social media, Doug Wylie…
The Terrorist Convoy and the Con’s Fatal Mistake
At least nobody can accuse me of not trying to warn Canadians about the FreeDumb convoy. Warn them that it had a heart of darkness, and that it could be…
If France could survive Nazis, we can survive Covid
As we continue to fight this invisible enemy in Year 2 of World War C, perhaps we should take inspiration from France. No, not France of 2022. France of 1940.…
Right-wing news outlet “True North” posts misleading vaccination statistics
True North, a conservative-leaning news site, has published a highly misleading article that seems to attempt to undermine vaccine effectiveness. It’s actually kind of shocking how bad it is. Putting…