Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gavin Yamey, Abraar Karan and Ranu Dhillon write that the COVID pandemic is far from over even in the U.S. where the Omicron…
February 2022
OMG, quick – call the paramedics, get me a specialist in forearm neurology! Fetch me my fainting couch!
Does anyone remember walking through the snow to school or having to use an outhouse in winter? Nevermind our not-so-distant ancestors having to survive without telephones or electricity and having…
OMG, quick – call the paramedics, get me a specialist in forearm neurology! Fetch me my fainting couch!
Does anyone remember walking through the snow to school or having to use an outhouse in winter? Nevermind our not-so-distant ancestors having to survive without telephones or electricity and having…
Covid Journal, Feb 16, 2022 (What the Truck Edition)
Did Trudeau just help the world avoid WWIII? Read my blog to find out how … The post Covid Journal, Feb 16, 2022 (What the Truck Edition) first appeared on…
Every weakness is claimed as strength
Worker in protective gear near the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, Hubei Province. Photo courtesy Chinatopix/AP. Social Contagion: and Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China Chuang Charles H.…
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 16, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Alec Baldwin and others named in wrongful death lawsuit filed by family of Halyna Hutchins #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Leftists must oppose the suppression of dissent—even when we disagree with the dissenters
Kettling at the G20 Summit in Toronto, 2010. Photo by Jonas Naimark/Wikimedia Commons. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say…
Rewriting The Dictionary
Shree Paradkar writes that the Right “have successfully co-opted a noble ideal of liberty for all into a vehicle for far-right grievances to mean the opposite: liberty for a few…
Survey says: thick and lustrous!
The Omicronvoy Freedumb folks are trying to figure out what to call me. Help them out! — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 9, 2022 The post Survey says: thick and lustrous!…
His Father’s Son.
In 1970, when prime minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, I disagreed. It was an over-reaction to some clumsy lawbreakers. When his son invoked the 1988 version of…
Beware the Ides of March: Date set for by-election in which all candidates will campaign against Alberta’s premier
After dragging his feet for weeks, Jason Kenney yesterday named a date for the Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche by-election in which his long-time rival Brian Jean will run for the…
Today’s News: The police might hug them. But the accountants never will
I found twitter to be in a bit of a lull today. Proclaiming the Emergencies Act gave us expectations that the FluTruxKlan will be arrested, broke or out of gas…
If you aren’t worried, you aren’t paying attention
Once again, the Windsor Star's Anne Jarvis hits the nail squarely on the head. One wonders how many death threats and harassing emails this column will earn her from the…
it’s grifters all the way down
My job does not always bring me joy, but this week while editing travel pages I ran across this phrase that made me laugh out loud: "Awakening from the Mūhala…
the woodshed 2022-02-16 00:00:00
Once again, the Windsor Star’s Anne Jarvis hits the nail squarely on the head. One wonders how many death threats and harassing emails this column will earn her from the…
it’s grifters all the way down
My job does not always bring me joy, but this week while editing travel pages I ran across this phrase that made me laugh out loud: “Awakening from the Mūhala…
The Slow Collapse Of The Con Terrorist Truckers
The Con terrorist assault on our country has been going on for more than two weeks, but at last the trucker thugs are showing signs of surrendering. At the Ambassador…
My latest: without the rule of law, we have nothing
The rule of law. It’s a phrase we hear a lot in times like these. It’s tossed around like confetti, I think, until it becomes as trivial as confetti. But…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Helpful cats.
Neoliberalism, racism, assimilation
SFU Assistant Professor Kyle Willmott finds neoliberalism behind calls for assimilation and the rewriting of history to elevate racist abuses to “remarkable works” and “good deeds.” Dr. Willmott identifies the…