True Valour
People who know me know that sports has a big place in my life. Growing up I loved to play sports, in high school and into university. I was never…
March 2022
US Freedom Convoy Gets a Flat
2,000 trucks were expected to make the first leg of the Los Angeles to Washington Freedom Convoy. By the time these protest truckers reach Las Vegas they had amassed a…
Cold War II. It Won’t Be Your Grandpa’s Cold War
Cold War II seems to be upon us. The bad news is that it has come on extremely rapidly. The good news – there isn’t any. Mary Elise Sarotte is…
Because Nobody Wants to Hear About Climate Change
Guardian cartoonist, Martin Rowson, sums up the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
If Liquor Stores Nix Russian Vodka, Why Can’t Netflix Ditch Steven Segal?
Self-styled tough guy Steven Seagal is not only a terrible actor with a bad hairpiece but a fast friend of Vlad Putin. He’s also, somehow, for some reason, still making…
Short, But Not So Sweet (For Some)
As always, Mrs. Betty Bowers nails it, quite succinctly. Recommend this Post
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 1, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Court extends rare order to freeze up to $20M in crypto, cash donations to convoy protests #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/346XgvY – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard discusses the reality that long COVID will result in lasting aftereffects even if we eventually manage to get the spread…
How Canada’s support for NATO expansion led to the Ukraine tragedy
Justin Trudeau attends a NATO Summit in Warsaw, July 9, 2016. Photo courtesy the Prime Minister’s Office. Moscow’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has been condemned around the world. The suffering…
Chilling Words
Ever since Putin started massing troops along Ukraine’s eastern border, I’ve been wondering exactly what Russia’s objectives really were. Put aside the propaganda from Russia about Ukraine posing some kind…
Selling Their Souls
Mitt Romney has finally said what the rest of the world has known for some time. There are members of his party who are morons — and proud white supremacists.…
12 reasons bojack horseman is my favourite show of all time (thoughts after re-watch)
Allan and I first watched “BoJack Horseman” in real time, from 2014 to January 2020. We liked it from the start, but as the show deepened in meaning and intensity,…
Fight Book Bans by Reading These Books
Movements in the United States are trying to ban a number of works of fictions which they deem to be problematic. The problem, as they see it, is that certain…
A US court just laid out the flaws in Canada’s climate plan
Oilsands reclamation site and Syncrude operations. Photo by Julia Kilpatrick/Pembina Institute/Flickr. In January, a United States federal court invalidated a series of oil and gas leases based on the federal…
What was the Freedom Convoy?
Trucks in downtown Ottawa during the Freedom Convoy protest. Photo by Maksim Sokolov/Wikimedia Commons. It’s been a dizzying few weeks in Canadian politics. As the Emergencies Act is revoked, the…
Recognizing Leadership.
The other day, we mentioned that every candidate for the liberal party in the coming provincial election in Ontario needs to demonstrate leadership. It is not that the party does…
Today’s News: the "Before Times" are gone
I tell you, I’m getting very very tired of the 2020s. If I could return them for a refund, I sure would. I had been thinking of the days before…
Russian vodka disappears from Alberta shelves – but what about Russian pipeline steel and AIMCo’s Russian investment fund?
On Sunday, Premier Jason Kenney announced the provincial government has directed the Alberta Gaming, Liquor, and Cannabis Commission to stop accepting Russian-made liquor products and to quit selling current stock…
Making sense of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
What has become clear is that Canadian and American media are manufacturing consent, and presenting the Russian invasion of Ukraine outside of its historical context. The act of invasion is…