https://modernpoetryintranslation.com/alla-gutnikovas-speech-from-court-friday-8-april-2022/ Alla Gutnikova’s speech from the Russian court as she is to be sentenced for standing for peace, for our shared humanity, for hope, for art, for our emancipation.
For 23 years, we ran a “home ICU” for our son Nicholas. Nick was born with severe cerebral palsy and he is very medically complex. Moving from crisis to crisis…
You should never ignore a political party’s pamphlets. They tell you so much about how they think—or, in some cases, do not think. In this phony war before the real…
DeAdder does such great cartoons, doesn’t he. And yes, I also believe that the only reason Elon Musk is interested in Twitter is because Trump desperately wants to tweet again.…
The Criminal Code may come under federal jurisdiction, but the Kenney Government wants the substantial number of “law-abiding gun owners” in its base to know every now and then that…
Why are Americans so much more authoritarian than Canadians? According to a survey by American business intelligence company Morning Consult, the U.S. has twice as many right-wing authoritarians as Canada…
Fink – Looking Too Closely
While there have been some aspects of the Saskatchewan NDP’s post-election review (PDF) which involved conflicting currents within the party, one of the few possibilities which seems to have been…
“The Congress of Vienna,” watercolour etching by August Friedrich Andreas Campe (1777-1846), in the collection of the State Borodino War and History Museum, Moscow. One hundred years after the First…
Assorted content for your Friday reading. – Gavin Yamey et al. observe that a push for vaccine equity – and the retention of public health measures until it can be…
Liverpool fans hold up banners commemorating those who lost their lives in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. Photo by Andrew Cowie/AFP. The following article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 edition…
I have been working to bring order to the electronic congestion and confusion on my computer. That is a slow process since I keep finding old material to read. One…
If anything could have annoyed us more, it was those damn demonstrators in Ottawa and at border crossings, waving the Canadian flag. These people were not respecting the flag nor…
(Image from Daily Kos) A few weeks ago, in response to someone’s tweet about Russia vehicle movements in Ukraine, I replied “Spring is coming”. It seemed to confuse people –…
Happy Easter! Alberta Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). On Monday we asked if Athabasca University’s administration had gone rogue and was defying the Kenney Government with plans…
A US District Court judge has slammed former president Donald Trump as a “charlatan” and a menace to American democracy. A federal judge on Thursday called Donald Trump a threat…
There’s an affordable housing problem in Canada. It’s a problem that has confronted other countries also and they have shown us how to fix it. Hint: the answer isn’t building…
They knew. They all knew. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans knew. The last Conservative government knew. The Trudeau government knew. And they made it their secret. Canada was warned…
Russia is threatening its neighbours with nukes again. Moscow has said it will be forced to strengthen its defences in the Baltic if Finland and Sweden join Nato, including by…
In 2019 I wrote a guide for people to help them decide which vehicle type saved them more money: an affordable used EV with a solar panel grid-tied system, or…
