Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Outsider cats.
May 2022
The United States specializes in exaggerating the threat
Soldiers salute the American flag at Camp Taji, Iraq, March 18, 2020. Photo by Caroline Schofer/US Army. Every day we gather evidence of the pathetic performance of the Russian military…
The hopeless malaise of the Ontario election
Progressive Conservative Party leader Doug Ford. Photo courtesy QP Briefing. Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservatives spent the election in Ontario hiding from protestors, the press, and the public. Ahead…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 31, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Police charge man who allegedly showed up to North York Jewish school with weapon and said ‘I want to kill Jews’ #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3x2F3Lv – Garry…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kimberlyn McGrail examines the excess deaths caused by COVID-19 in Canada. Eric Berger discusses the continued lack of progress in diagnosing and…
My latest: Doug vs. Pierre
This is a tale of two “Conservatives.” We say “Conservative” in quotation marks to make a point. And the point is this: Doug Ford and Pierre Poilievre may be notionally,…
Canada votes against health care for Palestinians at the World Health Assembly
World Health Organization headquarters, Geneva. Photo by Yann Forget/Wikimedia Commons. On May 25, 2022, the World Health Assembly held a vote regarding the dire health conditions in occupied Palestine. The…
Art wall dilemma
Art wall verdict: too much art, not enough wall. pic.twitter.com/0FSTWB7bPz — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 31, 2022
Biker Chaos
Recently, Justin Trudeau had to cancel a public appearance in British Columbia. Michael Harris writes: The RCMP decided that it would not be safe for Justin Trudeau to make a…
Simran Bakshi on Workplace and Employment Law: Another Blow to Employers – There is no saving a Termination Provision that is in part illegal
What happens if one provision in a section on termination of employment is unenforceable, but not another? The Court of Appeal considered this question in Waksdale v Swegon North America…
Pavlov Had His Bell
… and the dogs responded accordingly. Marjorie Taylor Greene has her “peach tree dishes,” also guaranteed to get the MAGA dogs salivating, even baying. Marjorie Taylor Greene says the government…
Canada Implements Handgun Ban
Mass shootings in the USA have tripled in the last few decades with mass shootings becoming an almost daily occurrence. Canadians are no strangers to mass shoutings either, with too…
They Lie, You Know.
Leaked memos, a quiet word with someone ‘in the know.’ You hear a lot of tall tales from politicians as they come to the end of their campaign. It is…
Today’s News: American Grotesque
Nuts! Sorry, I should say: Both the Uvalde *and* the Buffalo shooting are being characterized as false flag operations. Even worse! — Justin Ling (@Justin_Ling) May 31, 2022 The idea…
The UCP’s summers of shrinking ambition: from the Summer of Repeal to the Summer of Resignation via the Best Summer Ever
Do you remember that time Jason Kenney promised a Summer of Repeal? A recent shot of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney during the lead-up to the Summer of Resignation, which will…
U.S Second Amendment—the most abused law in history?
Once again mass shootings stalk America. Ten dead in Buffalo, 21 in Uvalde, Texas. In less than two weeks. Both shooters were teenagers. Once again there are loud outcries for…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bruce Arthur is rightly frustrated by an attitude of utter denial and amnesia toward a pandemic still in progress. And Fenit Nirappil, Craig…
what i’m reading: animal, vegetable, junk: a history of food, from sustainable to suicidal, by mark bittman
Mark Bittman’s Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal is a fascinating, readable, and wide-ranging nonfiction. With clear and simple language, Bittman unpacks the many threads…
The impasse of the Latin American left
The Impasse of the Latin American Left Franck Gaudichaud, Jeffery R. Webber, and Massimo Modonesi Duke University Press, 2022 Can the firebrand Hugo Chávez, with his embrace of ”21st century…
Right v. Left in Modern Politics
There’s a lot of palaver on social media about right v. left (or left v. right if you are so inclined), with webs of comments about the differences between these…