Love and Sorrow
I’ve recently started reading Martha Crawford’s blog and following her on Twitter. She’s a therapist in remission from cancer. I want to keep this particularly beautiful and timely thread to…
June 2022
Top Story of June 10, 2022? Former President Trump Tried a Coup
“Trump was at the center of this conspiracy,” Chairman Thompson said in his opening remarks at the first public Jan. 6 hearing. https://t.co/8gqmTtTpTW pic.twitter.com/8SFan1xZNA — MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 10, 2022…
Ontario election post-mortem: Strategy shift needed for the progressive left?
On paper, one could argue there were winning odds stacked for the progressive electoral left in Ontario ahead of the 2022 provincial election. Doug Ford as premier of Ontario mishandled…
the day in shelter cove
View from Wedding Point, Shelter Cove Yesterday was amazing and so special. My niece E took me on a tour of the little community and local topography. We went to…
Prominent Canadian and international advocates urge Trudeau to back TRIPS waiver
In the lead-up to the upcoming WTO ministerial meetings, key figures in the global movement for vaccine justice are calling on the Canadian government to change its position on lifting…
Ontario election: Where did 825,000 swing voters go?
On June 2, after four turbulent and often chaotic years, Ontario voters handed Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservative party a second majority government. Every single PC cabinet minister was…
A Teachable Moment
Last night, the House Select Committee investigating Trump and Co.’s attempted coup held its first hearing. It aimed to educate. It did that in spades. Jennifer Rubin writes: The challenge…
Bitumen Bust.
It seems the Oil Gods have looked down on Alberta’s tar sands bitumen and damned it to further discounting. It would seem that at a time when the world needs…
Today’s News: Carnage. Chaos. Criminal.
Wow, did you see this tonight? Carnage. Chaos. Criminal.#January6th wasn’t a random event. It was a coordinated, deliberate conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. pic.twitter.com/mrzoJG6W4M — American Progress (@amprog) June…
Leonard Peltier Shares His Indian Boarding School Story [NativeNewsOnline.net]
Leonard Peltier and his sister, Betty Ann, circa 1950 before they were forcibly removed from the home of their grandmother and sent to the Wahpeton Indian School, an Indian boarding…
Alberta’s UCP government may be in transition, but its hostile communications style is unchanged
CALGARY – According to the minister of health’s press secretary, there was “no error, and no undue delay” in the case of an 86-year-old Calgary woman who bled to death…
I Did Not Know That
While I am perhaps understandably loathe to do the work of Doug Food’s Ontario government, I feel an obligation to post about something I learned this morning. In what is…
greetings from shelter cove, california (look it up!)
I am at the home of my niece E and her partner T, in a remote part of California known as the “Lost Coast”. It is so beautiful and peaceful…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Gloria Oladipo reports on the spread of two new Omicron subvariants (BA.4 and BA.5) across the U.S., while Rahul Suryawanshi et al.…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 9, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘It’s amazing in a sad way’: Handgun sales are ‘insane’ after Ottawa unveiled plan to ban them, store owners say #law #legal #lawtwitter https://bit.ly/3Qeeafp – Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
How Queen Elizabeth saved the monarchy
First things first, let me be perfectly clear: I am a devout anti-monarchist. Everything about it is impossibly stupid, and diametrically opposite of everything democracy is supposed to be. Even…
Privatization is a climate killer
When it comes to infrastructure sectors with significant emissions, privatization can have dire consequences for climate goals. Photo by Dustin Phillips/Flickr. Governments are trying to convince us that privatization and…
Slouching Toward Extinction?
For the second consecutive election, the Ontario Liberal Party has failed to achieve official party status. Is the party slouching toward extinction? Susan Delacourt writes: Is there anything about the…
My latest: listen up, fellow Albertans
Dear Alberta: Yes: I was Special Assistant to that dastardly Liberal Prime Minister, Jean Chretien. Yes: I worked on the presidential campaigns of the two Democratic Horsepeople of the Apocalypse,…
Pay attention
WATCH FOR TURTLES. I found this dead mom on the Parkway this morning. I found two others who were alive, and moved them. It’s June, and the turtles are coming…