Saturday Photo: Fathers’ Day Gathering
Scene last Sunday at the Lachine Rapids: a couple of geese families enjoying a picnic while the Old Guy watches. Geese are quite tame and not at all bothered by…
June 2022
The Ugly Cons and the War On Women
It's another American horror show, in a country where there are so many. But this one is different. It's a horror story on an epic scale, a genocidal scale. It's…
the end of roe: a day we expected for so long still has the power to shock and stun us
We’ve been expecting this for 20 years. More than forty years of anti-abortion legislation, escalating every year and every decade, then Trump, then finally, the leaked draft. So I thought…
Ugly Truth
Michael Kinsley famously wrote that: “It used to be, there was truth and there was falsehood. Now there is spin and there are gaffes. Spin is often thought to be…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Geoff Thompson reports on new research showing that the cognitive decline caused by COVID-19 is worse than previously known, while the European…
A familiar Alberta Tune.
They are at again in Alberta. The lunatic fringe is getting worked up for a new conservative leadership contest. And they are playing familiar tunes for the crazies. I guess…
Palate cleansers
What an awful couple of days, and its not going to get any better next week. SCOTUS still has more cases to announce (including another gun case). And Canadians are…
The End of the Road?
In the early history of humanity there were a couple of instances where our species came close to disappearing. Yet we hung on and tens of thousands of years later…
The Cancer Diaries, Part 31
It’s been about eight months since I last penned a post about my ongoing experience with prostate cancer, my subsequent surgery, treatment, my recovery from treatment and what’s happened since.…
Truly, He Is A Man Of The People
I have a friend, subversive in his own way, who joined the Conservative Party for $15. He is entitled to thus vote in the September leadership election. I’m think he…
Trudeau silent on police crackdown in Ecuador
Police in Ecuador’s capital, Quito, fire tear gas to disperse Indigenous protesters rallying against soaring fuel prices and living costs, June 2022. Photo by Ivan Alvarado. Since mid-June, protests have…
Some Animals
The United States Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. The decision is an earthquake to the American legal system. Ruth Marcus writes: The Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate the…
#SKNDPLDR Roundup
A brief roundup of news and coverage from the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign as Sunday’s convention approaches. – There’s been some more media coverage at a high level, including Adam…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mary Ziegler and Scott Lemieux both warn of the many other rights in imminent danger due to both the fact of the elimination…
Today’s News: The War on Women
The loss of abortion rights in the United States is the news of the day — the US Supreme Court has overturned Roe V Wade, redefining women’s rights and allowing…
“In the Belly of the Beast.”
We spent most of the past week in the Ottawa area. We stayed with family in the middle of Carleton electoral district. We visited in downtown Ottawa and out past…
As predicted, Canadian Conservatives want you to shut up about U.S. Supreme Court’s repugnant Roe v. Wade ruling
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling stripping half the United States’ 330 million people of their constitutional right to abortion, Canadian conservatives were busy trying to deny…
The Doctor Who Fooled the World
I rarely do book reviews. Nor do I often suggest books to read. But every once in a while I come across one that is simply too good to just…