Weekend: Music, and Animal Crackers
Hey, Gangnam Style was 10 years old as of Friday! And Psy is still going stong – he has now released 9 albums and is on tour again this summer.…
July 2022
UCP leadership candidate calls appointment of Collin May as Human Rights chief ‘a significant problem’
United Conservative Party leadership candidate Rajan Sawhney yesterday issued a statement saying “it is a significant problem” that the new chief of the Alberta Human Rights Commission made “pejorative comments…
Have the Cons Finally Blown Up Their Party?
It was yet another perfect blue sky day, and I was feeling even sunnier than usual. So I thought that instead of writing about the ugliness of the Cons, I…
Canada joins US in militarizing the Pacific
Ships from the US Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Royal Australian Navy, and Royal Canadian Navy during Annual Exercise (ANNUALEX) 19. US Navy photo courtesy of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force/Flickr.…
2022 ‘mining risk index’ takes aim at left wing governments in Latin America
Pedro Castillo, the president of Peru, speaks during a rally in Lima. Photo from Shutterstock. On July 7, 2022, Florida-based market research firm Americas Market Intelligence (AMI) released a report…
KINSELLACAST 219: Lilley, Agar, Mraz on fist bumps and fisticuffs – plus GBV, Tacocat, Colleen Green
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates July 12, 2022
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Not True Enough
Althia Raj writes that there are several theories circulating about why Patrick Brown was booted out of the Conservative leadership race: Former NDP leader Thomas Mulcair claimed this week that…
Alberta’s Angst.
It was a long time ago, that as a teenage member of the Canadian Air Force, I drove from North Bay, Ontario to Cold Lake, Alberta. It was part of…
Today’s News: The Tale of the Ten-Year-Old
The Tale of the Ten-year Old has now become a shameful part of American history for Republicans and for American media. Every conservative thought experiment about the pregnant 10 year…
UCP appoints lawyer who wrote favourable review of book denigrating Islam to lead Human Rights Commission
Notwithstanding serious concerns raised about Collin May’s past praise for a tendentious book denigrating the Islamic faith, the United Conservative Party Government proceeded on Thursday with his controversial appointment as…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Saturday reading. – Jennifer Lee reports on the newly-released documents confirming that Alberta’s lifting of COVID protections was purely a matter of political oneupmanship rather than…
National Post Letter
Electoral reform opponents are once again pulling out the old Israel canard. I’ve responded with a letter attempting to set the record straight in today’s National Post: Electoral reform Re:…
Saturday Photo: Trees and the City
It’s hot today, and the trees in this part of town offer a welcome respite. The shadows are dense in the morning, and people are seeking them out. Planting street…
It May Not Survive
Ruth Marcus — who writes a column in The Washington Post — holds a law degree from Harvard. She admits that she was skeptical about prosecuting Donald Trump: Not so…
Upgrades are Unsettling.
A beleaguered Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has demanded that Rogers Communications explain to the commission what caused the catastrophic failure in their network last week. Frankly, the failure was…
Today’s News: Shot / chaser
The shot: From six years ago The chaser: From Friday Obviously the news agenda for at LEAST the next 72 hours is CANCELLED while we decide what we think about…
Musical interlude
Kalax feat. Pyxis, Jay Diggs – Out of Time
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 15, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: 10-year-old girl should have carried pregnancy to term, says lawyer who drafted model anti-abortion law #law #legal #lawtwitter via @ABAJournal https://bit.ly/3OcvzCX – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…