An Ill Wind
The bullies are in the catbird seat. Marsha Lederman writes: We are living in what is increasingly a culture of meanness and bullying. And that bullying is infecting not just…
November 2022
Strikes Work for Everybody: How We Got Maternity Leave
Presently in Ontario the Conservative governemnt has used “the nuclear option” to take away rights from workers. Not going to lie: it’s really bad, like Canadian Charter of Rights are…
Ontario government greets education workers with an iron fist
Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce. Photo from Twitter. Not content simply to suppress the wages of public workers across the province, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government of Doug Ford has fired…
Letting Lecce Learn?
I heard over the grapevine the other day that the word on Ontario education minister Stephen Lecce is that he is too old to be handsome and too young to…
Friday funnies
Just some of the funny stuff collected this week: Darn right, Mercedes. ???All Canadians should write letters to our president in Winnipeg asking for that very thing. — editorsneedlovetoo (@editorsneedlov1)…
As by-election test nears for UCP Premier Danielle Smith, new poll shows NDP in majority territory
“We are going to beat the NDP in rural Alberta, we are going to beat the NDP in Edmonton, and we are going to beat the NDP in Calgary,” shouts…
Night, day
Bit of an experiment. Did two at same time. Day and night. pic.twitter.com/DjibN2vIzz — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 4, 2022
Mr. Musk Unmasked
Once more, Unlearn16 reveals something important, and her observations I could not disagree with. Yesterday, she pierced the facade perpetrated by the Ford government about the soon-to-be striking school support…
something new: in which i defend pit bulls challenge bigotry without losing my cool
I was at a nail salon. Not an upscale spa, a loud, basic, ramshackle kind of nail salon. Two women sitting side by side for pedicures were speaking loudly and…
A Panel of Experts on Ending the Covid Public Health Threat
Several medical professionals that I follow on Twitter have excitedly announced the arrival of this joint article: A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat, in Nature.…
The time is now for real resistance to Ford’s austerity agenda
Supporters of education workers demonstrate in Toronto, November 1, 2022. Photo courtesy CUPE Ontario/Twitter. It has been whirlwind week for labour in Ontario. On November 2, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government…
What worries the United States most about Lula
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks at the national congress of the PT party in 2017. Photo by Lula Marques/Agência PT. President Joe Biden kept a promise to Luiz Inácio…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Armine Yalnizyan writes that in the face of an impending self-inflicted recession, governments should be using their available resources (and taxing the…
Pandemic lessons for rebuilding Canada’s welfare state
Photo by Tania Liu/Flickr In what now seems like a distant memory, the early stages of the pandemic gave rise to a host of hopeful prognostications about the urgency of…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 3, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizer Pat King, lawyer to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3SWoicM – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Why isn’t Canadian media condemning Nazi collaborator Roman Shukhevych?
The Roman Shukhevych statue at the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex in Edmonton. Photo courtesy CTV News. Last year, a statue in Edmonton honouring Roman Shukhevych, a Nazi collaborator and a…
Contracts Of Difference
Pierre Poilievre is a one-trick pony. His message is simple and he repeats it constantly. Taxes — all taxes — are bad. Chief among the taxes Poilievre wants to eliminate…
Pee-Pee, Where Are You?
Our Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre (Pee-Pee) has vanished. Our new leader of Canada’s conservatives is among the missing. After all the hoopla around his winning the leadership, you would think…
National convoy inquiry not going as hoped? Preston Manning plans partisan pandemic panel
Now that the national inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act has turned its spotlight on the organizers of last February’s occupation of Ottawa and various border blockades, and…
How fares the emperor?
Xi Jinping has it all: general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, chairman of the Central Military Commission, commander-in-chief of the People’s Liberation Army, and the Politburo Standing Committee filled…