CUPE education workers and supporters amass at Queen’s Park to protest after the Ontario government enacted the notwithstanding clause to legislate a contract on the union. Photo courtesy OPSEU. In…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Katie Camero discusses how the belief that the COVID-19 pandemic is over (pushed by businesses and politicians eager to avoid responsibility for…
When it comes to the American economy, things are going Joe Biden’s way. Jennifer Rubin writes: The Post reports: “Prices cooled again in November, rising 7.1 percent compared with last…
It was a bad day last Monday for federal conservative leader MP Pierre Poilievre. We were watching for his secret weapon in the Mississauga-Lakeshore bye-election It seems the secret weapon…
The chiefs of the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations emerged from their first meeting with Danielle Smith yesterday clearly unimpressed with the Alberta premier’s glib patter about the significance…
This may take you a minute but just wait, you’ll get it soon: We are starting to get into the “end of the year” takes where people are summarizing what…
Sandy Hook was ten years ago. If the slaughter of 20 six-year-olds couldn't end America's fetish for guns, nothing ever will. Ever. pic.twitter.com/WXWIUXJtkM — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 14, 2022
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King is a compelling, fascinating, impeccably researched, and…
RevivalCare‘s erudite answer on Twitter to Breakfast Television’s question: What do you think the federal government should do to help alleviate the current healthcare crisis? Provide free universal N95s to…
Fusion power has been just a decade away for decades, or at least that was the joke. Yesterday it became outdated because it was revealed that nuclear fusion was ignited,…
As a man, should I be embarrassed to admit I didn’t know this was a thing? I guess we can all rest easier knowing that Big Parma is on the…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Toronto cop files $30M complaint against police association alleging it sided with sexual abusers #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3HBlLTp – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
A jade mine in Myanmar. Photo by Hosana Chay/NRGI Myanmar/Flickr. “False solutions” In our ways, spiritual consciousness is the highest form of politics. The people who are living on this…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Madeleine Ngo discusses how Americans (particularly with lower incomes) have been forced to spend any nest egg they managed to build up from…
Do by-elections, which usually have notoriously low turnout, matter? We get told general campaigns do, all the time. But what about by-elections? Should we care — and should we care…
The Conference Board of Canada makes four recommendations for innovation in Canada. It’s based on a self-styled ‘report card’ that ranks Canada as a ‘C’ on innovation (the U.S. and…
How is Pierre Poilievre doing? If the recent byelection in suburban Toronto is a signal, you’d have to say, “Not well.” Max Fawcett writes: Mississauga-Lakeshore is a suburban Ontario riding…
Hospitals in provinces other than Ontario have 18% more staff than hospitals in Ontario. Much, but not all of this is due to low levels of inpatient staffing in Ontario.…
Ukrainian artillerymen from the 24th brigade load an ammunition inside of a 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer at a position along the front line in the vicinity of Bakhmut, Donetsk region.…
It is beginning to seem we are living in a banana republic with premier Ford and his conservative government. The other day, the Ontario government officially asked the Red Cross…
