Not a Creature Was Stirring.
The House of Commons sits vacant. Workers’ tools are scattered here and there, ready to be picked up as restoration resumes. And yet, it is the ghosts of politicians past…
The House of Commons sits vacant. Workers’ tools are scattered here and there, ready to be picked up as restoration resumes. And yet, it is the ghosts of politicians past…
From time to time, Calgary Herald columnist Rick Bell has been used by Alberta Conservatives to float their trial balloons. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). So when Mr.…
One of the lasting impacts of the pandemic, I think, will be the destruction of the “downtown office” concept as an organizing principle for cities. Historically, it has always taken…
National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. On the second night of Hanukkah, the Postmedia-owned Ottawa Citizen published a crude piece of gross Holocaust revisionism from a Ukrainian…
The other day, one of my sons asked a seemingly silly question: do kids still play with toys? At first, I thought the question was weird, but as he explained,…
Volodomyr Zelenskyy paid a surprise visit to Joe Biden this week. It was really, really important. For starters, it was the Ukrainian president’s first trip outside his country since Vladimir…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Julia Doubleday writes that we shouldn’t accept spin from any party which attempts to minimize the unacceptable dangers of exposing children to a…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ombudsman releases scathing report after Toronto boy, 10, found malnourished and living in squalor #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3GavbUF – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
My apologies for titling this post with a cliché, but it seems particularly apt given who is really behind the plan to degrade our greenspace and wetlands, also known as…
There’s a cartoon showing how many people still think that COVID-19 is just like chicken pox, and you aren’t likely to get a symptomatic infection another time while healthy, so…
In today’s age of populism, with ideology apparently dead, how do you now if you are on the left or right or in the centre. There are indeed some basic…
Elon Musk’s meltdown reminds us — yet again — that we live in the Age of the Petulant Oligarch. Paul Krugman writes: As The Times’s Kevin Roose recently pointed out,…
Photo by Sascha Grosser/Wikimedia Commons Economies around the world were shocked and damaged over the course of 2022. Global capitalism had been brewing conflicts among the major powers (the United…
There are 3 basic ways in which most simple Estates may be required to pay taxes. 1. If all or part of your state is being submitted to Probate, you’ll…
Lentils (and other pulses) are a fantastic way to save money, but did you know it’s good for your health and the planet? Researchers have concluded that if people who…
We should all wait patiently for the time soon when we have to admit that democracy might be a ghost. A ghost is something that people talk about but we…
Watchful cats.
Along with Greta Thunberg and Naomi Klein, The Guardian presented on video three other panelists, Prof. Saleem Huq, Prof. Kate Raworth and Ayisha Siddiqa. The panelists did a great job…
Image: Heise Magazine Today Alex Tarkowski launched a 24-part Twitter thread into the digisphere expanding on his views about participatory governance and fediverse. It builds on his article Priorities to…
New one. Got tired of waiting for Bell, Jeep, et al., so started painting a spot PEC folks might know. pic.twitter.com/3tvf8qAe6X — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 20, 2022