Marsh marigold moment
New one. Marsh marigolds. May tweak it. pic.twitter.com/h9jQqF7cdu — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 25, 2022
2022
To address the incarceration of Indigenous women, dismantle the system
If we want to address the incarceration of Indigenous peoples, we need to imagine a world beyond policing and prisons, writes Abby Stadnyk. Image from iStock. In December 2021, Canada’s…
Global Capitalism Has Become Dependent on War-Making to Sustain Itself [William Robinson, Truthout]
The Pentagon, as seen from an airplane over Washington, D.C., on February 19, 2020.Xinhua / Liu Jie via Getty Images By William I. Robinson, Originally published on Truthout April 24,…
Saunderson’s Your Guy
With the provincial election only a few days away, I thought I should remind you why you might want to vote for Collingwood’s much-disliked, hypocritical, bullying, and inept mayor, Brian…
Huawei ban undermines Canadian and world security
Last week, the Government of Canada announced it will ban two of China’s biggest telecoms equipment makers from working on its 5G phone networks. University of Victoria professor John Price…
The Hits Keep Coming
Yesterday, a man picked up a gun and killed 18 students in an elementary school in Texas. This morning a candidate for the leadership of the CPC promised to burn…
Paltry Offerings – Part 5
The same, of course, can be said of the other two major contenders in the June 2 election. H/t Moudakis Given the dearth of plausible ideas put forth during this…
Response to missing miners proves real Canadian motives in Africa
Burkina Faso Prime Minister Albert Ouédraogo (centre, in blue hat) visits Perkoa Mine on May 1, where eight miners were trapped following a flood more than 520 metres beneath the…
Trump Of The North
In his quest for the leadership of the Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre is following Donald Trump’s playbook. Susan Delacourt writes: Show him an institution and Poilievre will knock it down…
Kenney’s Comeuppance.
Jason Kenney is leaving the building. He is a political has been. I first noticed him in 2007 when he was a parliamentary secretary to prime minister Stephen Harper. Harper…
For Uvalde
‘ What a tragedy. Here are some of the lives lost at the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas today: These are the Lives that were taken today at Robb elementary…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Focused cats.
Power’s back on at the cabin.
And my security camera caught a pretty awesome moment.
Bradford on brainless Beach bastards
@BradMBradford speaks for a lot of us here. Enough is enough. #topoli #onpoli https://t.co/OweniJCxOA — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 25, 2022
We have new books for a frightening brightening 2022
There may yet be a few copies of It’s A LondOntLife #1 at Brown & Dickson. We are really negligent. We’ll have to check. But the last one we physically…
We have new books for a frightening brightening 2022
There may yet be a few copies of It’s A LondOntLife #1 at Brown & Dickson. We are really negligent. We’ll have to check. But the last one we physically…
We have new books for a frightening brightening 2022
There may yet be a few copies of It’s A LondOntLife #1 at Brown & Dickson. We are really negligent. We’ll have to check. But the last one we physically…
Jobs Minister Doug Schweitzer says he won’t seek UCP leadership, and he won’t run for re-election in Calgary-Elbow
In a statement published on social media yesterday, Jobs, Economy and Innovation Minister Doug Schweitzer said he’s not going to seek the leadership of the United Conservative Party, and, what’s…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nicola Davis reports on new research showing that the effects of long COVID include sustained damage to organs including the heart, lungs…
No way out but war
“No Guts No Glory.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine illustrates, is trapped in the…