Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – William J. Barber and Tope Folarin write that the U.S.’ grim milestone of one million COVID-19 deaths already serves as a searing indictment…
2022
dog agility, worm composting, and morning tea: three things going on with me
Does it make sense to create compost when you don’t garden? I don’t know, but I’m doing it. Worms, but no garden So, I’m not gardening. The Urban Worm Bag…
Time to get rid of Victoria Day (the name, not the holiday)
Happy Victoria Day weekend, dear readers. In honour of this great public holiday, I propose that we make it the last Victoria Day ever. Now, don’t panic. I am not…
Saturday Photo: Journée des Patriotes
I’ve run this before, but it bares repeating: in Quebec this weekend is not Victoria Day but the Journée des Patriotes. It commemorates the Rebllion of 1837-38, which was that…
COVID? What’s That?
In Ontario, COVID cases are sprouting like dandelions in the spring. Two of the party leaders are self-isolating. Martin Regg Cohn writes: The Green Party’s Mike Schreiner disclosed his positive…
Housing: We Have ENOUGH SUPPLY
Everyone is talking about housing affordability in Canada and Ontario politicians are promising to plow over the best farm land in Ontario. The only ones who will benefit are developers.…
The incredible banality of political being in Ontario’s 2022 election
In social relations, it is often said that pride goeth before the fall. What prefaces the parliamentary cretinism that flows from the crowning of bourgeois governments? The 2022 election campaign…
Vote a better Ontario.
People are already voting in Ontario. And I can assure you, it is far more convenient to vote in the ten days of advance polls than to get in line…
Today’s News: Here’s some good stuff
Busy day today so its not a long post tonight. First of all, here’s a great news story: On May 18, 2022 Saskatoon Tribal Council had the pleasure of witnessing…
Three former Alberta Teachers Association presidents urge teachers to reject mediator’s recommended contract
Three former presidents of the Alberta Teachers Association have written a strongly worded open letter to Alberta public, Catholic and francophone schoolteachers throughout the province urging them to reject an…
Musical interlude
PVRIS – Old Wounds
Well, Kids, It’s Last Call.
It’s reached the point where it’s hard work to ignore our perilous reality. But our political leaders, bless their hearts, shun it as a vampire does the noonday sun. Jason…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 20, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Taliban orders all female TV presenters to cover their faces while on air #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3MA0pW5 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ed Yong discusses how we may have created a “pandemicine” era by fundamentally changing how viruses are able to mutate and spread. The…
Two Days In Alberta Politics
It’s Friday – end of the week, and the last 2 days of politics in Alberta have been a whirlwind … on Wednesday, Kenney said he would step down after…
The Book of Knowledge: 2
Last post I mentioned I had rescued a set of encyclopedias from the dumpster at the end of this year’s Mother Of All Yard Sales (MOAYS; an Optimist Club event).…
The Spectacular Collapse of the Con Monster Jason Kenney
I still remember how disappointed I was when Jason Kenney resigned his seat in the House of Commons, after stinking out the joint for years. Only to be greeted like…
Conservative Rage
The fall of Jason Kenney has brought forth nary a word from any of the contenders for the leadership of the federal Conservative Party. Susan Delacourt writes: No thanks or…
Jason Kenney, through a glass darkly
Jason Kenney has long maintained an address in fantasyland. Back in 2016 he somehow came to the now clearly erroneous conclusion that only he could fashion a robust and longstanding…
Brits Begone.
Charles and his lovely wife Camilla are in Canada and the news media are dishing out their usual orgy of coverage. Not that the coverage will be anything like the…