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Of course dinosaurs and humans never co-existed – dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years before humans developed, and the CBC knows it, as do all paleontologists. But no scientist wants…
2022
Eating in New York: Los Tacos No. 1
In my advance research for good eats to try during my trip to New York City, I decided to favour authenticity and value over fancy and bougie. And when Los…
Farewell to a genius
Oh no. What a genius he was. RIP. "Keith Levene, founding member of the Clash, dies at 65 | Public Image Ltd | The Guardian" https://t.co/O5UIHZGNcH — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren)…
MTL: Expozine 2022, Nov 19-20
Kersplebedeb is excited to be tabling at Montreal’s Expozine again this year! Expozine 2022 Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20, 11 am – 6 pm 1025 Bélanger (Église Saint-Arsène),…
A Man Finds His Purpose in Caregiving | Ousmane | The New Yorker Screeni…
Lately I've been talking about "slivers of time" for self-care or reflection. If you can find half an hour today, watch this short film about a homesick immigrant who finds…
The Death of Local Democracy?
Thirty nine per cent. That was the risible turnout of voters for the local municipal election here in Collingwood. Significantly fewer than half of our eligible voters made the effort…
A Man Finds His Purpose in Caregiving | Ousmane | The New Yorker Screeni…
Lately I’ve been talking about “slivers of time” for self-care or reflection. If you can find half an hour today, watch this short film about a homesick immigrant who finds…
The Biggest Danger To America Today?
Single women. That’s right, single women. According to Jesse Watters, the only way to combat such an insidious threat is for those ladies to get married, where, presumably, they will…
The co-op difference: Comparing co-op and market rents in five Canadian cities
The Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada has just released a study comparing rents in co-op housing units to rents of similar private-sector market units in Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto and…
No Salvation
Republicans are lining up to blame Donald Trump for their poor showing in the mid-term election. But, Greg Sargent writes, Trump won’t take the blame: Trump will never admit that…
Pee-Pee is Patient.
That champion of Bitcoin, conservative leader Pierre Poilievre (Pee-Pee) tells us that he supports the peaceful elements in last winter’s “freedom convoy.” He seems to be waiting for Justice Paul…
Tonight’s tonic: Tina Kotek becomes the 2nd ever out lesbian elected as a U.S. governor, after Maura Healey won in Massachusetts earlier this week…
Tonight’s tonic: @TinaKotek becomes the 2nd ever out lesbian elected as a U.S. governor. The 1st @Maura_Healey was declared the winner in Massachusetts on Tuesday night. Both strong awesome women.…
11.11
Revolutionary thought of the day: I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your long weekend reading. – Umair Haque theorizes that the relatively benign outcome of the U.S.’ recent election reflects a public that’s finally rejecting Trumpism. But Krystal…
What we forget when we remember
Thousands of Canadian flags honouring fallen soldiers are planted on the front lawn of the Manulife head office in downtown Toronto. Photo from Flickr. Today across the nation Canadians of…
Books for the Kaiju Aficionado
With possibly two new Godzilla films coming to theatres in 2023*, it may be time to refresh your memory and appreciation of the previous films in the franchise. And what…
The world faces some grave threats today from fascists and fascist wannabes who are constantly attacking democracy and progressive freedom.
On this day of remembrance, I do feel it’s important to reflect not only on the battles of the past, but also the battles of the present. The world faces…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 11, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Brittney Griner has been sent to a Russian penal colony to serve her sentence, lawyers say #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3A99nW6 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…
Our Duty to Others IS Love
In my class recently, we were asked to get into groups to get a reading down to one key word. The passage was on Confucius, and it was about human-heartedness,…
A first post-pandemic political victory—hardly a ‘general strike that could have been’
Education workers and other 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. The…