Back to Horace No. 2
I was browsing online recently because I wanted to order another book of Horace’s Odes or maybe his Epistles in my efforts to understand and appreciate the poet more fully.…
2022
Is Danielle Smith too much, even for Alberta?
She’s ba-a-a-a-ck! When Danielle Smith accepted the leadership of the “United” Conservative Party last week, with an underwhelming 54 percent of the vote after six ballots, she took to the…
Enough is enough
“Pollsters typically operate behind the election scenes. This is not the case for Nick Kouvalis, who often is exposed to the media due to his erratic behaviour and tweets.”
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Axe reports on the spread of a new COVID-19 subvariant which pairs increased transmissibility with resistance to antibody therapies. And Andrew Gregory…
A Tough Time
Canada is a big country, and it’s always been difficult to govern. There has always been a tug-of-war between the federal government and the provinces. But the road ahead will…
Reprogramming the genocide deniers
A march from Queen’s Park to Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto to demand action on the 215 children found in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Residential School, June 2021.…
Saving Scholars From Scary Situations
Academics face persecution in parts of the world where authoritarian governments rule, which makes the exploration of knowledge very difficult and can even lead to safety concerns for the academics.…
Putin’s War.
Where does Putin get off here? He is losing a war that Russians do not want. He murders civilians and complains when somebody attempts to damage his bridge to the…
Christ, what an asshole!
Back in 2006, blogger Charles Lavoie did a post to assert that all New Yorker cartoons would still be just as funny with the caption “Christ, what an asshole” and…
Danielle Smith’s first news conference as premier: Sovereignty, health care changes, succour for the Great Unvaxxed!
Premier Danielle Smith was sworn in yesterday morning and in the afternoon gave her first news conference in Alberta’s top political job, offering so much news it was hard to…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats on top of the world.
Spare us the dogma, ladies
Normally, I am pleased to see women emerge as political leaders. We need more women in positions of leadership in our governance. What we do not need are more free-market…
My latest: hockey blight in Canada
Three hockey truths. One, our kids are never going to play in the NHL. Two, it’s just a game. Three, our kids are never ever going to play in…
Five questions for the Public Order Emergency Commission
Over the past several months, I have been collecting comments and tweets related to the FluTruxKlan, anticipating the upcoming Emergencies Act inquiry and the likely shit-show we will be seeing…
Central banks are applying ‘shock therapy’ to quell rising global inflation
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Photo by Sharon Farmer/Flickr. Shock therapy was the term used to describe the drastic switch from a planned publicly owned economy in the Soviet Union…
It Ain’t Over
Joe Biden says the pandemic is over. Millions of people agree with him. But COVID hasn’t receded into the history books. Glen Pearson writes: Covid-19 hasn’t receded into the past,…
600 million metric tons of plastic may fill oceans by 2036 if we don’t act now
The OECD estimates that plastic waste will triple globally by 2060. Photo by Bo Eide/Flickr. As the private transportation sector shifts focus to batteries, biofuels, and green hydrogen, fossil fuel…
Farm Fields of Solar Produce Bonuses
In the UK the average person wants to get off fossil fuels, but the Conservatives in power want the opposite. Obviously this is not good, and it gets worse: the…
The Next Can of Worms.
Just when you think things are going to quiet down a bit, we have another Ottawa can of worms being opened. Susan Delacourt of the Toronto Star tells us that…
Today’s News: Congratulations to Brandi Morin!
Congratulations to Brandi Morin, in New York City tonight to receive her Edward R. Murrow Award for her article: A “lingering evil”: From residential schools to murdered women. Edward R.…