Latest: free Ukraine!
New one. FREE UKRAINE pic.twitter.com/TSvl0sNdcx — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 20, 2022
2022
My latest: thunderbolts and lighting, very very irritating
The biggest televised event in human history, it is suggested, was Monday’s funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. The biggest social media event in the past week, it is speculated, was…
Therapy + Cash = Lower Crime
It’s a simple equation which may sound obvious to some and bizarre to others. Our current approach to crime focusses on punishment and repression, and that clearly doesn’t work given…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emily Alpert Reyes and Aida Ylanan discuss COVID’s continued toll in lives and health even as the people in power seek to…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 20, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Canada Revenue Agency sending flood of letters asking people who received both EI and CERB to pay the extra back #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3SmfaOv – Garry J.…
New documents reveal callousness of fossil fuel execs—and Canada’s complicity
“The Shell Skull” by Andreas Metz. Photo by Andreas Metz/Flickr. The United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform just held the third hearing of its investigation into the fossil…
The Gun We Point at Our Own Heads
If you're sitting at a table and there's a loaded pistol in front of you, do you pick it up and point it at your own head? Probably not, unless…
The Gun We Point at Our Own Heads
If you're sitting at a table and there's a loaded pistol in front of you, do you pick it up and point it at your own head? Probably not, unless…
The Gun We Point at Our Own Heads
If you’re sitting at a table and there’s a loaded pistol in front of you, do you pick it up and point it at your own head? Probably not, unless…
Troll Busted
So I’m hearing tonight that the hateful and cowardly reign of terror of one of Saskatchewan’s most vile troll accounts is finally over. And if it’s true that the person…
Ends And Means
If you’ve been following the comments at this site, you will notice that I have received a lot of blowback on my post about migrants being trafficked to Martha’s Vineyard.…
Hospital, long-term care funding cut by the Ford Conservative government
The Financial Accountability Office has released the Ford PC government’s funding plans for the various health care sub-sectors. The news is not good. The funding plans for 2022/3 in several…
Mere Piffle
I doubt that I have ever used the word piffle before in writing. Yet it seems the appropriate choice in this instance. I am extraordinarily embarrassed for those in the…
Doug Ford ploughs ahead with attacks on education
Thousands of demonstrators gather to protest against Doug Ford and the Ontario provincial Conservatives’ planned cuts to education in front of Queen’s Park, Toronto. Photo by Mary Crandall/Flickr. For months,…
Lessons in Economics.
It was regrettable that Justin Trudeau did not have room on his plane to take the new conservative leader to London. I was thinking that Justin could take in the…
Today’s News: #ISingWithTrudeau
So today the Queen was laid to rest in a beautiful ceremony — here are a few of the tweets I flagged about the most-watched funeral in world history: The…
Small Edmonton crowd says farewell to Queen Elizabeth as tired premier manages a reasonably dignified speech
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney trowelled it on a bit, perhaps as befits expectations in a provincial capital, but he generally managed a reasonably dignified performance as he said farewell to…
The Ghosts of Election Past cartoon page
Check out Ghosts of Election Past where we gathered a few highlights from 2018. Not that we intended it at all, and it seems a bit of a promotion for…
Another Abuse of Power and Position
As this term of council winds down, with only a few weeks before the election, it seems some members at the table can’t help themselves abusing their position and their…
Campaign Video
I was asked for an “at the door” video of myself. Here it is! (Read more…)My son laughed at my earnestness! I’m being totally authentic, but I may appear a…