Eating off the Hill: New McDonalds chicken sandwich, the McCrispy
I’m always on the look-out for chicken sammy updates, and so when I heard McDonald’s had a new chicken sandwich I knew I had to try it out for lunch…
2022
Morning
Mother’s Beach morning. pic.twitter.com/Bk8a36mVJa — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 25, 2022
Dougie In Paradise
Doug Ford is in the cat bird’s seat. Linda McQuaig writes: With our health-care system reeling, Ford is charging ahead with plans for further privatization — Ontario health care is…
Ye of Little Hope.
It is being called ‘The Chill on the Hill.’ It’s the assumption that MP Pierre Poilievre is going to win the brass ring on the merry-go-round of the conservative leadership.…
Six months of war in Ukraine
Here are a few selections from the New York Times collection of Ukraine photos during 6 months of war Dusk in Kyiv Feb 24 (Brendan Hoffman) A volunteer fighter at…
Today’s tonic: “Charlie Crist Speaks After Winning Florida Democratic Primary For Governor” to take on Republican fascist Ron DeSantis this November…
Today’s tonic: “Charlie Crist Speaks After Winning Florida Democratic Primary For Governor” to take on Republican fascist Ron DeSantis in this November’s midterm elections https://youtu.be/Z12qCYpTr2g via @YouTube #uspoli #FloridaPrimary #DeSantisDestroysFlorida…
Jason Kenney’s strange obsessions: Winston Churchill, John A. Macdonald, and needlessly stirring up division
There was probably a time it made sense to erect statues of Winston Churchill in Canada. Lame duck premier Jason Kenney and Mark Milke, a former political aide who is…
Economics of delusion
Ethnographer, writer, photographer, filmmaker, and native of British Columbia, Wade Davis speaks…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates August 23, 2022
NOTE: If you currently send the updates to Eric King, he has been moved: Eric King #27090-045 USP Florence ADMAX Post Office Box 8500 Florence, Colorado 81226 Click here for…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ben Beckett interviews Max Desbris about the role a climate breakdown plays in exacerbating natural disasters, while Grace Livingstone and Ellen Tsang report…
A Window Into Their ‘Minds’
If you read this blog with any regularity, you probably know that I hold the crazed right in abject contempt. Their eagerness to embrace conspiracies, their elevation of ‘Queen’ Romana…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 24, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Temporary changes to EI made during pandemic are set to expire late next month #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3wPyYBV – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
My latest: fuck you, Putin
BOSTON – Down here, the Stars and Stripes are ubiquitous, but there’s nothing new there. It’s America, after all. But there’s another kind of flag to be seen here, now.…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is Probate?
When you name a person in your last will to be the Executor of your Estate, that person sometimes needs to also apply to the Court to be appointed formally…
He’s Heading For Lots of Pain
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Donald Trump. After the FBI retrieved government documents from his home, things got steadily worse for Trump. The New York Times reports…
Where’s Canada as Israel escalates attacks on Palestinian NGOs?
Members of the Israeli military raid the offices of Al-Haq, a human rights organization based in Ramallah, Palestine, August 18, 2022. Photo courtesy Al-Haq. In a series of alarming events…
Poilievre’s Petulance.
It’s hard to believe that a person born and educated in the Province of Alberta would not question the past three years of continuous drought conditions in that province. Pierre…