Accepting the Things We Cannot Change – Yet
We’re really struggling to let go of our old familiar lives and realize we have to life differently from now on in order to keep going. It’s a bit like…
October 2023
Liberating Liberalism.
Listening to the candidates for the leadership of the liberal party is not doing much to promote liberalism. You get the impression that Ted Hsu MPP is the only one…
Speaker Now And Forever Hold Your Pee
OK, the blog title doesn’t exactly work. You come up with a pun for both Speakers of Canada and the US Congress quitting/being tossed in one week. Both the Canadian,…
Manitobans elect an NDP government; the province’s Conservatives richly deserve their defeat
At the risk of being negative about a positive story, I cannot recall a Canadian election in which the governing party more richly deserved to lose than did the Manitoba…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Splayed cats.
Cultivating Quantum Consciousness in the Climate Emergency
How would embracing quantum thinking change the way we think about ourselves, the way we think about others, what we put out into the world? And what would that mean…
Don Hamerquist’s A Brilliant Red Thread: A Discussion (Chicago/Online, Oct. 11, 2023)
Register here for zoom: https://rb.gy/ihqfn Pilsen Community Books 1102 W 18th St Chicago, IL Wed. October 11 @ 8pm EST, 7pm CST Don Hamerquist’s A Brilliant Red Thread (Kersplebedeb 2023)…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates October 3, 2023
NOTE: If you regularly send the updates packet to Marius Mason, he has been transferred: Marius Mason #04672-061 FMC Fort Worth Post Office Box 15330 Fort Worth, Texas 76119 Click…
Legal Tweet of the Day: October 3, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Trump could be on the hook for up to $250M as business fraud trial begins #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/yxcyfz9s – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
My latest: the revenge of angry little men
The Trudeau government wants to regulate the big players on the Internet. Lots of people are concerned about that. Here’s why, in the form of a cautionary tale. This writer…
Be My Eyes, Be My AI
The visual impaired population is getting more support from AI to help them ‘see’ the world around them. The already very successful human-powered app Be My Eyes (we’ve covered it…
Goal Setting Feels Very Different Now!
I’ve been thinking about that goal-setting exercise they had us do in school: Divide a piece of paper in three and write 20, 5, and Bang at the top of…
A Cutting Contest.
The other day, we addressed the severity of the military budget cuts. The bad news is that there are more cuts to come in other departments of the federal government.…
Big Time Conflict At "Save the Children East Meets West" Campsite
So you thought yesterday's story was unhinged? You ain't seen noth'n!Ron Clark, a conspiratorial streamer who was active in the Ottawa Occupation as well as subsequent anti-government and anti-LGBTQ+ events…
Big Time Conflict At "Save the Children East Meets West" Campsite
So you thought yesterday's story was unhinged? You ain't seen noth'n!Ron Clark, a conspiratorial streamer who was active in the Ottawa Occupation as well as subsequent anti-government and anti-LGBTQ+ events…
Big Time Conflict At "Save the Children East Meets West" Campsite
So you thought yesterday’s story was unhinged? You ain’t seen noth’n! Ron Clark, a conspiratorial streamer who was active in the Ottawa Occupation as well as subsequent anti-government and anti-LGBTQ+…
Precariat jobs could be good jobs
What is a good job? In most people’s minds I assume that would be something that pays well and provides good benefits, steady employment and satisfying work. In the post-war…
Conservative Danielle Smith vows to dismantle Alberta Health Services, Conservative Ed Stelmach’s greatest achievement
Today’s political weather forecast: Ill winds that blow no good will begin throughout Alberta on Wednesday. Mr. Stelmach’s health minister, Ron Liepert, in 2012 (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). After that,…
Deregulation dangers
For years, BC Opposition Leader Kevin Falcon demanded “red tape” reductions. Under Premier Gordon Campbell, Falcon spent more than two and one-half years as Minister of State for Deregulation. His…