Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza. She spent eight years in prison before her release in 2018 following a pardon by President Paul Kagame. Photo by Shant Fabricatorian/AP. The Rwandan…
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The next election, Michael Harris writes, will be the most consequential in Canada’s history: It will be a choice between today, and all the tomorrows the planet may or may…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of December 18, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: India’s Supreme Court upholds decision to end Kashmir’s special status Special Counsel…
An excellent, important video was the inspiration for this short post (linked here, below) from a generally lackluster podcast. The musings arising after watching the video, however, I would say…
Can we teach how to think and problem solve our way out of a total collapse? I’m curious why some people are facing it all head on, reading the news…
They are certainly not comrades at arms. Recently Toronto Star writer Martin Reg Cohn wrote that the cancellation of the splitting up Peel region into the stand-alone municipalities of Mississauga,…
Rudolph Giuliani was once a man of substance. A man of integrity. He served as the U.S. Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and as the U.S. Attorney for…
Maybe you knew this, but I didn't. Ice doesn't reflect the same way that waer does. This morning at the Lachine Rapids, it was chilly and windy, but the terempuerature…
Maybe you knew this, but I didn’t. Ice doesn’t reflect the same way that waer does. This morning at the Lachine Rapids, it was chilly and windy, but the terempuerature…
Detail of “Man at the Crossroads” (1933), a fresco by Mexican painter Diego Rivera, showing Leon Trotsky, Friedrich Engels, and Karl Marx. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Socialism: A Very Short…
I wrote this in November 2007 on the hope for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The solution essentially comes down to understanding the most and least that each side…
“Birth of a New Nation.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank. Backed by the United States,…
Professor Robert Reich describes meeting with students to discuss tragic events in Gaza and Israel. It was a mixed group, some Jewish, some Palestinian, and some with other backgrounds. They…
I wrote this in November 2007 on the hope for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The solution essentially comes down to understanding the most and least that each side…
Edmonton Lawyer Avnish Nanda yesterday posted on social media part of an affidavit in which Edmonton Police Service Staff Sergeant Michael Dreilich swears city representatives agreed with the police department’s…
International support is an interesting phenomenon. Generally speaking, for most of my life, Israel has had pretty much unconditional support from all the “western powers”. It hasn’t been subjected to…
Louis Cozolino’s beautifully written book on neuroscience has an explanation near the end about our necessary interconnectedness. Communication from one body part to anther happens when messages throughout our body…
Gordon Bell High School, Winnipeg. Photo by Nancy Greer/Facebook. In his 2021 memoir, Indigenous activist Clayton Thomas-Muller defines a warrior as someone who is “not defined by fighting. They are…
