Kinsellacast Music Volume 8!
Made y'all a playlist. You're welcome. https://t.co/fyjTd3SHWO — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 22, 2023
2023
Today’s News: "Home On Native Land"
Yes, “home on Native land” is exactly right. Some Canadians may be freaking out about this national anthem version at the NBA All-Star game, but I think it’s perfectly justified:…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Liam Mannix examines how the scientists with the deepest knowledge of the risks of COVID-19 are protecting themselves from the ongoing pandemic. And…
Musings on Haiku
I can’t recall just when I first encountered haiku, that subtle, concise and often baffling Japanese poetry, but I suspect it was sometime in the late 1960s, not long after…
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 22, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Osgoode Hall trees can come down; Court refuses to hear Indigenous group’s appeal #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3IMufXS – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Episode 85: Naheed Nenshi on Calgary in Alberta’s 2023 election
Former Calgary mayor shares his thoughts on Danielle Smith, Rachel Notley and the city he calls home ahead of Alberta’s provincial election. Former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi joins the Daveberta…
The Biggest Problem With The Occupation
The were lots of problems behind the occupation of Ottawa a year ago. But the biggest problem, Les Whittington writes, was Doug Ford: Ontario Premier Doug Ford was missing in…
Broad front or false front?
Promotional artwork for the Rage Against the War Machine rally, held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on February 19, 2022. On February 19, no fewer than 1,000 protestors…
Federalism’s Failure.
Comment #2 on the Rouleau Report: Justice Paul Rouleau understated it in his inquiry report when he labelled our policing as dysfunctional and a failure of federalism. While he showed…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Drowsy cats.
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates February 21, 2023
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
The Real Snowflakes
The extreme right seems to take pleasure in calling progressive people snowflakes, implying that they are such sensitive souls that any criticism or views that don’t accord with theirs hurt…
The boy names list, from Aabir to Zaidan
Every year around this time, the Alberta government bestows upon its winter-weary residents a gift: every baby name in Alberta in the past year. I say it’s a gift because…
Jimmy Carter—a noble life
I was saddened to hear that former U.S. president Jimmy Carter has gone home to die. A statement from The Carter Center read “After a series of short hospital stays,…
Official enemies and the media’s double standard on anonymous sources
The Globe and Mail Centre, Toronto. Photo by Henk Binnendijk/Flickr. In two recent articles, the Globe and Mail unwittingly exposed its double standard on the use of anonymous sources. When…
Cold War realism: Lessons for Ukraine
Photo courtesy the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Twitter The new Cold War, like its predecessor, can be traced back to the misinterpretation of Russian intentions. In case of…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David Moscrop discusses how the Trudeau Libs have chosen to funnel money to cutthroat corporate consultants rather than building a functional public…
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 21, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Milton, Ontario man, 22, charged with murder after fatally shooting suspect who tried to rob his house, lawyer says #law #legal #lawtwitter @CTVNews https://bit.ly/3IhDnCt – Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
Protests in Cuba vs. Peru: a case study in Canadian hypocrisy
Cuban Americans hold a rally in Miami to support dissidents on the island, July 2021. Photo from Flickr. Canada’s foreign policy record is stained with countless examples of hypocrisy, opportunism,…
He’s Living In The Past
For quite some time, I have suspected that Putin was living in the past – quite specifically, the Cold War. His "State of the Nation" speech today confirmed that. Most…