Here We Go Again: Restructuring AHS
According to Danielle Smith, AHS isn’t “truly accountable” and it’s been a “management problem” for quite some time. So she’s going to blow it up. This week some brave soul…
2023
How It Began
When it all started, I immediately started reading news from China and Italy, figuring that what was happening there could easily happen here, and we should be prepared. Esther Hopkins…
Communications Constricted.
Ontario premier Doug Ford tends to bluster. Take the recent meeting of the premiers in Nova Scotia, where he claimed that the federal carbon levy was “the worst tax ever.”…
Chris Hedges: Letter to the children of Gaza
“Children of Gaza.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Dear child. It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the…
Saturday Photo: Early Snow…
Snow this week, the second flurry of the year. My birthday is November 8, and last year was the first year since I arrived in Montreal decades ago that it…
My latest: charge them, prosecute them, convict them – then jail them
What is hate, and what isn’t? What words are against the law, and what words are allowed? Actions are easier to judge. When a six-year-old boy is stabbed to death…
as genocide continues in gaza: 11.11
The Palestine Project I almost missed my annual Remembrance Day post. While a handful of countries commemorate the most pointless and horrific of wars to end all wars, a genocide…
Council’s First Year Considered
I did a few facepalms while reading CollingwoodToday’s four-part piece on Collingwood Council’s first year in office. CwoodToday approached each of them with questions “about their accomplishments so far, to…
Remebrance Day 2023
In a world increasingly obsessed with Imperial Dreams, we must remember the cost of those dreams. Image: Saugeen Times
Caring, Grieving and Remembering When the World’s On Fire
Last week I had the privilege of attending the Canadian Centre of Excellence (CCCE) Summit. It was three days of continuously invigorating, challenging and hopeful discussions. I will write more…
Caring, Grieving and Remembering When the World’s On Fire
Last week I had the privilege of attending the Canadian Centre of Excellence (CCCE) Summit. It was three days of continuously invigorating, challenging and hopeful discussions. I will write more…
Culture of Uncare or Pandemic of Inhumanity
Psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe coined the term “culture of uncare” to explain intentional efforts to sever links from one another and from the environment. She calls it “severing links,” but the…
Caring, Grieving and Remembering When the World’s On Fire
Last week I had the privilege of attending the Canadian Centre of Excellence (CCCE) Summit. It was three days of continuously invigorating, challenging and hopeful discussions. I will write more…
Boys Will Be Boys.
They are trying to turn the Ontario liberal leadership into a boys-only club. Maybe I was a bit of a wus as a youngster but I always let the girls…
Danielle Smith and Tucker Carlson: Four reasons the Alberta premier will join the far-right American bloviator on stage
Danielle Smith’s plan to meet on a Calgary stage with far-right American bloviator Tucker Carlson on Jan. 24 has generated a surprising amount of what passes for serious commentary in…
Remembrance Day and Righteous Wars
When I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s Remembrance Day was a very solemn occasion. There were still a lot of World War II veterans participating and even…
Remembrance Day and Righteous Wars
When I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s Remembrance Day was a very solemn occasion. There were still a lot of World War II veterans participating and even…
Musical interlude
Lisa Miskovsky – Still Alive
Hamas — a genocidal death cult openly committed to exterminating the Jews in Israel
In this week’s The Line Podcast, Matt Gurney and Jen Gerson describe Canadian foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s baffling and bizarre statement about getting Hamas — a genocidal death cult…