This seems like a good time to re-post this three-part series. It remains one of the best pieces I’ve written. Part one, my Jewish identity: my journey to palestinian solidarity…
It is becoming clear after all these years of studying our politics, that Canadians are dealing with far more political factions and causes than are needed to govern this country.…
Seattle based writer David Roberts reports on energy matters. Recently Roberts explored the variability of renewable energy. Opponents of wind and solar power rely on this subject to raise objections.…
The way Michael Kalmanovitch sees it, he had no choice but to raise a ruckus inside the Chamber of the Alberta Legislature moments after Monday’s Throne Speech. The moment on…
A stable US is important to all of us. A very imperfect democracy but nonetheless by far the most important, it is the central pillar of global liberty. Recently that…
Studies coming out now keep repeating what we already know. Covid was at first thought to be a respiratory illness, but we know it makes its home in the bloodstream…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jingwei Li et al. offer an update on the current state of knowledge surrounding long COVID, including the need for far more…
Spectacularly creative and emotionally gripping. The Lost Souls of Guayaquil is an original and thought-provoking novel about life, death, and what defines us in between.This masterful piece of magic realism…
Spectacularly creative and emotionally gripping, The Lost Souls of Guayaquil is an original and thought-provoking novel about life, death, and what defines us in between. In a clash of beliefs,…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: No charges for alleged threats toward Jewish community at Queen’s University house party #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/yye6cvm9 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
“I never really knew much about Jews until this year.” That’s what Dana Remillard Kreil wrote in one of her essays, which ended up in court. She went on: “In…
The proposed Alberta Pension Plan is nothing but a scheme to finance Alberta’s separation from Canada. The post APP: Funding Alberta’s Separatists first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Smoke billows and debris flies in the air as Gaza City is targeted during Israeli airstrikes, October 9, 2023. Photo by Mahmud Hams/AFP. In a Global News segment this past…
The cost of living is on everyone’s mind these days. In an effort to make things a little easier, the Trudeau government decided to remove the tax on home heating…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What are the legal rights of adopted children when a parent – biological or adoptive – passes away? If the Will makes a gift…
In March 2016, Kevin Davediuk’s new job as chief government advisor on negotiations with Alberta’s public sector unions was described by media and Conservative politicians as a grave blunder by…
Watchful cats.
In this engrossing historical account, Quinn Slobodian lays out how a few very rich men—yes pretty much men—and the neoliberal intellectuals upon whose ideas they fed, imagined and sometimes built…
Ontario premier Ford’s trials are about to be taken over by the Mounties. We have been racking our brains trying to think of a Canadian senior politician who has gone…
By J. Todd Ring Preface: I wrote this essay in January of 2020, then the covid crisis hit, and it was shelved for over a year. The macro-scale patterns have…
