Let Me Entertain You.
Listening to Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie the other day was a surprise political event. It was the first time I had seen her give a speech to an audience. She…
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Manufacturing Consent for War in Canada and the United States
In this webinar, organized by Peace Alliance Winnipeg, Colleen Bell and Yves Engler explain how governments in Canada and the United States shape public opinion to support their wars. The…
Saturday Photo: The Battle of the Invasives
Here are three invasive plants duking it out at Montreal’s Technoparc. The tall grass is Phragmites australis, which sets up shop at the edge of waterways as does the purple…
Alright – One More Post About Jordan Peterson
Okay – all the wagging mouths are going off about the latest ruling in the ongoing Jordan Peterson court drama. Over at Runkle of the Bailey on YouTube, Ian Runkle…
A World Built On Sand: It’s Time For A War Against Insecurity
In these times of political polarization and social fragmentation, there is something that unites us, that almost all of us experience in common – insecurity, insecurity in the face of…
Naval deployment
As a change from the usual subjects at In-Sights, here are photographs taken by Lorne Simpson of Victoria, a friend of 50 years or so. Lorne is a keen observer…
A city guy goes to the farm
As a child in the city, my knowledge of farm life was limited to what I saw on Green Acres (which was, for younger readers, a TV show about a…
A Crime Against Everyone
The Enclosure Movement was a push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at…
Take a Mask, Leave a Mask
Donate a Mask is an amazing group that helps get masks in people’s hands who couldn’t otherwise afford them. They’re helped immensely when others buy from them to offset the…
No Rest for the Wicked.
No, premier Ford, the Greenbelt fiasco is not going away. Firing Ryan Damato was just the first of many steps back you need to take. Not that you hurt his…
This week in stupid: from Sask Ed policies, to Trump-fatigue, to Trudeau polls
Like Arthur Clark said way back when on possibility of extraterrestrial life in the universe: “We’re either alone, or we’re not. And either way you look at it, it’s staggering.”…
2,500-word Alberta ‘fact sheet’ tries to counter critics of freeze on new renewable electricity project approvals
Obviously feeling enough heat to overlook the political folk wisdom that if you’re explaining you’re losing, the Alberta government released a wordy “fact sheet” yesterday attempting to explain why no…
Musical interlude
Kx5 feat. Hayla – Escape
pacific northwest labor history association conference: the keynote address
It has been on my mind, and on my to-do list, to write more about the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association Conference*, which I was fortunate to attend in May…
Conservatives circle their hateful wagons around trans people; Have any of you ever actually met and spoken with a trans person?
My dear late friend Kyle ScanlonI've been heartbroken watching the repeated, nasty attempts south of the border and now in Canada to demonize transgendered people, all for political gain. Trans…
Conservatives circle their hateful wagons around trans people; Have any of you ever actually met and spoken with a trans person?
My dear late friend Kyle Scanlon I’ve been heartbroken watching the repeated, nasty attempts south of the border and now in Canada to demonize transgendered people, all for political gain.…
Sleeker and Even Quieter: PC Case Fan Filtration Box
It’s like a Corsi-Rosenthal box, but instead of being a square with a 20″ box fan, it can be built with six PC case fans (typically used to cool a…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Honest Sorceror points out the obvious unsustainability of exponential growth in resource extraction when the mass of inanimate man-made objects already exceeds…