Crosswords Reduce Dementia Risk
We know that having friends can help with reducing risk of dementia in old age, but what do people with small (or nonexistent ) social circles do? They can take…
2023
Ukraine and the pitfalls of foreign aid
A residential building in the city of Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, heavily damaged during the Russian occupation. Photo by Jesco Denzel/Bundesregierung. Few people came out of America’s 20-year war…
Canada’s old media cling to power, profits like Putin
After Shaw acquired Freedom Mobile in 2016, the company targeted Rogers, Bell and Telus, including in this 2019 ad campaign depicting the big three as ‘monolithic wireless.’ Photo courtesy Freedom…
Maté: Part Depth Psychology, but Part Questionable Quick Fix
He received the Order of Canada, profoundly helped many people with addiction on the streets of Vancouver, and is much loved and admired, but some of Dr. Gabor Maté’s claims…
Poilievre Paid?
Not being on the inside with the conservatives, I do not make accusations about things that I cannot prove. Knowing Patrick Brown, as I do, and having followed Pierre Poilievre…
Some are getting rich on pensions
Times might be tough for many in British Columbia, but executives managing public pension funds are doing okay. Even better than okay. The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCi) looks…
A Microcosm of Arguments
This thread of comments of how Covid is affecting younger people encapsulates many of the attitudes affecting the people most affected – and general ableism. I used pseudonyms, and I’m…
Review 8: Ebirah, Horror of the Deep – 1966
In 1966, the original director of the Godzilla series, Ishiro Honda, left to do other projects and left the next film — Ebirah, Horror of the Deep, aka Godzilla vs…
Taylor Badass
My interest in Taylor Swift's oeuvre is less than zero. But when Canada's Prime Minister begged her to come here, and she did not even dignify it with a response,…
Anti Flag, go fuck yourselves
When Anti-Flag's lead singer was credibly accused of rape, and the rest of the band said precisely nothing, that was it for me. Burned my AF stuff. They probably don't…
Trump, would-be autocrat
There is a common assumption that Adolf Hitler was elected to the position of Chancellor of Germany. That isn’t strictly correct. In 1933, the Nazi Party held the most seats…
5,001 a Meta Oddity
What if I have 5,001 friends? pic.twitter.com/5K2qwEPMTP — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 23, 2023
Saturday Photo: Host of Hostas….
Maybe 20 years go when I began transforming out little lawn into a wild garden, I bought three hosta plants. They did extremely well, and I’ve transplanted them to several…
65: A Catalogue of Disappointments
Can a movie featuring aliens, dinosaurs, spaceships, one of the main actors from Star Wars, and a giant asteroid about to crash into the planet be bad? Sadly, yes. The…
There are very few good films about war. 20 Days in Mariupol is an exception
“Witness.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Films about war, shorn of the bone crushing fear, the putrid stench of the corpses, the deafening noise of explosions, the constant exhaustion and the…
Does Sir Douglas Do It?
It all started with the conservative Ontario attorney general. He and some of his fellow conservative lawyers in Ontario wanted to be able to use the ‘King’s Counsel’ designation. It…
Smith to Alberta: ‘Of course I’m going to take advice from CEOs; who else would I take advice from?’
Irritated by a question from an impertinent reporter about the makeup of her “expert panel” on Alberta’s energy future led by former Wildrose Party president David Yager, Premier Danielle Smith…
Covid’s Effects on Lymphocytes
A bit more on Cov-AIDS from Daniel Brittain Dugger because people need to be aware of the similarities between these diseases to, just maybe, provoke them to do everything they…
Who Needs Reparations?
According to the ‘new’ history to be taught in Florida, it may be African Americans who owe white America reparations, given the ‘benefits’ that slavery conferred upon them. Sound ludicrous?…