Lambda Posters Year Four 1972-1973
This is part of a series of blog posts featuring posters published in the Laurentian University (Sudbury, Ontario) student newspaper, Lambda during the years I worked there while studying Political…
April 2025
A Good Friday Bonus
Theo Moudakis never disappoints.Recommend this Post
This week
Is it finally Spring yet?
Irony post
I only post this because I received it at the precise moment yesterday that someone was telling me my writing isn’t any good.
Today’s News: "Mark Carney made his case"
Tonight was the last of the federal election debates. The overall media conclusion was that nobody "lost". While the CBC At Issue panel discussion above was interesting, I found the…
Spare me another national leaders’ debate! Please!
Spare me another national leaders’ debate! Please! Leadership debates are mostly a waste of time. Excruciating. Surely only masochists enjoy them. There are few surprises. If you’re a partisan praying…
Party leader’s domestic violence policy will fail survivors and communities
Illustration by Ann Kiernan My ears perked up when Pierre Poilievre announced his plan to address the epidemic of intimate partner violence (IPV). According to the statement he made in…
Campaign notebook latest: how to win without losing
Mark Carney gave an uneasy smile. Fifteen minutes in, it was a pile-on, and Carney was at the bottom of it. The Liberal Prime Minister looked a bit tired, and…
How To Respond To the UKSC Ruling On Trans People
This week, the United Kingdom Supreme Court (UKSC) issued a ruling that on the face of it invalidates transgender women’s rights under the law. I haven’t finished reading through the…
How To Respond To the UKSC Ruling On Trans People
This week, the United Kingdom Supreme Court (UKSC) issued a ruling that on the face of it invalidates transgender women’s rights under the law. I haven’t finished reading through the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Matthew Yglesias implores the business sector which is increasingly recognizing the danger of Donald Trump's trade policy to notice that the balance of…
Legal News Post of the Day: April 17, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: CRA accounts hacked after 28,000 social insurance numbers stolen in data breach #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/vath8LDUMn - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Peter Guthrie, former Alberta infrastructure minister booted from UCP Caucus, says health minister ‘deliberately misled’ cabinet
On Monday, Alberta’s former infrastructure minister complained that his 30-day suspension from the United Conservative Party Caucus in the Legislature with its accompanying gag order had lasted 48 days. Yesterday,…
Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: What is a Power of Attorney for Personal Care?
You may complete a Power of Attorney for Personal Care to appoint one or more trusted persons to make medical decisions on your behalf in critical circumstances where you are…
Today’s News: Media declare the French leaders debate a draw; Carney leaps tall buildings with a single bound; Poilievre has figured out how he can undercut the Charter; and what is Carney’s cat called?
Media declares the French leaders debate was a draw:Wednesday was the first of the two leaders debates. View on Threads View on Threads View on Threads Poilievre and his short…
AI roasts Norm
With three school teachers in the immediate family, I usually stay away from artificial intelligence platforms. However, I learned that Chat GPT can use AI to describe individuals who have…
Wednesday Night Cat Blogging
Attentive cat.
My latest: my take on the French debate
The French-language debate: Brian Lilley and I watched so you didn’t have to. Some of my Kinsellian debate rules: people don’t watch debates to have their minds changed – they…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jared Yates Sexton writes about the unambiguous wrong embodied in the Trump regime's claim to be able to disappear anybody it chooses to. Timothy…
Leaving Las Metas
Is the act of removing myself from Meta’s walled hellscape — deleting Facebook and Instagram — a kind of digital suicide? What will happen when… The post Leaving Las Metas…