Today's tonic (and similar posts, where I highlight important articles published elsewhere) is back. "Mark Carney is already staring down a history-making decision," by Irwin Cotler and Sir Bill Browder.…
Today's tonic (and similar posts, where I highlight important articles published elsewhere) is back. "Mark Carney is already staring down a history-making decision," by Irwin Cotler and Sir Bill Browder.…
OK, I think I can safely say now that we are finished with winter -- it's planting season for the flower pots, too. So for now, here's just a random…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith sounded as if she were almost cackling with glee at a news conference Friday morning where she announced the creation of a “New North American Initiative”…
The NDP—and the Canadian left more generally—seems to be at a loss for purpose in a political landscape that is suddenly oriented around threats from our southern neighbour. Photo courtesy…
Former NDP leader Jagmeet Singh on the campaign trail in Victoria. Photo courtesy Jagmeet Singh/X. Another election has come and gone, and Canadians have ended up with more or less…
Forty-five years ago today, Ian Curtis took his life. I was in Calgary, and getting ready to start at Carleton and later – I figured – a journalism degree. In…
I sometimes wonder, had social media existed in its present form when I was teaching, would I have posted as I do today? Would I have been willing to risk…
Mark Carney doesn’t feel threatened by competence and he isn’t governed by favours.
Just some funny stuff to enjoy this weekend, starting with some good cartoons:Next, I do love the insult comics of the internet: JoJoFromJerz / Are you f'ng kidding me? It…
Toronto’s disappearing mid-century architecture is increasingly dwarfed by glass-and-steel condos built for investors, not occupants. Photo by Can Pac Swire/Flickr. I’ve previously written...
Thanks to Friday’s cabinet reshuffle, more than half of the entire United Conservative Party caucus in the Alberta Legislature is now a member of Premier Danielle Smith’s cabinet! To be…
New one. This is in Israel, directly across the road from kibbutz Be’eri and just up from the Nova site. This is where I was with Amit, a young man…
Fortis BC has been advertising an interesting programme. The programme is a rebate that assists their customers in transitioning to a new “dual fuel” heat pump system. The idea is…
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Bill McKibben rightly describes the Trump regime's attacks on the entire federal regulatory apparatus as vandalism with a plan (which includes making things more…
Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss. Apologies to The Who, but the misapplication of their song lyric is apt: on all matters related to the Jewish state,…
I'll quote Alan Levine in full:For a refreshing break from the sameness of GenAI imagery, immerse yourself into the still vital act of photography in 50 winning images from All…
I'll quote Alan Levine in full:For a refreshing break from the sameness of GenAI imagery, immerse yourself into the still vital act of photography in 50 winning images from All…
*illustration from Wayne Horton's substack View on Threads It is not just Canadians and other foreign visitors who are running afoul of America's border police. It's now happening to Americans…
