On Binary Thinking And The Gaza Genocide
I read an interesting column the other day. In it, Janice Kennedy reflects on our tribal natures, natures that promote binary thinking. ... one side or the other, black or…
August 2025
Today’s News: Mboko wins, South Park wins, Carney carries on, Conservatives panic, and Trump trashes Washington
Congrats to Victoria Mboko, winning the National Bank Open in Montreal tonight - outstanding, gutsy: Enfant Mboko et une jeune Andrescu. Deux Canadiennes 🇨🇦 à avoir gagné le Tournoi 🇨🇦…
Manitoba is no friend to Palestine
Pro-Palestine activists rally at the Manitoba Legislative Building nearly one year after the attacks of October 7, 2023 attacks. Photo courtesy CTV News. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s oft-repeate...
Where’s the War Room – fearless adversary of the New York Times – now that the UCP needs it?
Where’s the Alberta Energy “War Room” now that the United Conservative Party needs it? Yesterday The New York Times published a major feature story on Alberta’s burgeoning measles epidemic –…
Please, for the love of glob, stop making re-usable bags!
You know how before the plastic bag ban came along to save us from the scourge of bags-of-bags stuffed into closets or drawers, to be maybe reused once as doggy-doo…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Sonya Angell examines the connection between extreme weather events caused by the climate breakdown and adverse health effects, while noting that there's a…
Rural mail goodbye?
For decades, residents living in rural areas around eastern Ontario could tell they had mail delivered if the flag on their mailbox was up. Now, they’re being told Canada Post…
Rural mail goodbye?
For decades, residents living in rural areas around eastern Ontario could tell they had mail delivered if the flag on their mailbox was up. Now, they’re being told Canada Post…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates August 5, 2025
NOTE: If you regularly send packets to Ronald Reed, his mail now gets routed through a third party, for-profit, vendor:Ronald Reed #219531MCF-Lino Lakes, MinnesotaPost Office Box 247Phoenix, Maryland 21131 Click…
Not The Beaverton? Not the Onion? Sure sounds like the August crazies are here!
I can't remember whether August has always been so bizarre -- maybe this craziness happens every year and we just forget all about it after school starts again. Maybe its…
Government lawyer will be in court today to intervene on the side of Alberta separatists
A government lawyer will be in court today in Edmonton to intervene on behalf of a group that wants Alberta to separate from Canada. A letter yesterday from a Justice…
Carney is pushing Canadian liberalism to its breaking point
The real battle over the Carney government’s Bill C-5 will unfold not in courtrooms but on railroad tracks, forestry roads, at ports, and in cities across the country. Photo by…
The ICC: the law embraces environmental science
We are, of course, doing it to ourselves. Warming up the planer that is. To... The post The ICC: the law embraces environmental science first appeared on Views from the…
Godzilla Minus One: Some Thoughts
I have been watching Godzilla films since the late 1950s or early ’60s, when the edited American version (1956) of the 1954 Japanese original was released and was finally shown…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The University of Oxford has released new research showing that politicians underestimate the public's demand for climate action. Adam Morton discusses how Australia's Labor…
Unbridled Corruption In A Fascist America
The state legislature in Texas tried to pass a bill to redistrict the state to gerrymander five more Republican congressmen for next year’s mid-term elections.
Random Roundup: that canny Carney; the diddler on the roof; no-seat Poilievre
Just a few commentaries tonight, mainly about how well Carney is dealing with Trump and the tariffs, as the American economy begins to collapse. Guy Lawson / Rolling Stone Why…
Canada dismissed Kyrgyzstan’s environmental concerns as ‘pretext’ in mine dispute, documents reveal
The Kumtor mine is one of the largest gold mines in Central Asia. Photo courtesy the Kumtor Gold Company. When Kyrgyzstan nationalized the Kumtor gold mine in 2021, citing environmental…