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State Of The Union

I found the following on Facebook, written by a Black man named David Gray. For those interested in going deeper into his post, I have provided links to all the…

Covidiot Roundup

I see that #COVIDIOTS is trending on Twitter. Here are a few nuggets I gleaned: H/t @alkorin H/t DaddY H/t Sass Chit Amen, brethren. Recommend this Post

Where Are you, Evangelicals?

That’s the question pundit Roland Martin asks about their uniform silence over the sordid sex scandal engulfing Republican, Matt Gaetz, who is a House Representative from Florida. Before getting to…

A Fluid Situation

In what can only be described initially as a fluid situation, assuming he wandered in from a nearby water body, a beaver, proceeded to a Toronto subway station, presumably to…

Behind Bars No More

As we have become increasingly aware these past several years, institutional investments matter. And as public awareness has grown, so has pressure for the big funds to divest from ethically…

Crisis Deferred, Not Ended

I recently wrote about a plan to bulldoze the Duffins Creek wetlands to make way for an Amazon distribution centre. Facilitated by an MZO (Ministerial Zoning Order), a heavy-handed tool…

A Novel Defence

The devil, they say, is in the details, but here in Ontario, the devil apparently is in the Ontario government. Outside of this province, I’m not certain how well known…

Piers Has A Moment

It must be hard to be Piers Morgan. The erstwhile CNN host, now a presenter on Good Morning Britain, loves to level caustic criticism at any number of targets, his…

A Humbling Realization

The older I get, the more I realize that I really don’t understand people. For someone who for a long time thought otherwise, it is a humbling realization. The story…

The Developers’ Friend

Wetlands, or marshes, fens, bogs, and swamps, are the link between land and water. Wetlands include trees, grasses, shrubs, moss, and other plants that require at least some water coverage.…

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