Lest We Forget
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz reminds us of some unpleasant truths: San Juan mayor responds to Trump's Puerto Rico tweets: "This isn't politics. This is about saving lives." https://t.co/9CA3Ips4Aq…
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Responding To "Suppressing Dissent" – A Guest Post
This morning I received a comprehensive commentary from BM, who was responding to my post Suppressing Dissent, which expressed criticism of the visit by Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins’…
Too High A Price To Pay
This year, The Star has been running an Atkinson Series entitled The New Newsroom, which looks at both the challenges and the possibilities facing journalism in this age of Internet…
Suppressing Dissent
Like countless others, I support those protesting both the wicked legacy and current practice of North American racism. While more egregious perhaps in the United States, Canada’s own shameful racist…
This Is What A Complete Absence Of Integrity Looks Like
You can read more about this pathetic example of humanity and avid courter of political favour, William Wehrum, here. Recommend this Post
On The Petering Out Of Pipelines
While Andrew Sheer’s Conservatives will undoubtedly wring as much political capital as they can out of the cancellation of the Energy East pipeline, less partisan people will see it as…
On This Thanksgiving Day
Clearly, we have much to be grateful for. H/t Greg Perry Recommend this Post
A Truly Alien Nation
This weekend we celebrate with family and friends our Canadian Thanksgiving. As is the custom, we reflect upon the things for which we are grateful, and duly give thanks for…
His Name Was Patrick Harmon
Only a failed nation perpetrates the kind of atrocity depicted in the following video. While difficult to watch, what other choice do we have but to bear witness? Recommend this…
Reaching Across The Divide
In an effort at ecumenical outreach, Mrs. Betty Bowers reaches out to the Real Housewives of ISIS to show that their religious sensibilities have much in common with those of…
In The Eye Of The Beholder
It is my practice each evening at 6:30 to switch back and forth between NBC Nightly News and Global National, in part because I like to see the differing emphases…
Rosy Rhetoric Won’t Get The Job Done
Those of us who pay even a modest amount of attention to the ever-increasing toll that climate change is exacting on the world know or sense that we have reached…
Can You Imagine?
I have always believed, and still do, that one of the essentials for bringing about real political change is knowledge. To be aware of and informed about the key issues…
The Art Of Misdirection
While it is difficult in some ways to attribute anything resembling a method to the madness of the American Moron-in-Chief, it would be wrong to think he is totally unmoored…
Finally, A Politician Speaking For Her People
You have had, I am sure, many experiences throughout your lives when you have met people and, based only on very limited contact, have concluded they are people of integrity,…
The Last Refuge Of The Scoundrel.
It was Samuel Johnson who first coined the above phrase. Watch the brief video embedded below to see how germane it is today: .@POTUS on NFL owners: When it comes…
A Chill On Democracy?
I think it is indisputable that thanks to the online world of social media, civil discourse has been hobbled. If, for example, one reads comments in newspapers or in public…
American Contempt For Health-Care Protesters
Nothing says more about the American political establishment’s attitude on health care than this video of the handicapped being manhandled and ejected during a protest at a Senate committee hearing…
Amen
H/t Theo Moudakis Recommend this Post
Scenes From The Resistance: A Spreading Solidarity
Continuing with yesterday’s theme, here are some scenes from Sunday’s sports contests that show increasing numbers of players refusing to stand for Donald Trump and America’s racism by either taking…