Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rachel DuRose writes about the rise of the Eris COVID-19 variant, while Esther Choo notes that health care workers are bracing for another…
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Of Sovereign Citizens and Their Ilk
They operate under a number of different names – Sovereign Citizens, Freemen on the Land, Auditors, and so on. Largely, it’s all built on a series of conspiracy theories and…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jennifer La Grassa reports on the impending wave of the EG.5 COVID-19 variant, even as Phil Hahn warns that what little and belated…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Floored cats.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Hanwen Zhang highlights yet another rise in COVID cases – albeit paired with obviously-unwarranted minimizing of the risks involved. – Jessica Wildfire…
Eating off the Hill: Is VIA finally upping its catering game?
As I’ve mentioned I am a frequent train traveler, usually between Ottawa and Toronto. With them extending the eligibility during COVID I was able to achieve the highest tier of…
Eating up the Hill: The very Canadian catch of the day
I don’t find myself in the Parliamentary Dining Room very often — I’m more of a cafeteria guy — but back in May the boss and I were entertaining a…
On The Fetishization of Fertility
From the comments in an earlier post: Honestly, how does a child who has never experienced orgasm give informed consent to the risk of never having one, let alone the…
A Little Note On Evidence
This is particularly for the Gender Critical types that have been appearing in the comments a fair bit lately. You all seem to be a little confused about the concept…
Not A Trans Person … Again
Last week, it came out that The Calgary Stampede _KNEW_ about, and did nothing to stop a child molester working in their midst. This isn’t a couple of middle managers…
Gender Affirmation Is Care – Not Ideology
Over at “GenderReport.ca”, we find this steaming pile of verbal dung: “How Gender Ideology Imposes A Dangerous Political Agenda In Our Schools”. As is common with such articles, it is…
Anti-Trans Protests, Gender Criticals, and Groomers
It’s a little difficult to miss the torrent of anti-transgender hatred spreading about these days. Whether it is street preachers organizing “protests” over transgender people existing, or failed political candidates…
Musical interlude
Kungs, The Knocks – People
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Cory Doctorow examines how private equity systematically loots both the pension funds which provide capital for its acquisitions, and the businesses which it…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Dessler writes about the non-linear nature of the environmental effects of carbon pollution – with the result that we’re seeing cascading effects…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Nestled cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Daniel Altmann et al. examine the myriad forms of long COVID even as governments have gone out of their way to pretend…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Neil Shaw reports on the demands by Scottish doctors that their government reinstate COVID -19protections in health care facilities. And Tia Ewing reports…
Up in the air: Porter’s new transcontinental service
Many people “back East” as we westerners call Ontario will be familiar with Porter Airways. They fly turboprop Q400s out of the Billy Bishop (Island) Airport to nearby points in…