Redecorating Isn’t Reform
Not only in Canada
States of exception
Stripped, blindfolded, and bound Palestinian civilians are taken prisoner and ordered into a line by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza in December 2023. Photo from a social media post by…
Long Threads: Some things I didn’t know
I suffer from"vellichor" myself!X is slowing down but I still find some great "long threads" posts.These comparison photos are fascinating:2. Big oak tree, Thomasville, Georgia, 1885 to 2020 pic.twitter.com/tHUe1j8fMZ— Time…
Danielle Smith touts frightening AHS leaders, handing hospitals to church-run system as cures for Alberta’s health care woes
A story published by a community newspaper chain late Monday quotes Premier Danielle Smith telling a United Conservative Party town hall in Drayton Valley how she plans to hand over…
Premier Smith and the fascist hatemonger
When Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi called Premier Danielle Smith “dangerous,” I thought he was... The post Premier Smith and the fascist hatemonger first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Extended cat.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Matthew Rosza discusses the growing recognition that there's little chance of holding to our one-time target of 1.5 degrees of global warming -…
How The UCP Is Lining Up To Steal Your Healthcare (and Rights)
Things are beginning to line up in terms of the UCP's plan and we can see now how they are going to attack health care and Albertans. There's quite a…
What Is the Soul of Open Educational Resources?
I have already written a short post in OLDaily responding to Heather Ross's post but I would like to expand a bit on it with a short post here.The gist…
Legal News Post of the Day: August 27, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Canada Will Impose 100% Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicles #law #legal #legalnews via @nytimes https://t.co/xAPQebsGBO - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Testing this blog page at samupress
Where does this post automatically go? Where can it be seen? Is Samupress.ca allowed only one blog page? Once again, I am completely lost in this block / menu building…
Bandung of the North, Sept. 27-29 in Montreal
From the Bandung of the North website (français suit en bas): The Bandung Conference of the North continues in the spirit of Bandung 1955, the first intercontinental conference of non-white…
Back to School in a Wave
This is the first September that I'm not going to school as a teacher OR a student since I was 4 years old (not counting maternity leaves for all my…
Standard Operating Procedure
On the Right, lying has become standard operating procedure. Jim Stanford writes:The PR flacks working in the Conservative Party’s media war room are nothing if not zealous. They regularly issue…
Standard Operating Procedure
On the Right, lying has become standard operating procedure. Jim Stanford writes:The PR flacks working in the Conservative Party’s media war room are nothing if not zealous. They regularly issue…
But Only If You Agree With Me
Free speech is great. It is a principle that most people claim to support, but sometimes that support is contingent upon the subject under consideration. In a shameful episode yesterday,…
Boomer landlords are holding housing hostage
Our elders should never have been compelled to involve themselves in real estate ponzi schemes to attain a dignified retirement. Our parents and grandparents deserve better. Photo courtesy the Library…
Today’s News: Show Me The Money! Why Trump wasn’t impeached in 2020
Listen to Republican H.R. McMaster straight-up confirm the basis of the *first* Trump impeachment: that Trump stalled critical military aid for Ukraine to try to get election dirt on the…
Outrageous! Is there anything left to be said?
I searched Google to see if Postmedia's Vancouver Sun had reported on this outrageous story. A friend thinks Tyler Olsen is probably BC's hardest working journalist. His tiny team at…