March in downtown Columbus, Ohio in support of Palestine, October 2023. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. What does “From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free” actually mean? And…
Two pet peeves I have these days are self-checkouts and gratuities. They are wrongs inflicted on employees and customers alike. Gratuities and self-checkouts belittle the employee and are an imposition…
Hamas apparently doesn’t know where at least 40 of the hostages are. In his nightly Ukraine post at Balloon Juice, Adam Silverman is also keeping up with the latest news…
When someone tells you Danielle Smith is a shrewd politician remind them of how she botched the APP consultation process. Last week, the Dinning panel wrapped up the last of…
Mycoplasma pneumonia infections are on the rise in children in parts of the world, but the typically mild illness is sending them to the hospital. Forbes reports, “Typically, mycoplasma pneumonia…
In my travels on Twitter (sorry, X) this morning, I saw this, and it raises more questions than it answers: This is a “look, it works!” statement. We had already…
Help is here. After the past several years of feeling like a voice in the wilderness, there is support for the contention that capturing and storing carbon is a dumb…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith confirmed yesterday she’s about to use her Alberta Sovereignty Act – the clearly unconstitutional legislation that even her United Conservative Party predecessor Jason Kenney called “a…
The world’s richest man is not amused. Elon Musk, CEO and biggest shareholder of automaker Tesla, is annoyed at a series of strikes against his company. He calls them “insane.”…
According to IEA, Canada’s per capita emissions of methane are almost three time the global average, more than half from the energy sector. Methane releases in Canada are likely worse…
Hate is everywhere, these days. How to stop it? Jew hatred is statistically the worst, of course, with anti-Semitic crimes and incidents happening everywhere on a near-daily basis. But the…
Make sure you have Powershell version 5.1 or better Open Powershell, type: $PSVersionTable.PSVersion Install update if you don’t have it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-on-windows Make sure you have the SSH service installed Type:…
We have to acknowledge how far we’ve gone down the rabbit hole of lies to be able to ignore this Covid wave that’s almost reaching the highest peak of hospitalizations.…
Over at Conservative propaganda rag “National Post”, we have Tasha Kheiriddin trying to turn the lack of attention on the civil war going on in Sudan into “why criticizing Israel’s…
One of the pleasures of my retired life is going out for long walks with former colleagues. Having taught at the same school, we have known each other for many…
Maybe we never realized that finance minister and deputy prime minister Cynthia Freeland was so competitive. In her fall economic-statement the other day, she seemed to be competing with conservative…
The stupid, it burns! Yesterday following that awful crash at the Niagara Falls border crossing, somebody in Pierre Poilievre’s office was listening to Fox News when they jumped the gun…
What would we do without plastics? Perhaps the greatest material humanity ever invented. They are used for everything from furniture to DVDs to heart valves to wind turbines, widely used…
Grace – Not Over Yet
