On Expectations of the Season
Today is often a difficult day for many people who celebrate Christmas, and it’s been made worse with the prospect of walking into a family dinner with Covid in the…
Argentina: Neoliberalism In Drag As Freedom
The new president of Argentina calls himself a libertarian, but he is a right-wing libertarian. (The distinction is crucial.) That means, essentially, neo-liberalism on steroids, unchecked and unleashed. Either he…
Ho! Ho! Ho! Christmas comes a little early for the Trans Mountain Pipeline as Ottawa guarantees another couple o’ billion
It appears Christmas came a little early for that unending and expensive Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project, with word of another couple of billion dollars in loan guarantees arriving from…
The Global Fascist Coup: Time To Face Reality
We need to stop making the irrational and unfounded, anti-empirical assumption that the corporate and financial elite are stupid – they are demonstrably sociopathic, but they are not stupid, as…
Realistic Faith: Strength for Those Who Look
It can be hard to keep working to show people that N95s and cleaning air will actually significantly reduce the number of sick, disabled, and dying in our communities. Here…
Hope for Hospitals.
If there are any institutions hoping for better times in 2024, it is our hospitals. I believe the problems are happening across Canada but I can better relate to the…
7,000 children, 60 journalists, 130 UN aid workers … enough?
On September 11th, 2001, the Islamist extremist group al-Qaeda carried out one of the most dramatic terrorist attacks in history on the United States. It knocked down two phallic symbols…
Saturday Photo: Stars…
Season's Greetings, and all that.Here's a link to my Christmas blog, in which there is much about stars...including the sun. https://soderstromyule.blogspot.com/
Saturday Photo: Stars…
Season’s Greetings, and all that. Here’s a link to my Christmas blog, in which there is much about stars…including the sun. https://soderstromyule.blogspot.com/
Israel V Palestine
The conflict between these two peoples has been going on for decades and I will not pretend to understand the history of how they reached the point where so many…
Israel V Palestine
The conflict between these two peoples has been going on for decades and I will not pretend to understand the history of how they reached the point where so many…
My latest: ten predictions for Israel/Gaza in 2024
It’s that time of year – when columnists make predictions about the year ahead. The ones found below were written before this writer, and this newspaper, were targeted by an…
Christmas traditions: 12 Days, Festivus, Messiah, and the oddest Christmas Special ever!
Time for an annual “traditions” post — Twelve Days of Christmas: Festivus: The Messiah: The New York Times writes Handel’s ‘Messiah’ Teaches Us a Surprising Lesson About Tradition: …Fortunately, Handel’s…
For one week, can Canadians please talk about land instead of housing?
Photo by Joseph Kiesecker/Flickr Build a house in Wainfleet. Build the identical house in downtown Toronto. Bring them both to market the same day. The “housing” is exactly the same,…
Progressive journalism outlets come together to form Unrigged
In response to the Online News Act, 20 local, regional and national media outlets, including Canadian Dimension, banded together to launch their own news aggregator, Unrigged. Image courtesy NB Media…
Long Covid Tag
Mentioning Long Covid symptoms to people can set off a series of other stories from people with similar symptoms. It’s out there, but we don’t want to talk about it.…
Purpose of Politicians.
An interesting discussion with a committed liberal the other day was the question of the purpose of our politicians. He insisted that the answer was as simple as: To spend…
Musical interlude
Cannons – Heartbeat Highway