NYC-ABC PP/POW updates November 14, 2023
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
I’m Getting Tired
The woes of the world are wearing me down. I therefore choose to change channels completely today and focus on comedy, one of the few escapes this world permits almost…
The ever-increasing dichotomy of America
Seven years ago, Donald Trump was elected 45th President of the United States. And he’s trying to come back for another round. The forces that brought him to power in…
On Legislating Kindness
If kind, other-centred behaviour isn’t entirely natural to us, then should it be legislated (more than it already is)? Many old timey philosophers agree that happiness is predicated on an…
Historic setback for complainants against police abuse in Québec
From the series “#ACAB” by Québecois photographer Benoit Paillé. Remember 2020? That year, the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer sparked a protest movement across North America,…
Today’s News: My List about the Israel-Hamas War
Credit: WarMapper I have started a new Twitter List of people who have useful perspectives on this awful war — I call it just “Israel-Hamas War” and you can sign…
Reap What You Sow.
Does it come as a surprise that the most serious antisemitic incidents in Canada since the October 7 war was launched in the Middle East, have taken place in Quebec?…
Red Deer Catholic school trustee who compared pride flags to swastika banners is out – but that’s unlikely to be the end of the story
Monique LaGrange, the Red Deer Catholic school trustee who compared rainbow pride flags to Nazi swastika banners in a social media post in late August, has been given the bum’s…
C-58, a victory for workplace democracy
People have fought for rights in their workplaces as long as there have been workplaces. The first labour strike in recorded history took place in Egypt in the reign of…
Perhaps it’s my memory
You know, after Putin invaded Ukraine and started killing civilians there, I don’t recall any attacks on Ukrainian businesses or students here, or protestors chanting Putin would make Ukraine free,…
No one cares what you say
Worse than the fact that Canada’s voice has become irrelevant internationally under his watch, worse than his malignant solipsism – is his total inauthenticity. He’s just so, so phony. “This…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Possessive cats.
My latest: the biggest liars
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, some people will eventually believe it. The author of that one, of course, was Joseph Goebbels, and he would…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Cory Doctorow discusses how the concentration of wealth and power in corporate hands represents a threat to individual freedoms and the pursuit…
My three favorite reads last year
This was a fun little exercise – pick your three favorite reads from the last year. It’s on a book and author discovery site called… The post My three favorite…
How War In Gaza Should Change The Rules Of War
Current international law on war is largely derived from the fallout of WWII. It’s seen a little bit of trimming around the edges, but for the most part it is…
Carbon Folly
Politicians are chipping away at the carbon tax. Pierre Poilievre wants to “axe the tax” entirely. The situation upsets former environment minister Catherine McKenna. She writes: Life is full of…
Western students must stand up for Palestine
Pro-Palestinian student rally at McGill University, November 9, 2023. Photo courtesy Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights McGill-SPHR McGill/Twitter. As students, we stand as inheritors of our small, delicate planet. One…
On not teaching Palestine
Organizers with Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) gather at York University in Toronto on November 20, 2019. Photo courtesy Independent Jewish Voices Canada. It snowed that morning, but by the…