Saturday Photo: The Bee’s Knees in Monique’s Gardem
Hot and dry, and the flowers, if they've been watered regularly, are blooming. This pleases the bees, seen here enjoying my friend Monique's lovely garden.
How Prime Ministers are tested
When a Canadian Jewish man is viciously attacked and beaten for being a Jew, in front of his child, the response should not be to tweet about a fucking cat.…
Things that make you say "hmmm….." — a Poilievre action doll, the BR-C ballot, our Purrr Minister, the grandiose White House, plus other odds and sods
Maybe Poilievre is just an action figure doll now? I don't know who did this, but isn't it great? The advance polls are open in Battle River-Crowfoot. As this video…
Musical interlude
Boy Harsher - Burn It Down
Contact the CRTC Regarding Fox News Threat
https://applications.crtc.gc.ca/PublicComplaintForm/eng/makeAComplaint Aug 8th. Fox News “The Five” host Watters suggested the USA should “invade” Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta, using some violence if necessary. Their broadcasts should not be allowed in…
Global Geopolitics 2025 – Assessing Russia, & Surviving The 21st Century
Assessing Russia: Reality & Basic Sanity vs Propaganda & Delusion A snapshot, arial perspective and overview of Russia in 2025, within the broader global and historical context, in a rapidly…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Alexis Okeowo reports on the plight of women who bravely spoke out in the course of the #metoo movement, only to be shunned as…
Today’s News: Mboko wins, South Park wins, Carney carries on, Conservatives panic, and Trump trashes Washington
Congrats to Victoria Mboko, winning the National Bank Open in Montreal tonight - outstanding, gutsy: Enfant Mboko et une jeune Andrescu. Deux Canadiennes 🇨🇦 à avoir gagné le Tournoi 🇨🇦…
Manitoba is no friend to Palestine
Pro-Palestine activists rally at the Manitoba Legislative Building nearly one year after the attacks of October 7, 2023 attacks. Photo courtesy CTV News. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s oft-repeate...
Where’s the War Room – fearless adversary of the New York Times – now that the UCP needs it?
Where’s the Alberta Energy “War Room” now that the United Conservative Party needs it? Yesterday The New York Times published a major feature story on Alberta’s burgeoning measles epidemic –…
Please, for the love of glob, stop making re-usable bags!
You know how before the plastic bag ban came along to save us from the scourge of bags-of-bags stuffed into closets or drawers, to be maybe reused once as doggy-doo…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Sonya Angell examines the connection between extreme weather events caused by the climate breakdown and adverse health effects, while noting that there's a…
Rural mail goodbye?
For decades, residents living in rural areas around eastern Ontario could tell they had mail delivered if the flag on their mailbox was up. Now, they’re being told Canada Post…
Rural mail goodbye?
For decades, residents living in rural areas around eastern Ontario could tell they had mail delivered if the flag on their mailbox was up. Now, they’re being told Canada Post…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates August 5, 2025
NOTE: If you regularly send packets to Ronald Reed, his mail now gets routed through a third party, for-profit, vendor:Ronald Reed #219531MCF-Lino Lakes, MinnesotaPost Office Box 247Phoenix, Maryland 21131 Click…
Not The Beaverton? Not the Onion? Sure sounds like the August crazies are here!
I can't remember whether August has always been so bizarre -- maybe this craziness happens every year and we just forget all about it after school starts again. Maybe its…
Government lawyer will be in court today to intervene on the side of Alberta separatists
A government lawyer will be in court today in Edmonton to intervene on behalf of a group that wants Alberta to separate from Canada. A letter yesterday from a Justice…
Carney is pushing Canadian liberalism to its breaking point
The real battle over the Carney government’s Bill C-5 will unfold not in courtrooms but on railroad tracks, forestry roads, at ports, and in cities across the country. Photo by…