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…
an obvious life hack: how to make streaming more affordable and still enjoy ad-free viewing
Much ink is being spilled, metaphorically speaking, about the changing trends in subscription-based streaming services. Headlines scream that shows on Netflix and Prime will now include ads, implying that users…
From Childcare to Prisons
There’s a growing and obvious labour shortage in certain fields that all connect to one culprit. But we don’t want be explicit about it. And N95s help as well! As…
Big Plans: Small Minds.
There must be some amused apparatchiks at the Ontario Legislature. These are the conservative ones in the premier’s office, charged with keeping Doug Ford out of harm’s way. To them,…
“Human rights” lawyer spouts B.S.
• Hamas hasn’t killed any Jews outside “occupied territories.” • Firebombing a synagogue may not be anti-Semitic. • A Montreal Imam who called for Jews to be exterminated, didn’t. That’s…
Antisemitic attacks in Canada and elsewhere must be condemned and stopped; Peace and security for Palestinians will never happen as long Hamas terrorists remain in power in Gaza
The horrific attacks on innocent Israeli civilians on October 7th by Hamas terrorist thugs truly shocked me and I continue to reel over the details of the brutality, as well…