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…
The ICC: the law embraces environmental science
We are, of course, doing it to ourselves. Warming up the planer that is. To... The post The ICC: the law embraces environmental science first appeared on Views from the…
Godzilla Minus One: Some Thoughts
I have been watching Godzilla films since the late 1950s or early ’60s, when the edited American version (1956) of the 1954 Japanese original was released and was finally shown…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The University of Oxford has released new research showing that politicians underestimate the public's demand for climate action. Adam Morton discusses how Australia's Labor…
Unbridled Corruption In A Fascist America
The state legislature in Texas tried to pass a bill to redistrict the state to gerrymander five more Republican congressmen for next year’s mid-term elections.
Random Roundup: that canny Carney; the diddler on the roof; no-seat Poilievre
Just a few commentaries tonight, mainly about how well Carney is dealing with Trump and the tariffs, as the American economy begins to collapse. Guy Lawson / Rolling Stone Why…
Canada dismissed Kyrgyzstan’s environmental concerns as ‘pretext’ in mine dispute, documents reveal
The Kumtor mine is one of the largest gold mines in Central Asia. Photo courtesy the Kumtor Gold Company. When Kyrgyzstan nationalized the Kumtor gold mine in 2021, citing environmental…
Forget free trade
A Ford Motor Company employee at the Oakville Assembly Plant. Photo by Sam VarnHagen/Flickr. From the outset of the trade war, the United States has imposed tariffs in order to…
Alberta NDP will not formally participate in Forever Canadian petition drive
The Alberta NDP will not formally participate in the Forever Canadian petition drive. On Monday, I asked the Opposition Party how it expected to interact with former Progressive Conservative Deputy…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Fronting cat.
CBC, Israel, Jews and the truth
Media truth. For many, those words are an oxymoron – you know, two words that have the opposite meaning of the other. For many supporters of Israel and Western democracy,…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Noah Berlatsky discusses how Donald Trump is imposing a recession on America at large while dispensing obscene riches for his cronies, while Mona…