The Weirdness of Now
This morning I listened to a Naomi Klein interview from this week about her very different type of book, while reading a prescient Geroge Monbiot article that he reposted from…
Save the date: London (UK) in May 2024
I’m pleased to share a ‘save the date’ for study tour: London (UK) in May 2024. Here’s the link: https://cihcanada.ca/calendar-by-month/calendar-by-list/ For this particular event, there will be two components: a…
Why humans can’t trust humans: You don’t know how they work, what they’re going to do or whether they will serve your interests
In response to ‘Why humans can’t trust AI: You don’t know how it works, what it’s going to do or whether it’ll serve your interests‘. There are alien minds among…
Mike Roman
In Georgia, a guy named Mike Roman has been indicted in the case involving Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the election in that state. Michael Harris writes…
Makes Perfect Sense To Me
What’s good for the silly goose should be good for the gander, eh? Recommend this Post
The Social Contract
How shall we be governed? Philosophers have debated that issue since Plato and the question is more important today than ever, given the rise of right-wing extremism everywhere, especially in…
Despite widespread abuses, Canada maintains support for Rwandan government
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Rwandan President Paul Kagame on the margins of the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France, August 2019. Photo courtesy the Prime Minister’s Office. For three…
Ford’s Smoke Screen.
Somebody must have told premier Doug Ford that he could use MPP Paul Calandra as a smoke screen to cover up what he is letting happen in the Greenbelt. By…
Stages of Genocide
We like to think we are way beyond barbarity and that the outrageously cruel acts of the past (many not in the too distant past) will never be anything we…
Saturday Photo: More Permanent Housing
This wasp nest suddenly appeared this week. Wasn’t there on Monday, I’m sure, but it was looming like a malevalent piñata on Thursday. Wasps are really amazing in the way…
Today’s tonic: “My question for Doug Ford: When it comes to gender who is indoctrinating whom?”
Today's tonic: "My question for Doug Ford: When it comes to gender who is indoctrinating whom?" by Toronto Star writer Emma Teitel. "This entire gender identity freakout rests on the…
Today’s tonic: “My question for Doug Ford: When it comes to gender who is indoctrinating whom?”
Today's tonic: "My question for Doug Ford: When it comes to gender who is indoctrinating whom?" by Toronto Star writer Emma Teitel. "This entire gender identity freakout rests on the…
Today’s tonic: “My question for Doug Ford: When it comes to gender who is indoctrinating whom?”
Today’s tonic: “My question for Doug Ford: When it comes to gender who is indoctrinating whom?” by Toronto Star writer Emma Teitel. “This entire gender identity freakout rests on the…
My latest: hero to zero
Hero to zero. That’s the transformation that takes place in politics, if you overstay your welcome. And it happens pretty fast, too. That’s why they say a week is a…
Bad Night in Thunder Bay.
The Ontario liberals are not that inept. It was like an out-of-town try-out of a major play. The first debate in the current liberal leadership contest was allowed to have…
Musical interlude
Dayseeker – Homesick
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Damian Carrington reports on a “scientific health check” showing that Earth’s life support systems are well outside what’s safe for humanity. But Jonathan…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 15, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Man found with guns and drugs after calling in overdose has sentence overturned by Saskatchewan Court of Appeal due to Good Samaritan Act #law #legal #LawTwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/33rsn25n…