Saturday Photo: A Little Action….
I see I haven't posted for a while. Been busy with a number of things, including getting this cat to behave! Actually she's a sweetheart and has been relatively easy…
Saturday Photo: A Little Action….
I see I haven't posted for a while. Been busy with a number of things, including getting this cat to behave! Actually she's a sweetheart and has been relatively easy…
Manufacturing Reality: Truth Enrages The Tyrant
'For anyone capable of real thought, it should be very clear that the increasingly unhinged Don Trump is using his presidency to manufacture his own reality. And anything or anyone…
Globe and Mail Letter
Please see my letter to the editor, published in today’s Globe and Mail, in which I support lowering the voting age in Canada: What’s in a number? Re “Lower the…
I think America finally understands they may be completely f*cked
These days I often think of Paul Simon's American Tune: ...For we lived so well so long Still, when I think of the Road we're traveling on I wonder what's…
Musical interlude
Lest anybody worry there wouldn't be a definitive song of summer 2025...Tame Impala - End Of Summer
Sidewalk flappery
Opinion from birds on the street #ldnont, #homeless, #city
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Ed Burmilla highlights Donald Trump's appeal to bored and self-indulgent people who are prepared to change their identities and voting patterns based on the…
Elbows Up, Canada!
Well, that's that. And Canada says "fuck you very much" to Trump: This is Canadian diplomatic speak for "Trump can go puck himself"— White Rose Resistance (@whiteroseresistance.org) July 31, 2025…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thusday reading.- Ross Andersen discusses how the Trump regime's combination of funding cuts and anti-knowledge ideology is destroying the U.S.' position as a scientific and…
His Naked Ambition
By now it should be clear to most rational people that the emperor has no clothes. His naked ambition to rule the world is becoming quite, quite clear. And unless…
Elections Alberta approves Thomas Lukaszuk’s ‘Alberta Forever Canada’ citizen initiative petition
No sooner was Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer embroiled in a back and forth with Danielle Smith and her justice minister about his decision to ask the courts if a referendum…
This is what Canada recognized
A Thai man is lying on the ground. He seems to be bleeding from a gunshot wound to his chest. The man moves his arms, a bit. A Gazan man,…
NDP Leadership Candidates and the Monarchy: Yves Engler
Source: Yves Engler's Campaign Page The NDP leadership race is going to be a long one with it not set toconclude until 2026. Even so thereare two candidates alreadydeclared. As…
Living Well is the Best Revenge
I cut my finger cooking today and its a little sore for typing. So just a short post tonight -- I thought this was such a great story of how…
Under Mark Carney, capital’s leading lobby group is back in the driver’s seat
Under Mark Carney, Canada’s Liberal government has become the willing instrument of corporate power, reviving the Business Council’s backroom rule and sidelining democracy in the process. Photo courtesy Mark Carney/Facebook.…
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2025-07-30 17:06:00
Lithuania, 1941 — She Was Told to Undress, Then Told to SingIn the quiet woods of Ponary, just outside Vilnius, thousands of Jews were marched to their deaths by Nazi…
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2025-07-30 17:06:00
Lithuania, 1941 — She Was Told to Undress, Then Told to SingIn the quiet woods of Ponary, just outside Vilnius, thousands of Jews were marched to their deaths by Nazi…
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2025-07-30 16:51:00
The Forgotten Victims: The Fate of Roma and Sinti in AuschwitzAt least 23,000 Roma and Sinti men, women, and children were deported to Auschwitz by the Nazi regime. Among them…
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2025-07-30 16:51:00
The Forgotten Victims: The Fate of Roma and Sinti in AuschwitzAt least 23,000 Roma and Sinti men, women, and children were deported to Auschwitz by the Nazi regime. Among them…