A visitors guide to Edmonton
Since going to the U.S.A. is now unCanadian (sorry, Spokane, maybe next year) Alberta tourist destinations should be having a banner year. But where to go? Jasper is lovely, just…
On Recognising the Palestinian State
Mark Carney says that Canada intends to recognise the state of Palestine next month at the United Nations.
Sunday Funday: Windmills, doomscrolling, and all the other crazy stuff going on, plus TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers
A good idea for responding to the tariffs:Here's a good one, too: These ugly windmills are killing the motherf*€king whales 🐳 😂😅🤣— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) July 31, 2025 at…
Beset by scandals, patriotic pushback, and new rivals, Alberta’s UCP wants us to be mad about … bicycle lanes!
Beset by allegations of health care contracting corruption, international coverage of a self-inflicted measles epidemic, anger at municipal political parties nobody wants, increasingly aggressive push-back against their separatist project, and…
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2025-08-02 20:15:00
1 August 1943 | Liquidation of the Będzin GhettoZagłębie Dąbrowskie, Occupied PolandOn 1 August 1943, the final blow fell on the Będzin Ghetto.Once home to a vibrant Jewish community —…
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2025-08-02 20:15:00
1 August 1943 | Liquidation of the Będzin GhettoZagłębie Dąbrowskie, Occupied PolandOn 1 August 1943, the final blow fell on the Będzin Ghetto.Once home to a vibrant Jewish community —…
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…