Callousness Or Cowardice?
In my previous post, I spoke about Canada's strange silence regarding Cuba, despite its long relationship with the island nation. In today's Globe and Mail, a letter-writer addresses the issue:…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates February 3, 2025
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
There Must Be No More ‘Thoughts And Prayers’
École Polytechnique, Dunblane, Columbine, Sandy Hook, and so many others in so many places over so many years, with Tumbler Ridge now joining this infamous list.
Housing and homelessness online forum – February 23
Affordable housing is a major problem, with many Canadians struggling with high costs and the inadequate supply of suitable homes. These struggles can impact health, happiness, and financial stability, and…
Today’s News: Mourning with Tumbler Ridge, plus Olympic Catch-up
The people of Tumbler Ridge gathered to mourn together on Wednesday night.Prime Minister Carney says "All of Canada stands by you": The BC Government has set up a Condolence Book…
Should I stay or should I go? ♪♫ Now Alberta separatists are upset that us woke folk might want to leave!
A recent Angus Reid Institute poll that suggests three quarters of the significant majority of Albertans who want no part of Alberta separation would leave the province if Alberta separated…
Correlation Fallacy and the Tumbler Ridge Tragedy
Yesterday, a person in Tumbler Ridge, BC went into the high school and shot a large number of people, killing 6 at the school, and injuring dozens more. This is…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Zoe Williams writes that Donald Trump is just the most egregious and unrestrained example of the vice-signalling which has become standard operating procedure among…
The Moreness of Everything
The title of this post comes from a subhead in Thomas De Zengotita’s book, Mediated: How the Media Shape the World Around You (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005) in which the author…
Today’s News: Carney deserves a medal for dealing with Trump, plus Tuesday Olympic catchup, and our tragedy at Tumbler Ridge
I think our Prime Minister Mark Carney deserves his own medal - gold, of course - for having to deal so often with Trump and his fantasies. Prime Minister Carney…
It’s All a Charade
File this under, "Things we already know or ought to know." The BMJ just published a feature called, "Why Covid-19 is 'A Vascular Disease Masquerading as a Respiratory One.'" The…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Multidirectional cat.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Brian Beutler writes that the events of Super Bowl weekend show how Donald Trump - even with the support of most of the…
Building Community
Responding to Alan Levine: On “Building” Community I Got BubkisI totally get what you're feeling. I've been online since the 1980s 'building community' the whole time. What do I have…
Plague Update: POStmedia Aims To Kill
The Gazette published an absolute turd of an article. Here are some of the lowlights: “Outside of a health-care institution, people aren’t really thinking about transmission,” he said. “In a…
Where Is Canada’s Voice?
I am old enough to have seen much, and I am certainly a realist when it comes to politics. As Bismarck said, it is "the art of the possible." That…
Today’s News: Olympic Catch-up, Bad Bunny and the grasses, Trump take bridge, and the Epstein Tsunami
Olympic Catch-up Megan Oldham bronze! View on Threads The family and friends reactions one of my favourite parts of the Olympics. They’ve been on this journey too. And they couldn’t…
Apparently the UCP is OK with 18 of its MLAs being publicly identified as separatists
It would appear that the United Conservative Party Caucus is OK with having 18 of its members, including eight cabinet ministers, publicly identified as supporters of Alberta independence from Canada,…