despite our most egregious errors we can, and must, defend what is morally right — As a Canadian, I’m acutely aware of our dismal history regarding the Indigenous people of this country. The recent uncovering of mass graves of Native schoolchildren and the story of the residential schools generally — the last of which closed as recently as the 1990s — has shattered Canadians’ pride…

Just another good old Canadian « exposition de merde » ! — Hey followers, hangers-on and random stumblers-upon, sorry I’ve been MIA but it’s hard work fending off all the convoy dudes with one hand tied behind my back and a can of Molson in the other. Yeah, that was all my fault, that snafu in Ottawa. Kind of embarrassing, right? On…

I never thought I’d become so heartily sick of hearing the word “freedom” — A lady of, I’d estimate, forty years or so, with a pudgy face that could belong to your childcare worker, the cashier at Loblaw’s, maybe, if you push your luck, an elementary school class, separates from her group of friends and struts towards police officers we’ve just seen carrying away…

Let’s consign these words and concepts to the dustbin, stop talking, and start listening — They say the secret to bricks-and-mortar retail success is location, location, location. The secret to marketing success — and that includes the conservative marketing of bumper-stickers pretending to be actual thinking — is repetition, repetition, repetition. Marketing is basically mind manipulation and to this end typically employs the cognitive bias…

because… that’s just what we do now — In a shock seasonal weather event that has Canadians reeling with the absolute expectedness of it all, Toronto, the largest city in a country famous for hardly anything apart from its cold winters with masses of snow, ground to a total, shocked halt on January 17th, 2022 — a day…

I wish I was joking — My suspicions were first aroused when Amy Coney Barrett — and do you mind if I just refer to her from now on as “ACB”? I have my health to consider — when ACB remarked, a propos the MO of Supreme Court Justices, “We’re not just a bunch of partisan…

and it’s not incumbent on Democrats to save US democracy — This week, Joe Biden traveled to Georgia, that bastion of color-blind equality, to make a hell-raising speech in which he drew a line in the sand: Which side are you on? Are you on the side of democracy, or the side of authoritarianism? Racial justice or white supremacy? It was…