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Mostly Lotuslandian...
Ray Tomlin, he of Van Ramblings, has a great description of the best places to see Christmas lights and decorations in Lotusland Central...
Ray Tomlin, he of Van Ramblings, has a great description of the best places to see Christmas lights and decorations in Lotusland Central...
The City Duo, after first detailing how they considered packing it in this year (No! Don't do it!), describe what they are looking forward to covering on the Lotuslandian planning and development fronts in 2022 including the ol' stomping grounds of the current prime minister (i.e. the Jericho Lands) and the Broadway Plan...
Bob Mackin of the Breaker.news, notes that some BC Liberal 'insiders' are apparently questioning the validity of a big whack of Kevin Falcon's party membership sign-ups in the run-up to the leadership vote in early February...Who'd a thunk it, given the previous membership sign-up shenanigans perpetrated by the leadership campaigns of C. Clark and T. Stone. Coincidentally (or, perhaps not), the good Mr. Stone is a current backer of heavy Kevvy.
Speaking of the BC Liberal leadership race, Paul Ramsey breaks down the numbers to illustrate the party's diversity problem, an issue first raised by former BCL light heavyweight Jas Johal on the Twittmachine.
Writing in the Tyee, Jen St. Denis, tells us about the life and times, and the recent passing, of the amazing Ken Lyotier, the binner who made things better for everyone...A fund to support initiatives designed to improve the lives of folks in the DTES has been set up in Mr. Lyotier's name.
Also writing in the Tyee, Kyle Willmott, explains why, after showing many, many receipts, he has concluded that the Canadian Taxpayer' Federation consistently displays a bias against initiatives designed to improve the lives of indigenous peoples, especially when they can label such initiatives 'handouts'...Once I finished reading Mr. Willmott's post, I couldn't help but think of the original turf-based sin that was the Gipper's race-based anti-welfare smear.
Writing for the (not always so) VancouverIsAwesome, Mike Howell fills us in on the process by which the City of Vancouver is hiring its first ever integrity commissioner.
Further-Afield-O-Dome...
Not-so-secret science and medical guy Orac, writing on his own Respectful Insolence shingle, explains why the COVID antiviral paxlovid, which was recently approved by the US FDA, is not 'Pfizermectin'.... And, just so you know, my post on how this class of drugs works, and why they do not rely on kickstarting the immune system, is coming - promise.
The chief keeper of the Freethought Blog Collective flame, PZ Myers, who lives in near rural Minnesota, wonders what kind of near rural Minnesotans would trash accepting parents who choose to help their kid work things out, judgement-free, when it comes to discovering their own identity and place in the world.
The Reverend Paperboy, who lives in that part of Southern Ontario that is not the Center of the Universe, goes on a very fine rant about wealth inequality in Canada. He also points out that the powers that be only get really upset about the matter when people actually try to do something about it.
Other Huff 'N Puff Stuff...
Writing in the Vancouver Sun, Peter McKnight has an Op-Ed up in which he details why conversion therapy puts people's lives at risk and Dan Fumano reports on how Vancouver city council has made actual moves to boost the development of rental housing stock.
Trevor Melanson has an opinion piece in the National Observer, in which he argues that Canadians need to see, hear and learn about climate change initiatives and policies that are working so as to beget public support for additional initiatives and policies, some of which may be more difficult to implement than others...
Robert Reich, writing at his own Substack, explains why he does not trust the mainstream media while pointing out how he, and us too, can still use same said MSM, together with other media whose bonafides have stress-tested, to keep up to speed on news that actually matters...
Finally, Gillian Brockell uses a passel of Washington Post pixels to to tell us how and why, via the story of Jermain Wesley Loguen's escape from slavery in 1835, it was easiest to successfully hop aboard the Undergraound Railway during the height of the Christmas season....Ms. Brockell also points us toward a most fantastic Letter of Note in which Mr. Loguen righteously replies to a request from his form slaveowner's wife for extortive recompense...Essentially JWL tells the OG Karen to stick her attempt at extortion where the sun doesn't shine for all the right reasons.
What I'm Listening To...
....Cover Me's top 50 cover tunes of 2021...So far I like Widowspeak's take on Mark Knopfler's 'Romeo and Juliet' best...
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Image at the top of the post is a portrait of the unabashed abolitionist and bishop JW Loguen after he returned to the United States. Initially, JWL lived and worked in Canada after he first stepped off the underground railroad, a transport network that he later helped run when he set up a major pre-border crossing station/safe house in Syracuse New York.
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Image at the top of the post is a portrait of the unabashed abolitionist and bishop JW Loguen after he returned to the United States. Initially, JWL lived and worked in Canada after he first stepped off the underground railroad, a transport network that he later helped run when he set up a major pre-border crossing station/safe house in Syracuse New York.
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