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Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2025 Aug 02
Music of the Week – In Memoriam Edition
Article of the Week
As to why all this has been banished from official memory, it has everything to do with the way postmodern historians, pseudo-left academic activists and a succession of Liberal politicians have shaped the way we are allowed to talk about ourselves. About the way we are instructed to talk about slavery, about racism, immigration and the dynamic role Indigenous people played in building a new world from the late 1700s to well into the 20th century. - Emancipation Day: Against Revisionism, by Terry Glavin
Posted: 2025 Aug 03
Category Archives: Officialdom
A Great 2021
Says who? Continue reading
Fast: Just Try to Pick It
Who makes (up) these rules, anyway? Continue reading
Flaggin’ It
A mathematical deep-dive into national emblems. Continue reading
The Drum Roll, Please
An exciting announcement, on behalf of the Government of Canada. You heard it here first. Continue reading
Posted in Laughing Frequently, New Perspectives, Officialdom, Photos of Flora
Tagged Community, Other Plants
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Security Theatre?
Somehow I don’t feel any safer. Continue reading
Posted in Officialdom, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Critical Thinking, Trains & Boats & Planes
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Who You Gonna Call?
I’ve been robbed. Call the police. Continue reading
Open Sesame?
Waiting in line at a border crossing, I am reminded of, and inspired by, a classical scene from a classic fantasy novel: The Lord of the Rings. Continue reading
What Do You Mean by That?
Razor sharp after a midnight departure from Vancouver and 15 hours in the air, I squint again at Question 9. The series of 11 questions had started with a seemingly innocuous lead-in: “Are you bringing into Australia . . . … Continue reading
Stick. String. Nerve. Not.
As a communicator, my default assumption is that a situation gone bad — whether at home or work — is all about the medium selected, the words chosen, the tone used. But the failure here was not one of communication, but of nerve. Continue reading