My Grandma passed away, yesterday, Saturday, March 10th, near 14h45 in the afternoon. Funnily enough, some of the calmest and happiest memories of childhood that I have are of playing with antique red, and white wind-up cars under the heavy wooden kitchen table in Grandma & Grandpa's LaSalle apartment when I was young.
Those cars were quite possibly ( Read more... )

Haven't been on in a good while, just due to both the difficulties and sometimes fullness of life. May everyone be doing very well! 'Still dealing with periodic flashbacks of the bad kind over here (thank-you Josée Bolduc), which still makes life more difficult than yea'd hope. Some steady improvement of a kind, at times, got juggered by some ( Read more... )

Greek philosophic term of the week: Eudaimonia (common trans: "happiness, bliss, blessedness"). Though commonly translated as happiness, eudaimonia has all the hallmarks of a symbolic expression  which became an idiom and eventually a stand-alone noun. The expression would have been transparent in its meaning back in a certain epoch, but certainly ( Read more... )

Thomas Jefferson wrote, in 1789, that “wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government;” he backed up that claim by founding the University of Virginia, about which he wrote, in 1820: “This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow the truth ( Read more... )

Why Canada's federal parties will have precious little choice but to actually cultivate AFN votes:

“If you want to become an MP, you better listen to us. You better focus on our issues because we’re voting now,” he said, adding that in the past, MPs wouldn’t care about Indigenous issues because they knew they wouldn’t vote anyways ( Read more... )

"The Great Eastern Sun is wakefulness and genuineness reflected in every aspect of our being. This realization brings a feeling of being a truly human being. Physically, psychologically, domestically, spiritually, you feel a gut sense of health and wholesomeness in your life, as if you were holding a solid brick of gold." -- “The Shambhala Warrior ( Read more... )

THE MOST DRAMATIC cybersecurity story of 2016 came to a quiet conclusion Friday in an Anchorage courtroom, as three young American computer savants pleaded guilty to masterminding an unprecedented botnet-powered by unsecured internet-of-things devices like security cameras and wireless routers-that unleashed sweeping attacks on key internet ( Read more... )

Literally just got the following ad in my FB feed: "Humans exhale carbon dioxide (CO2) with each breath. Plants grow by converting CO2 into biomass. CO2 is the gas of life, not a pollutant. Climate alarmism is a dangerous cult, NOT science. https://defyccc.com/g_breath/Read more... )

It looks like the Parti Quebecois (Quebec's traditional sovereignist/separatist party), is doing rather poorly in the polls - trailing in a distant third place in the run-up to the next election period. It seems that the PQ are failing to outrace demographics, and their alienation of allophones and anglophones.

Un nouveau sondage Léger-Le Devoir ( Read more... )

As a giant polisci nerd, I find this fascinating and intruiging...

"In a show of backbencher strength, NDP MP Sheila Malcolmson could become the first MP in history to force her colleagues in the House of Commons into a secret ballot to save a piece of legislation ( Read more... )