Canada expanding universal medicare coverage for specific prescriptions
Most of Canada’s universal health care is available on a “universal” basis — everyone has the same access, regardless of income. Prescription coverage is NOT universal: most provinces cover...
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C’mon Kossacks — let’s make this #hashtag and meme trend on social media.Ridicule is a much more potent weapon against pious, sanctimonious right-wing hypocrisy than shouting at them or arguing with...
View ArticleFinally the right time for White House to revoke FOX' credentials in the...
Initial reaction to release of Dominion Voting Systems’ discovery evidence in defamation suit vs FOX News.Not Surprising: The FOX News details of the eyes-wide-open full awareness that “the big lie”...
View ArticleHow about THIS as a "framing statement" -- and as a bumpersticker
I mean — when you can’t go to the grocery store, the doctor’s office or a nightclub without wondering if you are safe, are you really living the American dream?If you cannot send your kids to school...
View ArticleLet's start assigning blame for mass shootings where it really belongs: "A...
Today’s mass shooters are the bastard grandchildren of the“well regulated Militia” amendment How is it that all these mostly-young American mass shooters are able to get their hands on a weapon of war...
View ArticleCanada announces new ban on buying, sale, import, transfer of handguns &...
Canada’s Prime minister today announced sweeping new legislation designed to freeze the number of privately-owned handguns in Canada and reduce the number of assault weapons currently in circulation....
View ArticleMaybe the 19 cops who stood in the hall for 47 mins without saving the kids...
By now everyone knows about the 19 police officers who stood motionless outside the classroom where a slow-motion mass murder was taking place, and by now everyone has a theory or two or three...
View ArticleIf you've forgotten what majority-rule democracy looks like, just look north...
Canadian Majority Public Opinion: Abortion should be legal and should be covered as a medical procedure under Canada’s government-run universal health insurance program.Canadian Law: Abortion is legal...
View ArticleJustice Thomas shows critics that right wing idealogues can be every bit as...
... they can even be ironic!
View ArticleUpdate on anti-war Russian family who fled west after threats of arrest by...
A few weeks back I wrote a Kos diary about a Russian family who suddenly fled the country (leaving behind a prosperous small business) after police arrived at their door threatening arrest for treason...
View ArticleRussian family flees country after cops come to door "collecting evidence" on...
The New York Times Monday published an article describing how thousands of middle-class Russians have fled the country for neighbouring Armenia and (Republic of) Georgia since the Russian invasion of...
View ArticleWill the obscene brutality of the Ukraine invasion end Putin-loving Trump's...
I have nothing more to add — the photo comment says it all.
View ArticleAmerican Exceptionalism: The exceptionally deadly price of American "freedom"
What more can I add… the picture says just about everything.This ^^^ is what the splinter group of Canadian truckers want. (90% of Canadian truckers are vaccinated — about double the rate in...
View ArticleWanna send Putin a scary message? Make Dick Cheney America's new Ambassador...
This is not The Onion and it’s not snark. It’s a serious proposal.People on the left hate Dick Cheney because he is an amoral asshole war-monger. He pretty well single-handedly dragged America into a...
View ArticleCanadians fired for refusing employer vaccination mandate ineligible for gov...
In Canada unemployment insurance is run strictly by the federal government, and the provinces have nothing to do with it. Employees pay into the insurance fund as a compulsory payroll deduction. If...
View ArticleLaw in British Columbia, Canada now banishes the unvaccinated from a wide...
Government in the Canadian province of British Columbia is done f*cking around with pro-COVID anti-vaxxers. On Monday the provincial Premier (counterpart to and American state governor) announced new...
View ArticleTucker's love affair with Hungary: not a word about its government-run...
AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN WITH THE TUCKER CARLSON HYPOCRACY.Carlson is spending a week in Hungary slavishly praising fascist leader Orban and Hungarian government policies that allegedly protect the...
View ArticleA cat-5 COVID hurricane is heading our way - world is almost oblivious to...
I’m not sure whether people who don’t normally work with numbers on a daily basis truly appreciate the difference between a virus where each carrier infects on average2 other people compared to a virus...
View ArticleLet's call this anti-vax selfishness what it really is: the "Typhoid Mary...
Typhoid Mary was a real person.Her name was Mary Mallon, and she worked as a domestic cook for a series of wealthy NYC families just over a century ago. She was an asymptomatic carrier for typhoid...
View ArticleCongress hears how Canada is out-competing USA attracting talented,...
Democratic congress members this week warned of a “reverse brain drain” where the U.S. is losing the race to attract smart, skilled, well-educated immigrants. The warnings were voiced at a hearing...
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