Cathie from Canada

One of the great things about being retired is that I can stay up til 3 am watching the Australian Open , on TV or just tracking scores on m...

Our one-word resolution this year: Clean. We have had a difficult fall and winter due to dealing with the illness and long term care of a r...

Three Dog Night - Joy To The World - Live - YouTube :

Tom and Lorenzo review the world's dumbest Christmas movie: Musical Monday: White Christmas  , with the worst costumes ever worn on a fa...

Joe Cocker, RIP --  dead at 70 due to lung cancer.

Canada's newest Harper-picked Supreme Court Justice may well turn out to be another Mike Duffy or Pam Wallin in the making. In this Tor...

Just a little bloggy roundup of some really bad gift ideas from here and there on the web. First, a jolly old elf, from Mock Paper Scissors...

Shorter  US torture report : Bush and Cheney corrupted the soul of the United States when they adopted torture as a state policy -- and in ...

Ann Telnaes writes White Americans don’t understand the racial profiling black Americans deal with on a daily basis. The New York Times...

Two long reads from Gawker, of all places, on racism and police: Why Should Anyone "Respect" the Law? : How can you ask people ...

The Harper Cons are trying to put lipstick on a pig: An aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper has taken over as chief of staff to embattled...

Tabitha Southey has a brilliant column in the Globe and Mail   Hey, white person, imagine if you were stopped as though you were black : ...

The failure to indict Darren Wilson is a travesty .  By Langston Hughes: Ferguson: Chicago: Seattle: New York: Los Angele...

So it has been revealed that Veterans Affairs had $1.1 billion dollars in unused funding over seven years. Now Veterans Affairs minister Ju...

Decision day in Ferguson will be Monday at the earliest | Toronto Star : “We’re living under a governor’s declared State of Emergency, we’r...