Cathie from Canada

"Do not go gentle into that good night. Blog, blog against the dying of the light"

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Today's news: Just a few items tonight

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  Photo from this tweet . I wasn't feeling very well today -- I did my first rapid test, luckily negative (though then I read this , so ...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Today's News: Doing whatever we can to help Ukraine

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A Paris painting by street artist Seth  (photo by Chesnot). It struck me today just how many people around the world are doing whatever we c...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

Today's News: "An opportunity to forgive"

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I just saw this great photo from Brandi Morin's great piece last week in the Toronto Star,  showing Dr. Wilton Littlechild celebrating i...
Saturday, April 09, 2022

Today's News: Odds and ends

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Tonight's photo: the children's play area at Warsaw's Museum of Modern Art. The Museum  has transformed itself to aid Ukrainian...
Friday, April 08, 2022

Today's News: "Ukraine is fighting our fight, for democracy"

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A fascinating "history" of the Russia Ukraine War: A day by day timelapse of the approximate situation of the war in Ukraine so fa...
Thursday, April 07, 2022

Today's News: Maybe a gamechanger

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The Switchblade drones now on their way to the Ukraine Army will likely be gamechangers for the Ukrainian defense. And offense. U.S. Drones...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022

Today's News: Preparing for the next battle

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In some photos from Vice, I was particularly struck by this one, where a religious icon has been set up next to a Molotov cocktail, at a c...
Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Today's News: "galloping riderless across the landscape"

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My title tonight comes from this interview between The Atlantic's Tom Nichols and Russia expert Thane Gustafson, talking about the unpr...
Monday, April 04, 2022

Today's News: Good news, of a sort

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Russia has now withdrawn from Kyiv and northern Ukraine. Yes, that's the good news today.  But now the fear is that Russia will be sendi...
Sunday, April 03, 2022

Today's News: slaughter of the innocents

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This NYT photo shows some of the Ukrainian Odin Unit, including foreign volunteers, in Irpin on Tuesday.(Credit Daniel Berehulak) There are ...
Saturday, April 02, 2022

Today's News: "A new day is dawning"

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After the world bore witness to the unmarked graves of Indigenous children in the thousands last year & ongoing searches, the time has ...
Friday, April 01, 2022

Today's News: Walking Together

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Tonight, I decided to start with this outstanding photo from Alessandra Tarantino, AP, as the visit to the Vatican of Canadian First Nations...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

Today's News: "I am ready to fight"

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Photo: Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times A stray dog accompanied Ukrainian soldiers in Irpin This map shows Ukraine counteratta...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Today's News: Strange days indeed

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Does anyone remember how, before the US invaded Iraq in 2003, there was a bizarre collection of odd con men characters hanging around the Bu...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Today's News: Ukraine headlines decline but Ukraine war does not

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The Ukraine flag still flies. As the war enters its second month, and neither Russia nor Ukraine appear to be able to hit decisive blows jus...
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