Astute readers of my blog will notice that I’ve missed a couple of posts on the schedule recently. This was due to family responsibilities. I’m not going to go into details publicly, but suffice it to say that this year our family Thanksgiving holiday schedule includes an entry titled “internment of the ashes.”
It’s my hope to be able resume a normal posting schedule after this holiday weekend, because there’s certainly a lot going on in the world that I want to unpack including the Canadian federal election; the far-right’s continued attack on activists (including the closure of Soufi’s restaurant following a campaign of cowardly threats by white supremacists and hate groups); the threats against HCCI by the same hate groups and apparently by an official representative of the PPC; the latest news on the continuing fallout from the Pride attack by (you guessed it) those same hate groups; antisemitic graffiti left at a synagogue and the harassment and intimidation of Muslims in their mosque in Hamilton; the community reaction to the horrifying murder of a bullied teenager in Hamilton; the attack in Halle by yet another far-right shooter; and of course the betrayal of the Kurds and the opening stages of a feared genocide in Rojava.
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It’s been a bad week.