Edwin Current: If You Feed Them, They’ll Never Leave
Happy Thanksgiving Canada! Since the election in Ontario is over, I’ve been paying some attention to the Occupy movements around the world. I’m not sure what my take on it is yet but I do know that...
View Article350 or bust: The Night is Dark, and We are Far From Home
On this Remembrance Day, here’s the choir of Wells Cathedral singing Lead Kindly Light: Lead, kindly Light, amid th’encircling gloom, lead thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home; lead...
View ArticleIt’s now unAmerican to eat Thanksgiving turkey
This turkey wants to kill your mama Why? Because Butterball turkeys are the victim of ‘Islamic slaughter’. Well not actually, it’s just that when one of Pam Geller’s readers wrote Butterball asking if...
View ArticleThe Skwib: Ask General Kang: Do you celebrate Thanksgiving on your home world?
No, we have several holidays that are somewhat similar, but essentially we break your celebration into two components. And then we have one “thanksgiving” day which is totally alien to your world. In...
View Articlemark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Professor Quippy:...
The dreaded velociraptor is looking less and less like a Spielbergian nightmare, and more like something you could safely serve with cranberries. New research into the fossilized forearm discovered in...
View Article350 or bust: 28 Hours Without Hydro: Thoughts On Thanks And Tainted Meat
Here in Canada it’s Thanksgiving Monday, when we Canucks consume turkey (or tofurkey, depending on preference), mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie a month earlier than our southern neighbours, although...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: A Thanksgiving Gift from Baseball
Pat Neshek of the Oakland Athletics looks to the sky as he touches the patch with the letters “GJN” on it after he recorded the final out of the bottom of the seventh inning against the Detroit Tigers...
View ArticleLeDaro: Religious Rituals: Killing of chickens and turkeys
An ultra-Orthodox man performs a Jewish ritual called Kaparot in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on Sept. 10. In the ancient custom of Kaparot, still performed by some Jews today, a white...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Thanksgiving in Harperland:The Sorrow and the Hope
It still takes my breath away. This country so big and so beautiful. And on this Thanksgiving Day, even in Harperland, I have so many reasons to be thankful.A roof over my head and enough food to eat....
View Articleknitnut.net: Doubting Thomas
The other morning as I was waking up, someone on CBC was talking about a project called ShareThanksgiving.ca. Basically, it’s an online matching service, in which host families in Canada are matched...
View Articlemark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: The Lost Power...
Chief Massasoit presents items NOT supplied for the first Thanksgiving, circa 1621 (only slide) deep-fried turkey cranberry sauce potatoes, white or sweet pie of any kind (there were pumpkins, though)....
View ArticleSusan on the Soapbox: Turkey Day at the Soapbox House
“There’s no such thing as too much turkey”.— Mr Soapbox Mr Soapbox is a peculiar man. He’s a wonderful cook who rises to any occasion but when it come to Thanksgiving (or Christmas for that matter) he...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Happy Thanksgiving! Would the Tories praising our health care...
Edmonton’s Misericordia Hospital waaay back in the day. Below: The modern Mis, the one in Edmonton’s west end that after 45 years is falling apart. Alberta Health Minister Stephen Mandel. Happy...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: David Suzuki: The ecological and economic costs of...
This Thanksgiving season, David Suzuki wants us to remember this fact: ” In Canada, food waste cost estimates increased from $27 billion to $31 billion between 2010 and 2014.”The post David Suzuki: The...
View ArticleWritings of J. Todd Ring: Holidays and holy days – and the dross and drivel...
Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter…Yom Kippur, Hunakkah, Passover… Ramadan: these symbolic expressions of union, communion, gratitude, faith and love – what do they matter? Except that they do. As a...
View Articlemark a rayner: Happy Yanksgiving!
Alltop prefers roast opossum. Original photo by Doug Brown via Flickr. . . . → Read More: mark a rayner: Happy Yanksgiving!
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Important News From Turkey!
I just googled it and turkeys don't actually come from Turkey. So no matter what happens, the 1st World should be OK for thanksgiving.— Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) July 15, 2016 . . . → Read More:...
View ArticleEdwin Current: If You Feed Them, They’ll Never Leave
Happy Thanksgiving Canada!Since the election in Ontario is over, I've been paying some attention to the Occupy movements around the world. I'm not sure what my take on it is yet but I do know that the...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Important News From Turkey!
I just googled it and turkeys don't actually come from Turkey. So no matter what happens, the 1st World should be OK for thanksgiving.— Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) July 15, 2016 . . . → Read More:...
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