Charlotte Prong

A tall man with a thick grey beard and glasses is standing in a boat and holding a massive pike. He’s got a big smile and he’s wearing his favourite T-shirt, which says “The Good Life” on it. His name is Matthew Parkhill and he was a wonderful person.

Matthew Parkhill, my beloved husband, and father of Maggie and Bronwyn
1957-2025

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I’ll say more later but on this Thanksgiving weekend, I’m so grateful he was ours.

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George Springer
Mike Nguyen
2024

New Hilary Mantel prize to help emerging writers The prize for emerging writers is being set up to honour the memory of the Devon-based author.

This is nice: The fiction prize is for unpublished and unagented writers in the UK and Ireland.

Why am I watching an empty stadium and Dan Plesac spit out his gum? The Apple TV MLB games have terrible production quality, and it’s not just because they’re filmed on an iPhone.

Apple TV baseball. First time watching. WTAF?

This only happens to you once

GOOD ✊🏻

The Canadian Justice system loses $20 billion year.

The Canadian military loses $34 billion a year.

Canadian Health Care loses $372 billion a year.

Imagine if Carneys liberals talked about services like it does the Post Office.

View of from the 4th row, just to the right of home plate, as Boston crushes the Jays 7-1

We splurged for once-in-a-lifetime TD Lounge seats at the Jays game last night and it was amazing

BREAKING 🚨 The University of Waterloo will not renew its partnership with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, following a referendum in 2024 in which 83.9% of participating undergraduates voted in favor of ending the collaboration.

These are difficult times. Here are encouraging words from difficult people If you're not going to stand up for others, at least stand back so others can.

A new post in my newsletter: Some encouraging words from difficult people:

suzannerent.substack.com/p/these-are-...

I am a Jays fan but this thread is a hell of a ride

If this passes, I will order 100 "Palestine Action" T-shirts and hand them out to whoever will wear them.

I know they *say* they won't outlaw that, but that's absolutely where this is going.

Hey Canadians, take some of your Jimmy Kimmel attention and give it to free speech limitations here at home; among other things this new bill could limit what you can say about Zionists/Israel and where you can say it.

A very good piece, made even better by the link to your earlier review of The Paper Garden, which I am coincidentally reading right now.

I know two people who ordered spells from one of the Jezebel Etsy witches. I’ll update you if they work

I caught a bit of American TV news while my husband was watching today and it’s obvious those “journalists” and the companies they work for are pants-shittingly scared of Trump and his flunkies

I’m beginning to think if some of you had a time machine you’d go back and give baby Hitler a gentle kiss on the forehead

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

You’re right, it’s confusing for lower-skill drivers, and all streets should be 30. But if you want consistency, keeping school zone speed units the same at all times (students present or not) is consistency.

September Committee Meetings get underway tomorrow morning. Here are a few highlights that will have an impact here in Kitchener and across the Region ⬇️

Sending the sex stuff to kids in Gr. 7/8 is WILD

Ipperwash
Robert Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2000-01

“Who goes Nazi” by Dorothy Thompson:
“the frustrated and humiliated intellectual”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Goe...

Carney is offering Canadians nothing but austerity and cozying up to fascists. He’s Poilievre in a better suit.

Broken record territory rapidly approaching, but once again: Homelessness is not a societal inevitability. It's a policy failure.

This is a solvable issue with a known solution, even under capitalism, because that solution is less expensive than the current responses.

We just don't want to do it.

Evicted is one of my favourite non-fiction books and one that I think should be read by all policy makers.

I thought the ending was a bit tidy and commercial compared to the rest of the book. Almost felt like a YA kind of ending to me. But I liked the prose style.