The history of Canadian settler colonialism and public health demonstrates how both overt white-supremacist claims and seemingly more inert nationalistic claims about “unity” and “freedom” both enable and erase ongoing harm to marginalized communities.

The power to ignore is still the greatest power major media has, and few issues demonstrate that more than the trouble at our southern border.

I can only imagine how isolating and lonely it must feel, in the awkwardness of your adolescent years, to have a governor declare your sexual identity so abnormal it can’t be discussed in school — just when you may need to talk about it the most. If there’s some teacher you trust, he or she would now be breaking the law if you confide in them.

Fabulous jobs numbers, a fading pandemic and a president doing his job with quiet competence should embolden Democrats to drop their funk and campaign furiously for the midterms. Ignore President Joe Biden’s weak poll numbers. The good news should eventually wash over the gloom.

Maine says it wants better relationships with its Wabanaki neighbors. For that to happen, the state needs to recognize that Wabanakis have rights parallel to those of all other Native American peoples in the U.S.

Democrats at the federal level aren’t demonstrating much ability to govern. The burden weighs heavily because Republicans have proved to be the “anti-government” party. So, Dems must deliver, and so far they haven’t brought home much bacon.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should give in to the truckers on the vaccination mandate, and then the protestors should declare victory and go home or, at the minimum, take a step back from any confrontation with the police.

We may not “defeat” the virus anytime soon, but the vaccinated majority can feel they’ve “contained” it. For them, the pandemic may be over. For the others, maybe not.

(Republicans) accused the Jan. 6th Select Committee — the one Democrats in the House impaneled after Republicans refused to support a full congressional probe – of “the persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” Mind you, that “legitimate political discourse” gouged eyes and broke bones, erected a gallows and paraded a traitor’s flag through the people’s house.

Few wish to stand for what is right in contemporary society because they fear condemnation from people and “groups” that will tag them with negative labels. If we don’t like the direction in which we are headed, it is time to yell “stop,” then turn around and take a different road. The one we are now on will lead to our destruction.