It’s perplexing for disabled people and advocates that while so many media headlines point to the extreme financial struggles of people with disabilities in our inflationary economy, the powers that be continue debating details.

Grocery theft has always been a major problem, but with food inflation as it is, shopkeepers now fear the wrongdoers more than before.

A coalition of mostly Indigenous organizations, families and survivors of violence has issued a statement to denounce the so-called freedom convoy for its “blatant use of Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit kin to further their own misguided and propagandic agenda.”

Hopefully, 2023 will turn out to be relatively boring compared to the last few years. But there will be at least one source of excitement in the coming year: the upcoming provincial election here in Manitoba, scheduled for Oct. 3.

It’s still unseasonably warm in Ukraine, but there’s a chance of a hard freeze this weekend. By mid-month it should be reliably quite cold almost all the time: the ground will be hard and the smaller streams will have frozen over.

With a new year starting, we hear announcements about bonuses in food retailing.

For whatever reason, Cuba never seems to be far from the political radar screen of both the U.S. and Canada. In mid-November, representatives of Democratic Spaces, a Canadian-Cuban human rights organization, called for Ottawa to impose punitive sanctions on members of the Cuban government.

They don’t make technology predictions like they used to. Just look at the amazingly prescient technological wish list famed chemist Robert Boyle jotted down in a note found after his death in 1691:

A photograph recently circulated on social media purportedly showing two Chinese professors in Shanghai standing between a squad of police officers and students protesting the government’s zero-COVID policies.