The ceasefire is holding. The kids are playing again on the beach where four of their friends were killed while playing soccer, by shells from an Israeli gunboat.
But thousands of Palestinian children have been wounded...
The situation in the hospitals is so desperate they can't treat them in Gaza.
“Palestinian health authorities are planning to refer more patients to hospitals outside of Gaza to access life-saving treatment as well as to reduce the case load in the hospitals to a more manageable level.
And I still want to know why the Harper regime is STILL preventing 100 wounded Palestinian kids from being treated in Canada.
I think it's safe to say that Statistics Canada's last job report was not well received in Stephen Harper's PMO.
Because when you can only create 200 jobs in the whole of Canada in July, it is the Con Gotterdammerung. And the end of the myth of Great Economist Leader.
So I'm not surprised to see that the PMO wants us to know that Statistics Canada will soon be changing that disastrous report.
He has been keeping a low profile. Apart from a steady barrage of short statements on the Ukraine crisis he isn't saying much about anything else.
Let alone this devastating poll.
Far from the apparent ascendance of the Conservatives as the new natural governing party, their reign appears to be closing and the recent surprising (not to us we note ) election of majority Liberal governments in Canada’s two largest provinces, may well be a harbinger of the end of the period of conservative political dominance in Canada.
But as Chantal Hébert points out he will not long be able to ignore its implications, for it suggests that the Con regime has a real leadership problem.
He was such a funny man, he made so many people laugh.
Which only made his sad death even more shocking.
Robin Williams, the versatile actor whose madcap comic style made him one of television and film's biggest stars, was found dead on Monday from an apparent suicide at his home in Northern California. He was 63.
But as the Star's Peter Howell points out, he was a clown with a dark side.
On a warm Sunday afternoon, in the leafy lanes of Ward's Island, with the last flowers of the summer in full bloom, it should have been possible to forget about the horror of Gaza.
At least for a few hours. Especially now that another shaky truce has been announced.
But in this Gaza summer, how can I forget nightmare images like this one?
Or these?
So many children killed. Slaughtered like lambs.
So many wounded and traumatized.
I never understood how the U.S. State Department could conclude that building the Keystone XL pipeline would not substantially increase carbon emissions.
It didn't make sense.
And sure enough it turns out somebody didn't know how to count.
Because now it seems the pipeline's impact could be FOUR times higher than estimated.
Well I'm finally back home in Toronto, after spending two weeks in Scotland, and a few days in Montreal.
And although I'll miss the excitement of the Scottish referendum campaign, and the uplifting spirit of the Commonwealth Games.
I brought Clyde, the thistle-headed games mascot home with me, and hopefully a haversack of hope with me as well.
Because goodness knows this Harperland needs it eh?
He likes to pose as Israel's best friend. Or as Benjamin Netanyahu's best buddy.
And would have us believe that supporting the right-wing Netanyahu regime is the best way to support Israel.
When it is not, for as Tony Burman points out, Harper's buddy Benny may be the only winner of the savage War on Gaza.
Congratulations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mission accomplished — at least on your terms.
Your government’s war on Gaza has resulted in more than 1,800 Palestinian deaths, most of them civilian, including nearly 400 children. But as the latest ceasefire began Tuesday, only three Israeli civilians had been killed and your approval rating among fellow Israelis stood at an overwhelming 77 per cent.
But he's no real friend of Israel either...
The Blogging Tories isn't the Con aggregator it once was. It has fallen a long way since the days it once dominated the Canadian political blogosphere.
With only five posts in the last 24 hours by early this afternoon, compared to thirty-three for Progressive Bloggers.
And it remains the home of the kook, the crank, the anti-Muslim bigot, and the climate change denier.
But you know things are changing when one of them has dared take aim at Stephen Harper and his ghastly Cons.
The other day I told you about a tiny candle of decency in the darkness that is Gaza.
Ontario's plan to bring wounded children to be treated in the province's hospitals.
The Ontario government is willing to provide medical care to 100 injured children from Gaza, it said Tuesday – several days after a Palestinian-Canadian doctor made a public plea to bring kids to Canada for treatment.
And I said that was MY Canada.
But sadly my Canada isn't Harperland, and the Cons are no better than beasts.
