Merry Christmas! Today is day five of our week-long Christmas series delving into the history, complexity, and evolution of one of the most important holidays in Western civilization.

Today is day four of our week-long Christmas series delving into the history, complexity, and evolution of one of the most important holidays in Western civilization. It is Christmas Eve, a most sombre and important night in Christianity as it is the night before Christ the Saviour's birth.

Today is day three of our week-long Christmas series delving into the history, complexity, and evolution of one of the most important holidays in Western civilization. It wouldn't be Christmas in the West without the fake notion of a "War on Christmas" rooted in historical ignorance. Granted, I take personal issue with people who complain about nativity scenes, but a "war on Christmas" that does not make.

Today is day two of our week-long Christmas series delving into the history, complexity, and evolution of one of the most important holidays in Western civilization. Though Pagan holidays, Saturnalia and Yule have had massive influences on contemporary Christmas celebrations and aesthetics, despite being very ancient European traditions.

Today is the start of our week-long Christmas series delving into the history, complexity, and evolution of one of the most important holidays in Western civilization. Though the winter solstice has lost cultural and spiritual significance to most humans, it's important to remember the incredible role it's played in our collective history and the influence it's had on various cultures and religions.

You know you're in hell when politicians and people who can afford to stay home are getting a COVID-19 vaccine before the frontline workers who have allowed society to continue...

Every so often and every year, conservatives, nationalists, and fascists will trot out the whole "we need to return to our roots" or some variation thereof as they whinge and complain about the changing of the country. Newsflash, every decade or so this country has changed ever since the first white men landed on its shores. "Traditional Canada" has never been a thing and it's high time we recognize that.

Waffle To The Left: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdhy... 

Aside from some livestream appearances, this will be my first real collaboration with another YouTuber, and their content is way nice and more polished than mine, so please go subscribe to them, and keep an eye out for our videos that will be dropping near the end of this hellish year.

So here in Canada, one of the rights guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is freedom of movement. Unfortunately, real estate prices and speculation are having a negative impact on Canadians from coast to coast which means that there may be potential for making a constitutional argument for accessible freedom of movement...

So Conservative leader Erin O'Toole is in a bit of hot water over statements he made in a Zoom call about Residential Schools and their history in Canada. Even worse, it was in a call about "how to defeat the left on this issue" and yet their big 'winning point' is a falsehood. And if you don't believe me, just use the words of the chief architect of the Residential School system himself...  

Source:  https://pressprogress.ca/erin-otoole-... 

Quote from Sir John A. Macdonald: https://i2.wp.com/expatmominpg.com/wp... 

For added reference, the words and testimony of survivors of Residential Schools:  http://nctr.ca/assets/reports/Final%2...