Sitemap - 2025 - Russell's Lifelong Learning

I am not my body! Understanding genos (Greek) vs homo (Latin)

Stop Residential School Denialism

Casual Conversations - Mike Oppenheim with guest Russell McOrmond

Motherness, Autism, and ARFID

“It’s a Wonderful Life” - is Trump like the Potter character?

United States Thanksgiving, and other stories we tell about “ourselves”

Focus and political influence in humanitarian crises

Coffin Talk #252: - Autism - Russell McOrmond

How's my driving?

A future for Canada? Exploring the non-Anglosphere parts of Orwell's Oceania warning

A future for Canada? What I see as the worst case scenario

No Kings?

Thanksgiving

A future for Canada? A different philosophical, geopolitical, and socio-economic perspective.

Violence against Indigenous people "very clearly" is genocide

Autism and nonviolent communication?

Bad Indians Book Club : Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

Struggles of an undiagnosed Autistic student

I am not a True Scotsman (or “True Canadian”)

Is there "Label Autonomy?"

The Righteous Mind

Tags

Am I retired?

I’m also not an art historian, but I am a systems analyst

I don’t hate "White People" (British/English, French, etc)

Don’t assume I must not be trying because “it’s easy” (for you).

I have points, but not as good a title

Metaviews 70: The Nature of Nature and Human Perceptions of the Natural World

Conflicting moral scrupulosity OCD

Force and control aren’t useful tools toward making things Open (knowledge, source, government, access, etc)

Dominion Day and Canada Day

Thanking my parents

USA, Canada, the false stories we believe are true, and true stories we believe are false

Fast Tracking attempts to violate Canada’s Constitutional, Treaty and UN Human Rights obligations

Navigating conflict in Autistic spaces

Systemic generated loneliness and the Machinery of Misogyny

Metaviews 66: Dialogue as an Antidote to Violence

WTF: What’s The Future? Alternatives to British North American settler-colonialism?

Letter to my Ontario MPP against Bill 16: Freedom from Responsibility

Metaviews 65: No Human Nature: Neurodivergence, Eugenics, and the Future of Politics with Russell McOrmond

If you have met one Autistic person... and discussed Politics

Too male for some, not male enough for others

Q: I don't understand where the hostility towards neurodivergents is coming from

I shouldn’t allow “in sports” to distract me from the gender-binary ideology

Official foreign languages, and a powerful farewell speech from Nunavut

Thoughts from the AFN forum with CPC leader Pierre Poilievre.

AFN Virtual Forum Series with Federal Party Leaders (Election 2025)

Crisis talks: Far fewer than 7 generations, what has value, and the future of British North American settler-colonialism

Identity Politics? 2025 Election priorities? The core problem is political identity silos!

Blogging for IT World Canada (ITWC)

"Woke Liberals"? I wish!

Zionism

Big changes since my 50th birthday

It is not "right wing" to recognize that Canada is broken!

Thinking about life, death, the food chain, and social justice/control/cohesion

I’m back in Ottawa Center. Goodbye Ottawa South and David McGuinty

Two decades of writing letters to The Hill Times editor

Do Canadians want sovereignty, or a better deal?

Canada has always been caught between its parent and an unruly sibling

Why I don't see myself in the NDP

Western Eurocentric language maintaining specific biases

An Association Fallacy, and the need to move past settler-colonial thinking

Observing White Fragility

The life of one Hacker

My current short, medium and long-form online sharing.

Welcome to this new blog

Happy Gregorian New Year 2025