Fascinating stuff from the Edmonton Journal: “Premier Jason Kenney did not condemn weekend anti-mask rallies on Monday, saying the right to protest is constitutionally protected. Saturday anti-mask protests in both Edmonton and Calgary drew crowds of hundreds after new provincial rules were introduced last week that ban private
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Dead Wild Roses: The Alberta Covid Situation – The Refrigerator Trucks are Next.
Did you need a comprehensive plan on how to overwhelm the heath care system? Burn out the doctors and Nurses? Just take the Jason Kenny’s Alberta Personal Responsibility Plan to heart. Our ideologically blinded Premier has condemned Alberta to a this entirely avoidable health care meltdown. Most certainly
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Anti-Mask Protests in Calgary:Tomfoolery at its Finest
Some of the people in Calgary, Alberta feel that their fundamental rights and freedoms are being taken away from them. (Excerpts from cbc.ca) “Hundreds marched through downtown Calgary on Saturday to protest against mandated masks and other public health measures intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the same day
Continue readingThings Are Good: This Indigenous-Owned Solar Installation Near the Tar Sands Shows the Future
The province of Alberta is likely best known internationally for its world-destroying tar sands, but in the province there’s a push by citizens to create a sustainable economy. On the north end of the tar sands exists a new solar installation owned by local indigenous groups. The installation functions first
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dan Zakreski reports on Shannon Grant Tompkins’ effort to share the stories of the people suffering from the spread of COVID-19. And David Climenhaga writes that poor government is leading to avoidable sickness and death as Alberta (like Saskatchewan and other provinces) apparently
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Kenney channels Notley
During the NDP’s brief sojourn as government of Alberta, it pursued a policy oft-referred to as “social license.” The idea was that if the province was to get investment in tar sands and pipelines, it would have to show sound environmental stewardship. This was undoubtedly part of the reason for
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: It would never win a ‘QCJO.’
Let’s face facts, you rush things and you screw up. Mind you, I also found it funny. It makes you wonder just how many Alberta voters made the same mistake. Did you think it was Alberta’s Jason Kenny(stet) who had become a husband and father? It is unlikely that we
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The Temptation to be Tory.
It appears that the leopard is still unable to change his spots. At least conservatives such as Ontario’s Doug Ford and Alberta’s Jason Kenney fail to stray long from their expected courses. Mean buggers, both of them. They are conservative to the core. Take Jason Kenney. Since college in San
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR: Under Renovations – low activity temporary.
Greetings folks, Insulation upgrades at homebase have thrown my routines and house into chaos. Rest assured, I will be getting things sorted as soon as possible so DWR can get back on track. Thanks, The Arbourist
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Social assistance: Do higher benefit levels lead to higher caseloads?
As part of my PhD thesis, I did some statistical analysis in which I asked the question: “Do higher social assistance benefit levels lead to higher caseloads?” I have recently updated the data and had it published in a journal. Here’s a short summary of the journal article’s main findings.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Alisha Haridasani Gupta discusses why so many women have been excluded from the workforce during the course of the coronavirus pandemic. And Kathryn Marshall comments on the epidemic of violence against women – as well as the need to intervene before abuse reaches
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Matt Gurney laments Ontario’s utter failure to use months of lead time and information from around the world to make any meaningful preparations for a foreseeable fall wave of the coronavirus, while Bruce Arthur notes that Doug Ford is too busy denying the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Kenney Stands Up For Doomed Oil
Nowhere in Canada is more cursed than Alberta. It’s the Resource Curse. And Jason Kenney is the leader of the cursed. At the empty Tesla charging station in Fort Macleod. Apparently Albertans aren't heeding NDP lectures to "change their behaviour." pic.twitter.com/euc7vGk2ZH — Jason Kenney (@jkenney) January 4, 2017 Some people
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Substitute Teaching During a Pandemic – Anxiety Double Plus
Is a sub gig worth the health of your family? That main question that has been going through my head as of late, since school has started. I’ve been very lucky to be able to attend schools I know that also happen to have very stringent health protocols. But
Continue reading52 Ideas: On Sir John A. MacDonald, Conservatives, Vergangenheitsbewältigung and Working Through Canadian History: the Approach Conservatives should take to Canada’s past
I believe that History matters. History matters because it teaches us how to be better. History provides us with the very best and worst lessons of what people are capable of. Just look at Nelson Mandela. He was one of many people who brought an end to Apartheid in South
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: It’s not about Alberta, Mr. Kenney.
It is a shame that the voters in Alberta have not told Jason Kenney the hard truth. He has to understand that he took responsibility for Alberta’s economic problems when he became premier. If he is unable to solve those economic problems, then the people of Alberta should find someone
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Alberta RCMP Protecting Racists
#ACAB Mounties saying they're protecting hate speech and violent racists because those voices matter as much as anyone else. That's a load of BS. https://t.co/WzsTMKYaGj — Saskboy says #BlackLivesMatter (@saskboy) September 23, 2020 Stop violent racists from being violent, and when they are, arrest them. It's not rocket science, it's
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Where is the best whisky made? Alberta, of course
Alberta is the land of oil and gas, right? And of cowboys and rodeos. And mountains and skiing. No surprises there. But here’s a surprise. It’s also the land of the world’s greatest whisky. Or so says Jim Murray, he of the Whisky Bible. And Jim must be taken seriously.
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: UCP or NDP? Depends on your age … and gender
Some surprising results in an Angus Reid survey of Albertans this week. The UCP and the NDP are tied in voter support, each at 38 percent. This is quite a collapse for the UCP who won the election, only a year and a half ago, with 55 percent support. But
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Alberta and the plastics promise
In the 1967 film “The Graduate,” young Benjamin Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman), fresh out of college, is taken aside by a middle-aged neighbour at a cocktail party and offered some advice about his future. The neighbour has one word of advice for him, just one word—“plastics.” It was good
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