No one likes talking about the corruption in OUR system, yet it is present and it is a festering problem that threatens the social fabric we all depend on. “Elections boil down to conflicts within the business community.” ( T. Ferguson) When you add together the Reagan deregulations, the
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Scripturient: An Exercise in Hypocrisy
A story in CollingwoodToday is titled, Collingwood residents asked to add to council code of conduct. It suggests the town (aka council) is looking for public input into the always-changing, always-ignored Code of Conduct. Yes, I know what you’re thinking when you read that story’s headline. Stop laughing. As if
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Adam Hunter points out the stark gap between public health officials emphasizing the need for protections against community transmission of COVID-19, and Scott Moe’s stubborn refusal to apply them. Alexander Quon writes about the hundreds of Saskatchewan patients missing out on surgeries every
Continue readingScripturient: Meng and the SVJI: Parallel Cases?
The ongoing case against Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou has an odd parallel in Collingwood. Our own petty, revenge-obsessed council’s threats to sue people who caused no harm nor have ever been charged with a crime has an echo in a comment made during Meng’s recent extradition hearings. Associate Chief Justice Heather
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CBC News reports on the research which is just starting to systematically identify and treat the worrisome symptoms of long COVID. Gabriel Scally weighs in on the dangers of the UK’s choice to end any public health response to COVID-19 even as the
Continue readingScripturient: Why Are Council’s Conflicts of Interest Being Ignored?
While local media focuses on our revenge-obsessed council’s myopic intent to punish people who committed no crimes, merely thwarted their Great Leader’s personal ambitions in 2012, they blithely overlook the bigger issue at the council table: conflicts of interest. Avoiding even the appearance of conflict is at the core of
Continue readingScripturient: The Corrupt PC Nomination Process
This week, Stella Ambler, a former candidate for the nomination for the PC party in Simcoe Grey, sent an email that expressed her disappointment over the party’s authoritarian actions: On Monday, Patrick Harris (4th Vice-President, PC Party of Ontario & Chair of the Provincial Nomination Committee for Simcoe-Grey) sent an
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Assault On The Olfactory Cells
To paraphrase a character from the play Hamlet, something is rotten in the state of Ontario. And one needn’t be a master detective to trace its source. Indeed, it is perhaps to state the obvious to conclude that Doug Ford is in the thrall of, and debt to, the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk calls for us to learn from over a year’s worth of experience with COVID-19 and guard against aerosol spread to limit the development and transmission of variants. And Ian Sample reports on new findings showing that children are at risk
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: 48 Hrs In Alberta Politics
The last couple of days in Alberta have been interesting … not good, but interesting. It all starts with a bunch of rural UCP MLAs putting out a joint letter complaining loudly about the return to a much stricter set of restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19. In
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: … and Kenney Called The NDP "Ideological"
So, today the Kenney government took the wraps off its proposed K-6 school curriculum: https://curriculum.learnalberta.ca/curriculum/en *I can’t guarantee how long this link will be viable, so screenshots will be used to illustrate points. Kenney bitched and moaned at every turn about the curriculum revision that the NDP was working on.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Matt Karp writes about the connection between heavily polarized politics, and the concentration of wealth in the hands of people whose interests are served by voters rooting for laundry rather than holding meaningful input into policy choices. – May Warren reports on the
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: How corrupt is Canada?
How corrupt is our country? Not very. But we can do better. According to Transparency International’s (TI) 2020 report, we are in eleventh place on their Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). Denmark and New Zealand tie for number one; the United States is 25th. We rank best in the Americas at
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Covid Journal, January 15, 2021
Ford brings in a lockdown, treating us like prisoners, not providing enough direction for us to know if we’ll be punished for simply … living. Selfish snowbirds: what to do? A taser death.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Paula Ethans points out how anti-maskers and other COVID cranks have cynically drawn on the language of progressive protest movements to exacerbate the dangers of a deadly pandemic. And Umair Haque argues that the upcoming U.S. election may determine whether or not the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Macdonald discusses the opportunity to transition from the temporary CERB to a permanently-improved income support system for Canadians – along with the danger that people relying on modest relief now will be left to drown if the old EI rules are
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: This is a big weekend for Ontario Liberals
Delegate selection. How will they choose? I didn’t see this until a reporter drew this to my attention. It will affect the way some choose. Ontario Liberals can’t afford @StevenDelDuca. RT and add your name if you agree we must do better: https://t.co/7SrGyaSVVZ pic.twitter.com/X3GY7uQmMl — Anybody But Del Duca (@StopDelDuca)
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The system works
It does. This is a massive fine. This is a guilty plea to a serious crime. This is justice. If only they had listened to Jody Wilson-Raybould, they’d still have the Clerk of the Privy Council. They’d still have the Principal Secretary. They’d still have a majority. All of that
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: When something becomes A Thing
And the NATO “hot microphone” thing has indeed turned into A Thing. My regular readers didn’t care what I had to say about it, either: Conservative followers and friends were incensed. Still smarting from the election result, they pounced on Justin Trudeau’s unguarded remarks. It was shocking, they claimed, that
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: There’s a statement on Daisy Group’s web site
It’s here and embedded in the screenshot below.
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