Once again , PEF will be at the Canadian Economics Association (CEA) annual conference! We now have the official schedule for the 2022 CEA meetings to be held at Carleton University, Ottawa. The conference will be on-line Tuesday, May 31 and in-person Friday, June 3 and Saturday, June 4. Please
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: BoJo Caught Lying To Parliament, Again
https://t.co/s05SEJNIvH — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) May 23, 2022 This is not Boris Johnson’s first rodeo. His party excused him before, will they again protect him and MET police too? Do ducks love water? https://saskboy.wordpress.com/2022/04/20/plague-update-bojos-contempt-for-parliament/
Continue readingIn This Corner: Time to get rid of Victoria Day (the name, not the holiday)
Happy Victoria Day weekend, dear readers. In honour of this great public holiday, I propose that we make it the last Victoria Day ever. Now, don’t panic. I am not proposing that we give up one of our precious long weekends. But in recognition of the inclusive, diverse and equitable
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Housing: We Have ENOUGH SUPPLY
Everyone is talking about housing affordability in Canada and Ontario politicians are promising to plow over the best farm land in Ontario. The only ones who will benefit are developers. The post Housing: We Have ENOUGH SUPPLY first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: W Gaffes Again
The Republican Party didn’t become disgusting when Trump came to power, it’s been terrible for over 20 years. How can you tell? W Bush just confessed to knowing the Iraq War was wrong, during one of his infamous public speaking gaffes. Obama’s Democrats letting him skate away from responsibility for
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Doug Ford Broke Quarantine Law
Liberals might be happy to learn that OPC leader Doug Ford has been privately prosecuted with breaking federal quarantine law. Trial is pending. They may be less excited to learn that Justin Trudeau should face similar prosecution for breaking the same law in the same manner. Another who should be
Continue readingExcited Delirium: This’ll Make Wexiteers Lose Their Minds!
Three words that I’m sure Wexiteers will cringe at: mandatory heat pumps. The post This’ll Make Wexiteers Lose Their Minds! first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: What Does COVID Do Anyway?
COVID-19 a thrombotic disease that can be caught again, and again, and again if the first bouts are survived, and isn’t confined to a “season” because it’s so much more contagious than influenza. It has multiple waves that sweep through a community each year. Governments are using ‘magical words’ to
Continue readingIn This Corner: Hey, photogs. Pick your best pix and print them, pronto
Before the advent of cellphones and their cameras, taking pictures was an entirely different experience. Today, everyone over the age of eight has a professional quality camera (disguised as a cellphone) in their pocket. But there was a time when there would often be just one person with a camera
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: David Milgaard Dies
A man who helped define the Canadian justice system as deeply flawed, has died at age 69. David was sent to jail for a murder that he didn’t commit. The real killer later went to jail for other killings, and was proven the killer with the advancement of DNA evidence
Continue readingIn This Corner: Read ‘Ten Lost Years’ (if you can find it) and stop your belly-aching
It’s safe to say that these are not the best of times. For two years, we have been stalked by an invisible, shape-shifting enemy who has sickened and killed millions, bringing everyday life to a standstill. In Europe, a peaceful, fragile democracy has come under attack by a nuclear superpower
Continue readingExcited Delirium: For All the Mothers … Who Didn’t Want to be Mothers
On Mother’s Day, I think we all need pause to celebrate those brave who choose to NOT be mothers. Their choices belong to them and not the public. The post For All the Mothers … Who Didn’t Want to be Mothers first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Perhaps the party of Lincoln isn’t dead yet
The Republicans backing Trump again would be the definition of insanity. Who said that, you ask. A Democrat perhaps? Or a journalist? An academic? No, as hard to believe as it may be, the speaker was a prominent member of the Republican Party. He is, in fact, Larry Hogan, Governor
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Drugs and Tests
Are the Rapid A Tests much good for making social plans? Not definitively. Cases are going undetected by tests in many cases, giving false negatives that result in infectious people feeling confident to mingle with uninfected people. The leading anti-viral drug, Paxlovid, is being tested for use to fight symptoms
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: BESS Battery project at Regina by SaskPower
Back in February I asked SaskPower how this project was going. Our Progress So Far In Fall of 2020, we engaged with neighbouring communities to discuss the proposed BESS plans. We’re now moving to the next phase of the project including project design and procurement. Other milestones include: Infrastructure Canada
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: Elon Musk gets the political spectrum so wrong, but so right
Well, it seems like Elon Musk is set to become our new Twitter overlord. This is a terrible idea, for many reasons which will probably be the subject of my next post. He seems to have become the new hope for the online Right. The one who will restore balance
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: Ottawa Police refer to anti-vax protestors as “freedom supporters”
In what can only be described as positive public relations spin – or just propaganda in this case – the Ontario Police’s official Twitter account referred to anti-vaccine, pro-disease protestors as “Freedom Supporters.” I’m sorry what? Anti-vaccine protestors have shown themselves to be the least supportive of freedom. This shouldn’t
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: A new direction for Northern Currents
Northern Currents has changed quite a bit since I started it two years ago. I have 60 posts published and have built a small following via social media and the newsletter. I have decided to simplify things a little. You can see the new layout is much more simple and
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: You Won’t Be Able To Read This When You Want To
This is one of those things about our planet that people would want to look up on the Internet, but won’t be able to if it happens.
Continue readingIn This Corner: Wanna bet? It’s gone from underground to mainstream
When I was just a wee lad, I remember my dad occasionally buying a ticket for something called the Irish Sweepstakes. The ‘Sweeps’, as it was popularly called, was a fundraising effort for Irish hospitals, first established in the 1930s. The top prize was an otherworldly (for the time) $140,000.
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