Elizabeth May – How Covid-19 Could Change Us – If We’re Lucky.
Former Green Party leader, Elizabeth May, has penned an op-ed for the National Observer. She concludes that there might be a silver-lining to the pandemic if we’re lucky and we’re…
March 2020
“This is Operation Desert Storm, Enron, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina/Rita, Lehman Bros, combined.”
Energy analysts are struggling to predict where world oil prices could bottom out in the months ahead. Energy consultant Stephen Shorck told Bloomberg, “This is Operation Desert Storm, Enron, 9/11,…
The Real Dangers of Misinformation
As our battle with Covid-19 continues, it’s been alarming to see how some people have been reacting to what’s happening. It’s been alarming mostly because of the number of people…
We Can’t Go Home Again
Robin Sears writes that we are facing a challenging future: Now we see the emergence of heroes and misfits. Beach partygoers versus nurses working 18-hour shifts. Most media are trying…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of March 23, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 16, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Duncan Hunter Sentenced to 11 Months in Prison for Stealing Campaign Funds…
Covid Journal, March 22, 2020 (Capitalism On Its Knees Edition)
It’s Day 9 of self-quarantine for me and the markets are about to open, again in the red. Today’s update is a simple one: questioning where we go from here…
In my humble opinion.
What the hell does a commentator comment on when the world’s news media (in English anyway) are totally committed to telling us, ad nauseum, about the world’s trials with a…
The doctor is out… of the province #nlpoli
Health minister John Haggie announced on Friday that doctors in the province could now start seeing patients remotely either by telephone or using video conferencing. Kinda bizarre, though, given that…
Experience Counts – COVID Economic Balls-Up Edition #nlpoli
On Friday Premier Dwight Ball took a question from reporters about the Liberal leadership that is still underway. In a moment of egotistical boasting, Ball said it “takes experience to…
Episode 51: A new Alberta. Responding to COVID-19 and Oil Crash with Chris Henderson.
Wash your hands, don’t touch your face, stay at home. The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the plummeting price of oil has sent shockwaves through Alberta politics over the…
FBI Warns White Supremacists Want to Weaponize Covid-19 to Attack Jews, Police.
America’s radical rightwing hopes to weaponize the coronavirus. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New York office recently sent out an alert to local authorities warning of extremist groups it said…
The Tip of the Iceberg: Virologist David Ho (BS ’74) Speaks About COVID-19
March 20, 2020 https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/tip-iceberg-virologist-david-ho-bs-74-speaks-about-covid-19?fbclid=IwAR2Z03W7zMlfopxoaq58Vuua68n7txK-S7kO2yClTI4NWsmPkmqJ_auwTe0 As of March 20, more than 8,700 people worldwide had died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Eric Doherty, and Eric Galbraith and Ross Otto, respectively write that the response to the coronavirus shows how it’s possible to imagine…
The Impact of COVID-19 on Democracy
James Madison said tyranny arises “on some favourable emergency”. The COVID-19 pandemic is today’s “favourable emergency.” It’s being used by unscrupulous politicians as a smokescreen for undemocratic behavior in Alberta’s…
Park Board closes parking lots as part of COVID-19 response
March 22 2020 Effective immediately, the Vancouver Park Board is prohibiting parking at its most high-traffic parks and beaches across the city, including: Kitsilano Beach English Bay Queen Elizabeth Park…
What’s Next? Since You Asked. Covid-19 And the Flood Risk.
It was just a few months ago that we were told to prepare to respond to major calamities, two, perhaps three at a time. Covid-19 certainly qualifies as one. We…
Welcome to Panicville. Population: us
Have you heard that Tom Brady has left the New England Patriots for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers? This is HUGE news … at least it is right now. Normally, I…
When the lights go on for the people…
While the world is currently in Chamberlain mode (denial), it may soon go to Vichy/Quisling mode (collaboration & surrender – giving up). Despite his enormous faults, we need people…
In praise of the Saskatchewan CCF… the roots of Medicare
On the March 21 edition of CBC radio's The House Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said, "This is a moment when all Canadians should get down on their knees and…