Social distancing and reading
With every responsible, mature adult practicing social distancing and self-isolation these days, it means spending lots of time at home, alone or within the small family unit. Trying for some,…
March 2020
Covid Journal, March 21, 2020
Welcome to the Vernal Equinox. May spring bring better things. Last week was a tough year. I decided to dial back on my anxiety a little for today and just…
Can’t believe this was a month ago tonight
SFH at the Bovine. This’ll likely be our last show for a long, long time.
Lecturing and Teaching Remotely — My Setup and Approach
I just ran a workshop/facilitate this morning for a number of the Chief Digital Officers from several European capital cities to help them share best practices and shared challenges in…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Adam Tooze writes that the coronavirus pandemic has offered a reminder that the economy (particularly defined in terms of shareholders’ interests) can’t be…
On Trump’s Watch
The New York Times has posted an animated graphic of how Covid-19 has spread through the United States. A picture really does beat a thousand words. Maggie Haberman discusses the…
how to afford a real social safety net: tax corporations, tax the rich, reduce u.s. military spending
As waves of shelter-in-place orders sweep over the continent, Canada and the US must figure out how to support an entire population thrown into unemployment and in need of food,…
Here’s a Little Gem for Self-Shut-Ins.
This social distancing/self-isolating thing is going to get tiresome if it’s not already. If you’re like me you may wonder how long you can live out of your pantry. The…
Can a Virus Teach Us to Live Smarter?
The Toronto Star’s Heather Mallick reckons we can come out the other side of the Covid-19 pandemic a lot smarter. It might even allow us to take a grown-up attitude…
Required Policy
Scott Clark and Peter DeVries write that we are headed for a very large deficit. But it’s manageable: It won’t be long before people will start asking about what all…
Saturday Photo: The Winter of Our Discontent…
The photo was taken 10 days ago when we were enjoying our escapade in Quebec City, on Wednesday, March 11 just after the sun came out to shine splendidly after…
Nearly 100,000 impressions
A lot of people seem to agree with this. Hope I’m wrong. Does anyone feel, as I increasingly do, that the United States is going to be hit very very…
The Bigger Plague is Capitalism (repost)
Experiencing a pandemic in real time is surreal. The culture industry machine has pre-transcribed such events in multiple movies, books, and comics. Read the rest of this post on the…
Trudeau is in the catbird seat.
Canadians have never seen anyone so well positioned at the moment than prime minister Justin Trudeau. Popping in an out of Rideau Cottage like a cuckoo in a clock, the…
Transit service levels in Cowichan unchanged, rear-door boarding on local routes
News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2020 Transit service levels in Cowichan unchanged, rear-door boarding on local routes Duncan, BC – While local service will continue as regularly scheduled,…
The new two-tier medicine: real physicians for the rich, an Internet app for the rest of us?
Get ready for the new two-tier medicine! Real doctors for the rich; Internet apps of the rest of us. Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro (Photo: Government of Alberta). You think…
Noel Ignatiev’s Conflicted Antifascism (repost)
Noel Ignatiev1 left a conflicted antifascist legacy. As a member of the Sojourner Truth Organization (sto), Ignatiev made important contributions to understanding fascism, above all its autonomous political character and…
Crossroads
Warning: this post contains difficult subject matter. I’ve never felt the need to put a warning about the contents of a post before but at the same time my twitter…
Lies In A Time Of Plaque
‘Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a…
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel tops independent Alberta bookshops’ bestseller list this week
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, March 15, 2020. The lists are compiled…