Ended with a Silly Whimper
It’s amazing to think how much things can change in a year. It’s been just 12 months since Ottawa was completely caught up in the SNC-PMO Scandal, the words of…
March 2020
Global Financial Asset Deflation: Prelude to Next ‘Great Recession’?
Traders and floor officials at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, March 9. The Dow closed down by 2,000 points for the first time ever. Yesterday morning, on March…
The Baby Boosters
According to the Worldometer (the world population clock), at 12:22 p.m. today the planet’s population of Homo sapiens was 7,769,974,138 with a net gain (births over deaths) of 114,862 so…
Globalization: Killed By Coronavirus?
Globalization was already a dying ideology and socio-economic-political order, program, or pattern, by 1999, twenty years ago. The defeat of the MAI and the Seattle World Trade Talks made that…
Report forecasts future of Alberta’s oilsands as more production, fewer jobs, and less spending
Thanks to technological advances and modular facilities, leading oilsands companies are increasing bitumen production while cutting the numbers of people they employ and spending less money, says a new Corporate…
When Is Discrimination Not Discrimination?
Answer: When it occurs in Quebec. Question #2: Where is teaching tolerance, respect and understanding considered contrary to the public good? Answer: Quebec It would seem that in La Belle…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nick Falvo points out the massive cost savings that come from investing in Housing First programming. And Keith Gerein writes that if…
The Factor Beyond Our Control
As the World reacts to Covid-19 and grapples with how to best protect people, we’re seeing a lot of examples of things that should be done. Here at home we’ve…
This Company Pays Everyone 70k and it’s Thriving
A few years ago the CEO of Gravity Payments, Dan Price, decided to change the pay structure at his company to ensure a better and happier workplace. He decided to…
It’s Insanity
You might think that Donald Trump’s denial of reality in the face of the coronavirus is something new. But Paul Krugman writes that denial in the face of a crisis…
My latest: washing your hands is smart politics
A press conference. In the Spring of 2003, the coronavirus variant called SARS was raging, killing many Canadians, making them sick. So Ontario’s health minister, Tony Clement, held a press…
Bigotry is blooming early in Quebec.
It seems to come each year with the spring flowers. Bigotry is the passion of Quebec nationalists. They care less that people recognize them for what they are: small-minded, intolerant,…
NL after the oil boom and hydro bust #nlpoli
Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society George Story Lecture and Annual General Meeting Marine Institute – Hampton Hall The Return of History? Newfoundland and Labrador after the Oil Boom and the…
Death spiral
Unless major changes occur at BC’s public utility—something the Horgan Government seems determined to avoid—the 60-year-old company’s death spiral will advance.
Appointment of conservative economist Jack Mintz to head Jason Kenney’s latest economic panel is not a good augury for Alberta
Come into my office, Alberta, and sit down. I’m sorry to have to tell you that your prognosis is not good. I’m not talking about coronavirus. That will be painful,…
BREAKING NEWS-Wet’suwet’en Protestors Caused Crash Of Oil Prices
BUSINESS Experts scramble to figure out how global oil price crash the fault of Wet’suwet’en protestors Originally published by BEAVERTON by IAN MACINTYRE(@MRIANMACINTYRE) Photo Credit CALGARY — As oil prices…
An Italian physician’s story
Here. Read all of it.
Toronto Protest For Greece Draws Far-Right and Neo-Nazis
On March 8, 2020 AHEPA Toronto held a rally in support of Greece’s refusal to allow asylum-seekers through the Greek border. Their position, as indicated in an email campaign they’ve…
Talking Stock Markets Tumbling & Living Life in the Time of Covid-19 with Kristy Cameron
Today I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Shane MacKenzie on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about a very bad day on the…
Misinformation on the Record
2020 has been a very hard year so far and with everything that’s going on in the World, I think we can agree that we are dealing with some very…