C.D.C. to Seniors – "Horde Baby, Horde."
The US Center for Disease Control warns those over 60 should stock up on food and meds and avoid forays outside. People who are over 60 years old, as well…
March 2020
The One-Choice Election
Vice President Joe Biden holds an event with voters in the gymnasium at McKinley Elementary School in Des Moines, where he addressed a number of issues including the recent escalation…
Closure
“Just break me into small parts Let go in small doses But spare some for spare parts You might make a dollar.” Great song on a great day. Ode to…
It’s time to meet the new generation of climate leaders
Thousands of people attended the climate strike rally on the lawn of the legislature in Victoria on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. Photo by Sharon Kravitz (Flickr). When I was in…
No, Say It Ain’t So. Not That!
It’s enough to make an Irishman’s heart break into wee pieces. No St. Paddy’s this year. No parades – not in Cork, not in Dublin. nowhere in the Republic. The…
Importing From China: A Virus? Or A Totalitarian Model Of Elite Control?
Someone prescient once said, “Those who would sacrifice a little freedom for a little security, deserve neither, and will lose both.” We would do well to remember those words now.…
Talking the Impact of COVID-19 & Jason Kenney’s Big Endorsement on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We spoke about about the growing impact of COVID-19…
the 2020-21 Alberta budget
I’ve written a ‘top 10’ overview of the 2020-21 Alberta budget, tabled on February 27. The link to the overview is here.
I’ll Bet Teck Isn’t Crying Now
If anything, Teck Resources should be breathing a sigh of relief that it chose not to proceed with its $20 billion Frontier mine project. While the usual suspects – Kenney,…
Not every coronavirus victim deserves sympathy
For historians, I will repeat my view: @realDonaldTrump won't be defeated by @JoeBiden alone – he will also be defeated by #coronavirus. It will lay bare his incompetence and dishonesty,…
History Rhymes All The Time
Three of the Conservative leadership candidates want a fall election. Susan Delacourt writes: Peter MacKay, seen as a front-runner, tossed it out in a fundraising letter: “Canadians have lost faith…
Congrats to new #OLP Leader Steven Del Duca
We already knew going into the Ontario Liberal Party Convention that Steven Del Duca had won a majority of delegates going into the Leadership Convention, and only needed superdelegate votes…
“Most stupid people are conservative.”
This will be of small comfort to premier Doug Ford of Ontario. A friend reminded me the other day of the quote from 19th Century philosopher John Stuart Mill that…
Remembering Simon Lono #nlpoli
Today is Simon Lono’s birthday. He would have been 57. This coming Saturday there’s a celebration of his life. Drop by and share in the memories. And if you cannot…
Russia moves for N.A. production and banking death blow while Kenney’s agenda disintegrates over-night
The fuckwad UCP’s social license and benefit of the doubt to do as they please to implement the Kenney agenda just expired. Kenney it would appear is out of time…
Remember when Canada was about to become ‘a global energy powerhouse’? So how’d that work out?
Anybody remember Stephen Harper’s plan to turn Canada into “an energy superpower”? That was in July 2006, a dream articulated in Mr. Harper’s first speech abroad as Canada’s prime minister.…
Episode 50: Supervised Consumption Services in Alberta with Dr. Elaine Hyshka
Dr. Elaine Hyshka, associate professor at the University of Alberta School of Public Health, joins Dave Cournoyer to discuss supervised consumption clinics in Alberta and the flaws in the United…
Budget 2020 and the Snake
On Feb 27, 2020 the Kenney government released Budget 2020. The day it was tabled it was under water, less than two weeks later it drowned. It sank beneath the…
Oil Wars or How’s That Pipeline Comin’?
Russia and Saudi Arabia are duking it out and it has sent world oil prices plummeting. The Saudis have been trying to close the taps on oil production in hope…