Ugly Disregard for the Moment
In times of emergency and serious national challenge, we normally see the usual political garbage that can skew our politics fall to the side. Usually that involves all the parties…
March 2020
Sanders & The Terror Of Socialism, vs The Real Dangers
A note to those on the right: Universal public health care is considered a basic human right in Canada, the UK, Europe, and every civilized country. It aslo happens…
The Denial Zombie
Paul Krugman has been writing lately about what he calls “zombie ideas.” Climate change denial is a zombie idea. So is pandemic denial. Both are zombie cousins. Both are rooted…
An idea that’s time has come.
It has been hard to be one of the few writers harping on the need for a Canadian universal income program. This past week, we got some support in the…
Revolution; and, Re-Thinking Bernie
I’ve been a big Sanders supporter, as much as I can be as a Canadian who can’t vote in the US. (Yikes… Canadians tampering in US elections! Call McCarthy!) But…
Military Take-Over? No – Take Over The Military
Absolutely no to martial law. But yes to taking resources from the military industrial complex. The military cannot be allowed to take over – under any circumstances. They must, however,…
Step Number One
Stephen Toulmin’s proposal of a return to a modest Renaissance humanism sounds wonderful (as a fresh start, so to speak, and only a start) compared to dogmatic ideology-fetishizing modernism on…
The Rolling Stones – "Ventilator Blues"
When your spine is cracking and your hands, they shakeHeart is bursting and your butt’s gonna breakWoman’s cussing, you can hear her screamFeel like murder in the first degree Ain’t…
Racist Poster Campaigns Gaining Momentum Across Canada Thanks to Telegram
A recent article from Omar Mosleh detailed a number of racist poster campaigns across Canada, focusing on the latest shift from ID Canada towards ecofascism. From The Base to Proud…
March 28: Nore of the same
The Irving family of New Brunswick has been plundering the people of New Brunswick and of Canada for what will soon be a hundred years. It poisons the province’s forest…
On universal relief
Aside from the usual mantra that “NDP = CPC!”, one of the most regularly-repeated Lib talking points criticizing the NDP’s work trying to get coronavirus relief to all Canadians has…
Trump Orders Military To Canadian Border
Posted by Erik Goldhar on Friday, March 27, 2020
No warning, no consultation, UCP yanks school funding using COVID-19 pandemic as excuse, costing 20,000 jobs
Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m., Alberta school trustees learned funding about to be yanked by the provincial government with no notice or discussion with boards. Massive layoffs are expected to…
Plague 2020: Life On The Inside
The WHO’s warnings to close schools at the end of February were accurate. Unsurprising to me, the climate crisis Deniers are out in full force trying to deny scientific pandemic…
Disease and Direct Action: Organizing the Winnipeg General Strike and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Demonstration at the Red Cross emergency ambulance station in Washington, DC during the influenza pandemic of 1918. Photo from the US Library of Commerce. The influenza outbreak experienced in Winnipeg…
Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher-Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth
Time for a break from the grim COVID-19 news. let’s watch these two fabulous dancers. Be happy, be safe. ?? Read more…
Doc Walton and Alex Marsh developed working ventilator masks that could help with the global shortage of ventilators
Originally published by the Cowichan Citizen Alex Marsh, 14, is using his 3D printer to create valves that are to be used in new ventilator masks to help deal with…
While They’re All Distracted By that Virus, Let’s Gut the EPA
Figuring that a public worried about a viral pandemic and their next pay cheque, Team Trump figures this is the perfect time to pull a fast one – or two…
Imagining A New World
Having the underpinnings of our daily lives so radically altered is immensely unsettling. The things we have always taken for granted, be it a daily walk, a quick trip to…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Derek Thompson reports on Denmark’s wage subsidies which are finally being mimicked by other countries including Canada. And Duncan Cameron points out how…