Bank of Canada to help GNL make payroll #nlpoli
Bank of Canada234 Wellington St, Ottawa The Bank of Canada announced today that it will purchase up to 40% of money market securities with terms to maturity of 12 months…
March 2020
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kenan Malik discusses how the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the fragility of the UK’s social and economic structures: The economic burden imposed…
Economists Demand Trump Immediately Lift Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela Sanctions That Are ‘Feeding the COVID-19 Epidemic’
President Donald Trump attends a White House Listening Session on Nov. 22, 2019, in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian. A group of economists…
Cowichan Valley officials seek widespread government action to protect old growth
The Cowichan Watershed Board is urging the provincial government to legislate protection of old growth on privately managed forest lands in the Cowichan Valley. A joint submission by board co-chairs…
Media Failure, Again
Remember the Iraq War? Remember the lies that were passed off by the elite, and repeated by the media without question, without any fact-checking or investigation? Well, it’s happening…
A Show of Hands, Please
Everyone in favour of the federal government taking on a nine to twelve billion dollar pipeline expansion when bitumen is now plainly a “stranded asset,” please raise your hands. Nobody?…
Coronavirus: Key Facts
“Acting true to form as the US military-intelligence community propaganda agent it is, the Washington Post recently published an opinion piece asserting, “America Needs To Be on a War Footing.”…
This Will Be Weird to Watch
As provincial governments trying to avert the worst of the Covin-19 pandemic order stores to close for the duration, does that mean they might bring back prohibition? I don’t think…
Truths We Now Hold as More Clearly Self Evident
We’re learning so much from this virus, about the world and about ourselves. Here’s a list of things I hope we take away from it all. These are things we…
Essential Reading: A Very Short List
Here is a short letter (email) I just sent to a few friends. It has a very short list of a few of the books I would consider essential reading.…
Covid Journal, March 24, 2020 (New Rules Primer)
I could have made a killing on the market. A couple of weeks ago, I predicted that the first ‘bottom’ for the Dow Jones Industrial Average would be about 21,500…
My latest: defeating a silent, invisible foe
In June 2004, the young doctors in their sparkling white coats filed into my father’s hospital room, holding charts and papers. They were there to tell him how they were…
Exhibit A
Watching Donald Trump and the Republican Party deal with the COVID-19 crisis provides us with a saga of profound and utter incompetence. Paul Krugman writes: First, let’s talk about the…
Gross Overreach
The past two weeks in our politics has been a watershed moment for sure, especially when you consider everything that’s happened. It took a while, but eventually all of our…
Thank You, Corona Virus
A friend sent the following to me this morning. It is quite powerful, and reflects the kind of thinking I and I’m sure countless others have been engaged in of…
How You Can Help Fight COVID-19
The global pandemic of COVID-19 is flooding healthcare systems with more patients than they can handle. There is something you can do about this: stay home. Yes, just stay home.…
Talking the Response to Covid-19 with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the latest developments on Covid-19, how…
Democracy
Walter Lippman said it well: “In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.” The Prime Minister squanders whatever goodwill…
Welcome to our Downton Abbey.
In reliving the period from before the First World War to the mid 1920s, the television series Downton Abbey was often criticized for not being more critical of the pomp…
COVID-19 Resources
What a lot has changed in just a couple of weeks. Plans have changed, lives have changed. We’d best gear up quickly, the dress rehearsal is over. Hic Rhodus, Hic…