On historical patterns
It’s certainly understandable to try to maintain hope that a public address will produce some desperately-needed improvements to the lives of Saskatchewan’s essential workers. But let’s remember the track record…
April 2020
Will the "Red Menace" Work in the 21st Century?
During the Cold War, conservative politicians could always be relied on to trot out the “red menace,” accusing opponents of being soft on communism. It was usually good for a…
How is it going at the Cowichan Hospital?
Originally published by the Discourse “Late last week I spoke with Dr. Graham Blackburn, a local family doctor who is also the division head for family medicine at the…
United States of Trump
Behold the face of Trump’s America. https://t.co/isoiNU0Cx4 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 22, 2020
richardhughes.ca 2020-04-22 13:27:53
Hi Richard, Late last week I spoke with Dr. Graham Blackburn, a local family doctor who is also the division head for family medicine at the Cowichan District Hospital. It’s…
Logging creates few jobs, leaves unsightly legacy in Municipal Forest Reserve
Originally published by sixmountains.ca. Logging in the 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve created as few as 10 full-time jobs — two of those municipal staffers — last year, according to North…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Patricia Cohen discusses how the COVID-19 lockdown has exposed the precarious financial position of most Americans – but in the process highlighted that…
Clawing Back the Compassion
Throughout the fight against Covid-19 we’ve had many surprises, most of them unpleasant ones. But there have been some good surprises, things many of us might not expected due to…
Streaming 24 Hours A Day
The United States may be an empire in deep and irreversible decline, but it continues to excel in one area: comedy of the absurd. Its citizenry’s irrational antics amply serve…
Targeted Basic Income
It’s happened by happenstance, not by careful long term planning. But Hugh Segal and Evelyn Forget write that the Canda Emergency Response Benefit opens the door to a Targeted Basic…
Denmark Bans Bailouts to Businesses Paying Dividends and Using Tax Shelters
Every decade we need to bailout businesses so capitalism can keep functioning. In the last bailout, caused by American bankers, western countries gave banks corporate welfare cheques that went from…
Trudeau popularity way, way up
Here. I suspect Donald Trump is making him look pretty darn good, in comparative terms. But by all means, keep singing the praises of Trump, dumb Canadian conservatives.
Why the Response to COVID-19 Should Include Universal Basic Income
Leaflet-sized version of a poster unveiled in Geneva, Switzerland by Generation Grundeinkommen (Generation Basic Income) in May, 2016. Photo by Julien Gregorio/Flickr. We already know capitalism is failing in the…
Covid Journal, April 22, 2020
Heart breaking news from Nova Scotia.
Is Chuckles shooting blanks?
The lame duck conservative leader and leader of the opposition in parliament, Andrew Scheer, has a problem. Is nobody paying him any attention? Is it that difficult for him to…
Alberta safety inspection of Cargill slaughterhouse done by FaceTime, with no actual inspector on site
Alberta Labour’s occupational health and safety inspector didn’t actually visit the Cargill Inc. meatpacking plant in High River when the ministry inspected its COVID-19 safety measures on April 15. Instead,…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Couch cat.
April 20/04: 75 years After World War 2…
……we have created 75 years of the world that Hitler failed to achieve.________________________________________________________________https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/alberta-canadas-tar-sands-is-growing-but-indigenous-people-fight-back/ https://globalnews.ca/news/6832608/coronavirus-trudeau-alberta-bc-saskatchewan-energy-industry-orphan-well-cleanup/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-orphan-wells-cleanup-bill-12-1.5528257 Some of our news media are gushing about how a clean-up of a few oil…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Daniel Markovits argues for a wealth tax to fund the relief and rebuilding effort needed in response to COVID-19, while Paul Mason…