$10 Oil Bearing Down on US Markets
The world oil supply is bursting at the seams. World oil producers are running out of places to put it. The Saudis (and others) have been so backed up with…
April 2020
$0 Oil Has Come to Athabasca. Hey, How Are Those Pipelines Coming Along?
From Oilprice.com: Canadian oil companies have begun shutting down steam-driven oil sands production projects as prices continue to fall, Reuters reports, noting the move could have dire long-term consequences for…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bruce Campbell writes that we have a needed opportunity to reimagine how our economy and society are organized, while Gregory Beatty rightly argues…
A Timely Idea
Poland and Denmark have decided that there’ll be no government bailouts for corporations registered in offshore tax havens. The Danish finance ministry on Saturday extended its bailout program into July…
Review: The Serpent of Venice
The Serpent of Venice is a mash-up extraordinaire of The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and The Cask of Amontillado, starring Pocket, the lead from Moore’s… Continue ReadingReview: The Serpent of…
Institutional Legacies of Violence: Neoliberalism and Custodial Care in Ontario
Many residents at the Huronia Regional Centre, an institution for developmentally disabled children operated by the government of Ontario between 1876 and 2009, suffered long-term neglect as well as physical…
Facebook Corrections Leave Questions
The problem with this Facebook censorship/correction of disinformation is that they’re really bad at censoring. My blog has been blocked for years, and they’ve never responded to my appeal to…
The new world
A few months from now, there will be two classes of people: those with proven immunity, and those who don’t. It’s going to upend a lot of the old class…
Organizing the unemployed in Alberta: Lessons from past depressions
William Dudley “Big Bill” Haywood during the Lawrence textile strike on the Lawrence Common, Lawrence, Massachussetts, March 14, 1912. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Periods of mass unemployment, like the daily-worsening…
Covid-19, the Other Killer
By now everyone knows that Covid-19 attacks its victims in their anatomical boiler room – the heart and lungs. But Covid-19 has a new and very dangerous ally. These people,…
Talking Tragedy in Nova Scotia 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 had a hard discussion about the tragedy from…
ayoubs.ca for the best nuts and dried fruit shipped to your door
Isn’t this beautiful? I had an instant flashback to stores we visited in Amman. For a healthy snack, you can’t beat nuts. They’re packed with protein, healthy oils, vitamins, and…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of April 20, 2020
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of April 20, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Apr…
To All Trump Enthusiasts Everywhere
I’m sure your master endorses this message. Meanwhile, Heather Mallick has an interesting explanation for the servile attitude so many Americans have toward their clown president. Why do Americans, alleged…
All The Perfumes Of Arabia . . .
When historians write about the Trump Era, they will have to confront his impeachment. And they will no doubt conclude that Congress’s failure to remove him from office was a…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of April 20, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 20,2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: An ER doctor loses custody of daughter because of coronavirus fears How Toronto…
Covid Journal, April 20, 2020
What is terrorism if it’s not being forced to hide in your basement waiting for someone disguised as an RCMP officer to shoot you in the back?
Learning to love your local MP.
In our time of need, do you not love the attention we are getting from our local politicians? I am thinking here of your federal member of parliament. This person…
The three CVD19 pressures the NL government will face #nlpoli
Last week, SRBP raised the likelihood that declining numbers of active cases of CVD19 in Newfoundland and Labrador will put pressure on the provincial government to ease the current restrictions…