Like Dandelions
In the United States, there is a run on guns. Bob Hepburn writes: Americans are leaving their homes and lining up at grocery stores in the desperate hope of buying…
April 2020
Jason Kenney puts on his black hat.
Just when you start to think Alberta premier Jason Kenney is not such a bad guy, he drops a political stink bomb. He says his province can ignore our federal…
NYT – "The End of the World Economy As We Know It"
According to the Grey Lady, we’re in for “a rethink of of how much any country wants to be reliant on any other country.” For years I thought it was…
Hidden cost of fighting Covid-19
Numbers are imprecise but in normal times, 10 to 12 thousand patients are in BC Hospitals. Around 1,500 of those are discharged each day and replaced by new people needing…
Justin Trudeau needs to do something bold to fix the long-term-care disaster: here’s a suggestion
Surging deaths in Canadian long-term care facilities have blown Canada’s COVID-19 death projections to smithereens. Last night, the CBC reported the number of deaths from COVID-19 is already double what…
Look up
Driving back from Wellington and saw these two. Best thing that happened all week. Good night, all.
On “Natural Religion”
Both deism and orthodoxy are cloudy. Experience, in terms of inner experience, outweighs both reason and so-called empirical evidence, since the former can conjecture or rationalize anything, and the latter…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Annie Lowrey writes about the long-term effects of the millennial generation facing a second economic shock in the years which would normally…
NO, THE CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS DOES NOT GUARANTEE ANY RIGHT OR FREEDOM TO SPREAD CORONAVIRUS CONSPIRACY THEORIES, ASSORTED COVID-19 MISINFORMATION, AND OUTRIGHT LIES!
The Government of Canada, in an effort to protect Canadians against the spread of Coronavirus conpiracy theories, assorted COVID-19 misinformation, and outright lies, is being accused by Andrew Scheer, CPC…
How are "We" Holding Up?
It takes a bit of doing for the average Joe to keep abreast of developments in the multi-discipline area known as climate change. The fields are many linked by research…
Talking CERB Changes & The Role of Medical Experts on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, for a rare Thursday chat along with Jamie Ellerton. We discussed Canada’s continued…
Green New Dilemma
We are in very difficult times as governments and citizens do what we can to try to slow the spread of Covid-19. We’ve seen the effects for so many across…
We Need a Robust CBC Now More Than Ever
CBC logo under magnifying glass. Photo by Marco Verch/Flickr. The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused a surge of web traffic from people stuck at home and eager to keep up…
The Demoscene Added to UNESCO Cultural Heritage
Here’s something you probably didn’t expect to hear this week form Finland: they’ve added Demoscene to the UNESCO list of intangible cultural artifacts. According the Finnish Heritage Agency Demoscene is…
Live free or die. Like, really die.
Your freedom to get CORVID-19 ends where my respiratory system begins. https://t.co/W99AMhGOMF — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 10, 2020
A New International Order
When Donald Trump declared that he was cutting funding for the World Health Organization, Richard Horton — the editor of the Lancet — called his decision “a crime against humanity.”…
The Cost of This Pandemic Must Not Bankrupt the People
Photo by Anna Shvets/Pexels The global pandemic of COVID-19 has spread to almost every country on the planet earth. The virus will take many lives, disrupt communities and institutions, and…
In Memoriam: Mark Golden
Mark Golden, professor emeritus in the Department of Classics at the University of Winnipeg (1948-2020). Image created by Krishna Lalbiharie. Father. Professor. Partner. Friend. Son. Mentor. Ally. Scholar. Teacher. Uncle.…
Covid Journal, April 16, 2020
Canada’s food future lies in the hands of Community Shared Agriculture, not Costco or Loblaws.