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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Driving back from Wellington and saw these two. Best thing that happened all week. Good night, all.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Your freedom to get CORVID-19 ends where my respiratory system begins. https://t.co/W99AMhGOMF — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 10, 2020
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.”…
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…
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.…
Canada’s food future lies in the hands of Community Shared Agriculture, not Costco or Loblaws.