A prisoner inside the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre (also known as Barton Jail) tested positive for COVID-19 in late-March. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton Spectator. Multiple and concurrent disasters are unfolding…
There’s a lot of talk these days about lifting the Covid-19 quarantine. The governors of New York and five other east coast states have formed a working group on lifting…
Park Board Commissioner Stuart Mackinnon calls for real change for the greater good Vancouver Is Awesome, 13 April 2020 The COVID-19 virus crisis is unparalleled in recent times. Arguably, not…
The following conversation is being shared with the permission of my children. My teenager jinxed the eleven-year-old. This rules of jinxing is that two people attempted to say the same…
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a month that most of us have been living in these current circumstances created by Covid-19. It was about a month ago that…
The U.S. has seen some of its state elections turned into anti-democratic abominations by the absence of effective absentee balloting – with the lack of effective voting serving as an…
I’m thrilled to release the trailer for my new short film The Big Snore on YouTube. Yes, you read that title correctly. But I can assure you the film will…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tobias Jones discusses how COVID-19 has emphasized the importance of social interaction to human well-being: It seems callous to suggest that this tenebrous…
As many of us ‘wrap up’ Easter weekend, let’s be thoughtful about where our food is coming from and explore new ways to keep our food production, distribution and –…
Dimitri Lascaris, a long-time activist, author and former class-action lawyer is running to be the next leader of the Green Party of Canada. Photo by Vadim Daniel. During last year’s…
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed Canada’s response to Covid-19, the newly-passed wage…
There are countries where the distancing and isolating measures enacted include a total prohibition on cycling. But Canada isn’t one of them. And until Theresa Tam or Vera Etches tells…
As it came to dinner time on Easter Sunday and no turkey having appeared in my larder,. I turned to Door Dash and went in search of Indian food, hoping…
Here at this blog I have written a fair bit about Canada’s attempts to get needed medical equipment and personal protective equipment over the past couple of weeks. That writing…
To figure out the spread of COIV-19, or other diseases, the technique of contact tracing gets used by researchers to decipher who is likely to have been exposed. When too…
This is a long read, but it’s worth it. Italian novelist Francesca Melandri, who has been under lockdown in Rome for one month due to the Covid-19 outbreak, has written…
Lawrence Martin writes that Donald Trump is not likely to win re-election. What used to be his strong suit — the economy — has been shattered by the coronavirus: The…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 13,2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: R. Kelly requests bail because of Covid-19, but a federal judge turns him…
Bradley Waese, CPA, CA, Managing Partner of SF Partnership, LLP joins @wiselaw‘s Garry J. Wise in discussion about the federal government’s CoVid19 relief initiatives for employers, employees and workplaces. Information…
Some advise to progressive bloggers today: Do not get into an argument over wearing face masks in an epidemic. I got e-mails about that one! All, I did was mention…
