Newfoundland and Labrador is already emerging from the first wave of the COVID-19 infection. The data from the provincial government’s daily COVID-19 media briefings is clear. Starting on April 6,…
Who would have thought a decade ago, or even six months back, that Canada’s chances of surviving as a unified country would be better than those of the United States?…
Share this: The new Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy is a brand new program created by the Liberal Party of Canada that would provide 75% of a workers wage to workers…
How are you? Are you okay? The Soapbox family is fine. We’re the lucky ones, we’re doing reasonably well under the circumstances. We check in with each other every day.…
People that own our food chain need to understand that the longer we’re cut adrift, the sooner we’ll learn to row.
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lauren Leatherby and David Gelles examine how people are spending money differently in the midst of a pandemic, while Lucia Mutikani reports…
It’s not a surprise that the far-right have latched onto every conspiracy under the sun with respect to Covid-19; this is where they live. It’s also not a surprise that…
My great hope is that he’s now less of a jerk. https://t.co/Xt0aX4E6KJ — Paul Doroshenko, Q.C. (@PaulDoroshenko) April 12, 2020 The UK’s PM has apparently recovered from a serious COVID-19…
A man walks down an empty Yonge Street in Toronto. Photo by Myles Herod/Instagram. In the conditions of extreme economic dislocation that the COVID-19 pandemic has created, a crisis of…
The cast of Arrested Development Last week, in an attempt to alleviate the tedium of the Coronapocalypse, I offered some dramatic fare to help you fill the thousands of empty…
The obvious answer is “yes,” the federal government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic was a litany of quarter- or half-measures, missed opportunities that allowed the virus to win the early…
I am officially in love with Montaigne – as well as Etienne de La Boitie, Thoreau, Emerson, Blake, Boethius, Plotinus, Aristotle, Socrates, Heraclitus, Spinoza, Hume, Bertrand Russell, Kropotkin, Jesus, the…
In isolation, rolling through various things, an old drawing surfaces.
A deserted Rome, Photograph: Stefano Montesi/Corbis via Getty Images By Francesca Melandri ‘We are but a few steps ahead of you in the path of time.’ The acclaimed Italian novelist…
Winnipeggers gathered in the cold outside of the Winnipeg Police Headquarters in early March to demand justice after a police shooting left Machuar Madut, 43, dead. Photo by Quincy Houdayer/The…
There was a big crowd in the parking lot, but I got to Mass! Happy Easter to all of you. We will all rise again. pic.twitter.com/Pgn6rCunrw — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren)…
To say that our current Covid-19 global crisis is causing us to rethink many things is to state the obvious. Far and wide, people are coming to new understanding about…
The current situation has brought many questions to mind for us all with the majority connected with our governance in one form or another be it provincial heath departments or…
Those were the words of Pope Francis, mentor to the world’s Catholics, who marked the way of the cross Friday in an empty St. Peter’s Square. Not being religious, I…
Social Psychology & Meditation On Death
Montaigne said of fear, “There is no emotion which more readily ravishes our judgement.” That would seem to be the best explanation of our current mass social psychology: the great…