The Fierce Urgency of Now
The financial crisis is about more than money. It is also about morality, casting an uncomfortable light on the links between the activities of bankers and the wellbeing of society…
April 2020
One Of These Things (Is Not Like The Others)
BC is doing quite well but that is at risk if people don’t follow directions of Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, or if an outbreak occurs at one of…
There’s Nothing I Can Say.
This woman, a young nurse, went to New York, the American Covid-19 epicenter. I have nothing worthy to say.
Jason Kenney offers medical equipment to Ontario, Quebec and B.C.; pitches national solidarity on resource development
One hates to play the skunk at a tea party, but somebody needs to ask the question a lot of Albertans must be thinking. To wit, if less than a…
The Cowichan Community Land Trust E-newsletter
The Steward The Cowichan Community Land Trust E-newsletter Sharing our newest project and wishing you well ‘Seeing Cowichan Forests Beyond Trees’ Project-Photo: Steph Read more…
It is Time for a Spring Break
Cowichan Conversations will be ‘on hold’ for a while. It is gardening season among other things and I would like to take a break. I hope that you are all…
April 11: No. It ddoesn’t get better.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/11/coronavirus-who-will-be-winners-and-losers-in-new-world-order Much of North America’s news media treat our current crisis from a very local point of view. But this is not a local crisis. China, for example, thinks that…
The Vatican’s Lady Problem
The Vatican just doesn’t seem able to get past its misogyny. Once again it is debating whether or not to allow women some role in the Church hierarchy. The Pope…
Book Sale at Leftwingbooks.NET!
Big booksale at Kersplebedeb’s leftwingbooks.net website — in these times of lockdown and social distancing, we can’t table, but we can still mail books! We weren’t planning for a spring…
On antisocialism
Plenty of attention is rightly getting paid to the unabashed evil that is the Republicans’ insistence on holding previously-scheduled elections at a time when it was certain to make. But…
April 11 COVID News
The following COVID-19 news articles and information resources may be useful to many of you; if you know of similar resources not on this list, send me an email and…
A Glimmer of Hope
At various centres around the world research is underway to find a vaccine capable of combatting the Covid-19 pandemic. A paper released by the University of Pittsburgh school of medicine…
The Maxims of Empire
(And the Maxims of Liberation) There are at least five known, central maxims which all emperors understand and employ, which have been used for millennia by the elite in order…
Covid Journal, April 11, 2020
The longer we’re cut adrift, the sooner we learn to row.
Coronavirus Questions – and Explanations
Can anyone do basic math? Does anyone fact check? Does anyone question the media or the government? Another $2 trillion was just announced by the US Federal Reserve to…
Covid 19: How The Ignorance Of Some Could Kill Us
In my last post I looked at why we need to strictly enforce social distancing if we are ever going to get the Covid-19 pandemic under control.So we can flatten…
The Walrus Interviewed WEXIT Members. We Dug a Little Deeper.
The Walrus recently produced a photo essay about WEXIT in which they interview various, including some who have previously had a relatively low profile. Photo-journalist Brett Gundlock states in the…
On private interests
So far, the COVID-19 crisis has offered plenty of lessons about the limitations of delivering public goods through self-interested banks. Any relief has flowed only slowly, while the crisis has…