Convention in the Age of Covid-19
We are pretty much a month into this new, odd normal of living with Covid-19 and frankly, it’s almost hard to believe that it’s been that long. I know for…
We are pretty much a month into this new, odd normal of living with Covid-19 and frankly, it’s almost hard to believe that it’s been that long. I know for…
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Assorted content for your Saturday reading. – Henry Giroux discusses how the greatest risks arising out of the coronavirus pandemic can be traced back to neoliberal political assumptions. And Patrick…
Canadian light armoured vehicles, developed by General Dynamics, move in a convoy in the Wainwright Garrison training area during Exercise Maple Resolve. Photo by Sgt. Jean-Francois Lauzé/Garrison Imaging Petawawa. As…
April is the Purell-est month. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 11, 2020
The sky has been full of geese this last week as Canada geese head north along the great St. Lawrence fly way. They pass over Montreal every spring and fall,…
It is hard to believe that it is so easy to con Martin Regg Cohn of the Toronto Star. The provincial affairs specialist wrote a piece the other day admiring…
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, April 5, 2020. The lists are compiled…
Labi Siffre – I Got The…
Here’s the tweet of the week month: Today is 3 wks in quarantine w/o sugar. Walking 3 miles a day, no meat, dairy or flour! I feel great! No alcohol…
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders Politics is ultimately about one thing: winning. If you are constantly losing elections while simultaneously claiming you’ve taken the high road, and stayed true to every…
Leaving the graveyard On MUBI.
I’m going to refrain from too much editorial for the next few days. Military and police actions for enforcing by-laws have me very concerned. Civil liberty organizations should be as…
One of the twitter feeds I follow commented that since mass social/physical distancing and self isolation has taken place, every day is like the other – the news is the…
Making real change for the greater good from a global crisis The COVID-19 virus crisis is unparalleled in recent times. Arguably, not since the 1919 Spanish Influenza outbreak, have we…
Yesterday morning, Christine Molnar, president of the Alberta Medical Association, announced that the province’s doctors are launching a constitutional challenge and seeking $250 million in compensation from the United Conservative…
Assorted content for your long weekend reading. – Andrej Markovcic discusses how the pursuit of profit above all else has contributed to the coronavirus pandemic and its devastating effects on…
A couple walk by a shuttered food truck at Nathan Philips Square in Toronto, Wednesday, March 26, 2020. Photo by Nick Lachance/NOW Magazine. Inequality and class disparity have been on…