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…
April 2020
A COVID-19 Message from Park Board Commissioner Stuart Mackinnon
Stay Safe Stay Healthy Stay Home
Saturday Morning Links
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…
Canada re-embraces Saudi monarchy by lifting freeze on arms exports
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…
And it’s 30 years long
April is the Purell-est month. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 11, 2020
Saturday Photo: Geese Flying North, A Sign of Progress?
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,…
A phony Ford forges forward.
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…
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel tops Alberta independent bookstores’ fiction bestseller list
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…
Musical interlude
Labi Siffre – I Got The…
How I spent my summer vacation
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…
Bernie Sanders lost because he didn’t really try to win over centrist doubters
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…
Sun in the last days of the shogunate
Leaving the graveyard On MUBI.
Covid Journal, April 10, 2020
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…
COVID-19: Take care of your mental health too.
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…
Love in the time of COVID-19
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…
Docs fight Alberta pay cuts in court, seeking $250 million, while battling COVID-19 on the front lines of health care
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…
Friday Morning Links
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…
Liberals’ COVID-19 support measures reveal crisis in Canada’s low-wage job market
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…