“When citizens are fearful and fraught with panic, they willingly give up freedoms for promises that the government will provide safety. Is unchecked government power more dangerous than the threat…
…It costs everything to have no foresight. Humans who are good at foresight get undermined by those who aren’t.
Alex Usher points out quite correctly that universities will need to be online by the fall. We’re not likely to be out of the Covid woods by then, and in-person…
The desperate policies of panic-driven governments involve throwing huge amounts of money at the economies collapsed in response to the coronavirus threat. Monetary authorities create money and lend it at…
A Review of Stephen Toulmin’s Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda Of Modernity, and, A Reading List For Thoughtful People Slow to get going, then increasingly fascinating, Toulmin’s Cosmopolis is a…
Okay, this doesn’t come from social media. It’s not another wacko conspiracy theory. It’s out of Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health where researchers have found a link between…
Absolutely everyone has been messed up by the current crisis. Plans in the trashcan, lots of uncertainty, feelings of not being sure what will happen, and real concrete not-metaphorical misery.…
Justin Archer joins Dave Cournoyer and Adam Rozenhart on this remotely recorded episode of the Daveberta Podcast to discuss the federal government’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan, the Canada Emergency Response…
Weeks of practicing social distancing can get tiring since we don’t feel as physically connected to our social groups as normal. That’s ok, we all feel that way. So what…
For Donald Trump, everything is about trade. And trade is about war. The Trudeau government has had some experience with Trump on this file. Susan Delacourt writes: Canada does have…
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the latest developments on Covid-19, UK…
It is my privilege to be a ‘Pro’ on Huddol.com, a virtual health and wellness support website for patients and caregivers in Canada. Being a Pro on Huddol is special…
Do you trust U.S. president Donald Trump? Why would you when his actions are erratic, his decisions changeable, his sources of information questionable and his attention span so limited? In…
It was April, 2019, when Nobel laureate economist, Joe Stiglitz, penned an op-ed in The New York Times calling for a rebirth of “progressive capitalism.” As I read the article…
As is often the case when dealing with Donald Trump, the saga of the five million N95 respirators built by Minnesota’s 3M Co. and purchased by Ontario keeps changing. On…
Our Canadian medical systems have been embraced for decades and while we do have coverage for a great many medical services without cost it is apparent that failure to continue…
By Craig Takeuchi As B.C.’s provincial health officer provided updates on the number of COVID-19 cases, she also responded to questions about whether or not to remove seniors from longterm…
Why COVID-19 previews a larger crash. What we must do to save ourselves. In two centuries, human population has spiked seven-fold and consumption by 100 times. ‘The Earth will have…
Again and again, I am reminded of the need for humility, as well as dignity and confidence. I am reminded not only by my own faults and errors, which are…
The following COVID-19 resources may be useful to many of you; if you know of similar resources not on this list, send me an email and let me know. i…
