Mel Watkins: A Life Well Lived
Political economist, activist and professor Mel Watkins (1932-2020). Image created by Krishna Lalbiharie. Mel Watkins, who passed on April 2, was a wonderful human being, a friend and mentor, the…
April 2020
what i’m reading: political graphic nonfiction: emma goldman, muhammad ali, eugene v. debs
I have been collecting graphic nonfiction with leftist political themes. I just love these books and am indulging myself in buying them. I was planning to review them, but I’ve…
A Courageous Proposal
We’re in unprecedented times and everyone is trying to figure out how to operate properly during them. For some that’s much easier than others, and certain groups positions are easier…
Post From the Past: Tesla vs. Ford GM
https://twitter.com/mims/status/848971911975636992 https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-overtakes-gm-to-become-most-valuable-u-s-auto-maker-1491832043 These tweets brought to you by April 3rd, 2017, the past when I wrote this blog post, and probably have since forgotten about it. UPDATE Nov. 20, 2018,…
The Weakness In Globolization
The pandemic has exposed the weak link in the theory of globalization. The theory states that those nations which can easily produce certain products should produce them, while those countries…
Look on the bright side of all this
Three weeks into the pandemic, here are the three groups we never need to hear from again: • anti-vaxxers• Trump fanatics• anti-government types They’re done. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April…
When your time’s up, your time’s up
Some of you were upset that I said – and so stipulated in my living will – that I didn’t want to be put on a ventilator, if I got…
Kenney dives into pipeline financing.
In a time when the rest of the world is expending all energy and funds into the war against the novel coronavirus, Alberta premier Jason Kenney is following his own…
Smoke and mirrors aren’t cutting it — Alberta’s health minister still needs to go
Despite a lot of smoke and mirrors, Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government has never dispelled the queasy feeling many Albertans have that Tyler Shandro’s personal business dealings render him unsuitable…
Zazie dans le metro
That was focking insane. It must have made some sense at the time.
Joe Biden: An Unremarkable Man
Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden Branko Marcetic Verso, 2020 Joe Biden had been a United States Senator for more than three-and-a-half decades until his selection as Barack Obama’s…
April 2: Writing a blog is hell……
…that’s why this one will be brief. I had spent many hours writing it, and was into the home stretch. And then it all disappeared. This has heppened before though,…
Justin Trudeau and the Covid Cons
The other day, Cathie from the excellent blog Cathie From Canada, left this comment on my blog:I have never been more proud to be Canadian than I have been since…
I’m Becoming an Oil Baron
For those who complain there’s nothing in the news but COVID these days, try the Alberta section. Lots going on. For example, our government just laid off 26,000 school support…
April 2 COVID News
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…
Eating in Quarantine: Maverick’s Donut Company
So, I won’t be going out for a meal I can review in the near future. But I still gotta ear, and now I have more time to write too.…
COVID 19: 5 Demands for Federal Prisons
COVID 19: Measures for Federal Prisons IMMEDIATELY RELEASE ALL VULNERABLE PRISONERS: Anyone over 50 years old, immunocompromised, pregnant, sick, or who has a preexisting condition that makes them at high…
COVID-19 5 Demandes pour les prisons fédérales
COVID-19 Mesures impératives pour les prisons fédérales LIBÉRONS IMMÉDIATEMENT TOUS LES PRISONNIERS VULNÉRABLES : Toute personne de plus de 50 ans, immunodéprimée, enceinte, malade ou présentant une condition préexistante qui…
My latest: leadership in tough times
Leadership in good times means little. Leadership in bad times means everything. And these times, they are indisputably bad. Grim, grinding, grotesque. For the rest of our lives, we will…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jeet Heer writes about the class war already emerging in competing responses to the coronavirus epidemic. Ricardo Tranjan makes the case for…