The Complicated Evolution of Doug Ford
As we start the last week of April, it can be a bit stunning to think of everything that’s happened over the past nearly two months. We’ve seen lots of…
April 2020
Jason Kenney & Alberta’s Oil Industry should fear the policies of the Chinese, European and Indian Governments and not Ottawa
When I started writing my blog, more than five years ago experts said that electric cars would only be competitive with gas cars in 2035 or 2040. At the time,…
But A Brief Reprieve
If our thoughts have been able, even briefly, to break out of their ongoing obsession with Covid-19 and death, we will have realized a couple of things: One, that we…
Bringing The House Down
Tony Burman writes that Donald Trump is putting China in the driver’s seat. It wasn’t supposed to be this way: It began in 1972 when then-president Richard Nixon, an avowed…
Ontario NDP: A party of survivors.
If you came to Ontario recently, you would have a problem figuring out what goes on at the provincial parliament at Queen’s Park. With that big blowhard who seems to…
Too soon M. Legault
Premier François Legault has started to prepare Quebecers mentally for the gradual lifting of the province’s lockdown…
Herd Immunity Strategies will not save us from COVID-19
Share this: Dr Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer As Canadians continue to hunker down in the country-wide lockdown, Quebec’s Premier François Legault expressed interest in herd immunity this…
Winnipeg Neo-Nazi Exposed – Justin Hjalmarsson
ARC received a tip earlier today from antifascists about swastika imagery at a home in Winnipeg: a swastika has been spotted in the backyard of a home with a confederate…
We’re all about to be tracked by our “betters”
The police are only the tip of the iceberg. We’re all about to be tracked by our “betters” to see if we came close to a Covid-19 carrier, or whatever.…
April 25: An old, old story of human greed.
At the end of world war two, we immediately began to prepare for World War Three. The United Nations was not created for that purpose. It was intended for the…
Crisis Point: Leadership Needed From…Anywhere, Now
Imagine if real leadership from the grassroots comes now from the moderate, democratic/republican right, and not the centre or the left. Considering that the centre and left, almost without…
Cognitive Dissonance, Mass Insanity & Covid Hysteria
Check the numbers. The disease is not ravaging us, is not unprecedented, but has killed 1/3rd the death toll of a typical year of the common flu. DOES ANYBODY FACT-CHECK…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jane McDonald writes about the lessons we should learn for future crisis management from the coronavirus pandemic. And Jim Stanford discusses both the…
Saving lives
Once we recognise that this is a major event in human history, it can actually help gain some perspective. And as Cuomo said “What we have done has saved lives”…
We need closer oversight on high-tech police practices
Originally published by the ORCA APRIL 23, 2020 By ANIL ANAND Understanding and safeguarding personal freedom and civil rights is more critical than ever. So who’s policing the police? Policing…
Basic Income: The Right Time? (Video)
The newest episode of the Magpie Brûlé Video Podcast is now up. In this episode, I talk about the response of the Federal government to Covid-19, the lessons of the…
ALISTAIR MACGREGOR AND GORD JOHNS PROPOSE SOLUTIONS TO HELP LOCAL FOOD PRODUCERS.
ALISTAIR MACGREGOR AND GORD JOHNS PROPOSE SOLUTIONS TO HELP LOCAL FOOD PRODUCERS. OTTAWA – NDP Agriculture critic Alistair MacGregor (MP for Cowichan-Malahat-Langford), and Fisheries critic Gord Johns (MP for Courtenay–Alberni),…
Saturday Photo: Sculpture in the Spring
An example of making something grand out of nothing: Glenn LeMesurier’s sculptures. For a couple of decades he’s been creating fascinating objects from discarded machine parts. This photo was taken…