Thinking about the future of Canadian food
CNN has a big story tonight about the future of the US food supply – with more questions than answers: “We don’t know what the food-service sector will look like,”…
May 2020
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré is Alberta independent bookshops’ fiction bestseller this week
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, May 17, 2020. The lists are compiled…
Fourteen Days.
Vancouver Island has not had one new case of Covid-19 in two full weeks. Since the virus arrived this island of 870,000 plus the residents of the Gulf Islands have…
Musical interlude
Royal Canoe – Living a Lie (Glacial)
Parking to reopen at Vancouver beaches and parks starting today
Vancouver Park Board Information Bulletin May 22, 2020 Starting this morning, Vancouver Park Board staff will begin reopening the majority of parking lots at parks and beaches, with the aim…
Andrew Scheer’s Most Miserable Birthday Ever
It was Andrew Scheer's birthday the other day, but as you can imagine the celebrations were somewhat muted.None of his Cons felt much like celebrating, not when so many of…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Through the newly-developed Progressive International, Grace Blakely writes that we don’t have any choice as to whether our future will be planned –…
Re-Loading for the Next Wave
We have a small window of opportunity to prepare for the next wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. We’ll need that time to replenish stocks of emergency equipment, testing sets and…
Covid-19. For Donald Trump It’s Still All About Him.
The president of the United States is supposed to set an example for the American people. Apparently Trump didn’t get that memo. He probably just didn’t read it. Trump sparked…
The Truth But Apparently Not The Whole Truth
In many ways, I consider myself to be a very fortunate person. In my 40 years on this Earth so far, I’ve had the chance to live out some dreams…
Dying For The Dow
Donald Trump and his party are morons. They never — indeed, it seems they can’t — learn anything. Paul Krugman writes: For a little while it seemed as if we…
THE WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL
In the worst of times, the best we have is art. It transforms, heals, elevates us. We all need this simple message of hope. That, a walk in the woods…
Panic in the pandemic.
The problem is that these so-called experts keep changing their minds. They tell us to wear a mask and then they say, ‘Don’t bother.’ Now they want us to wear…
To mask or not to mask, that is the question….
Messaging from government and health officials during this pandemic has been absolutely horrible, of that there can be little doubt. Right from the start we had Canada’s chief medical officer…
What is an acceptable level of death?
I think its finally time for us to move beyond panic and fear, and to come to terms with the fact that government can’t protect us from death. People die…
Frustration grows as Tyler Shandro’s promised $2-per-hour top-up for health care aides fails to appear, again
More than a month has passed since Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro promised the government would pay the province’s health care aides a $2-per-hour coronavirus-crisis top-up — and there’s still…
Now is the perfect time for Canadian governments to ban smoking….
Canada’s response to the current pandemic has shown what can be accomplished when governments are motivated. Previously we’ve only seen this during times of war I would argue, when money…
Time to stop ridiculous comparisons between Covid-19 and the Spanish flu
Panic porn. I wish I could take credit for that characterization of the media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, but I can’t, I got it from Bill Mahar. But I…
Is Sweden’s Covid Experiment a Failure? The Early Results Aren’t Promising.
While the rest of Europe went into lockdown, Sweden decided to try something different. The Swedes chose not to lockdown their economy and, instead, try to develop ‘herd immunity’ by…
America’s Lethal Delay
It’s terrible when a disease claims tens of thousands of innocent lives. It’s worse when a failure of leadership is responsible for most of those lost lives. On May 20,…