Are U.S. hospitals boosting Covid numbers? It is possible
Like many people I’ve heard stories that U.S. hospitals get extra funding for treating Covid-19 patients, but I didn’t know whether or not that was true. According to a report…
May 2020
Public engagement on North Cowichan’s Municipal Forest Reserve under scrutiny
PlaceSpeak — an on-line platform widely panned by members of North Cowichan council as being confusing — will continue to be used for the public consultation process into interim management…
Covid Journal, May 21, 2020
School’s Out … FOREVER! In Ontario, Stephen Lecce announced on May 20 that school will not reconvene until September, 2020 … at the earliest. Meanwhile, old white men can continue…
The Amazing Spring Of Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau was looking very spiffy at his regular briefing this morning.Maybe it was just the sunny Spring day, or his new jacket.Or maybe it was this shiny new poll.Read…
The Politics of a Pandemic – Everyone is doing the right things…..
Canadians, no matter where they live, can be assured on one thing in our fight against the novel coronavirus. Whatever goverment is in place they are following the best advice…
Moving Your Law Firm to the Cloud with Microsoft Azure
In this episode of “In Conversation With…” Kerry Cassanova, President of Micronova Software Solutions Inc, joins Wise Law’s Garry J. Wise to discuss the ease of migrating your law practice…
Political Hope in Search of an Agent
Karl-Marx-Monument in Chemnitz, Germany. Photo from Flickr. This is the third in a seven-part, multi-week series of commentary on the COVID-19 crisis entitled WHAT IS TO BE DONE? A MANIFESTO…
StatCan says 13% of Canadians aren’t working—but the true number is more like 30%
A construction worker on site in Toronto. Photo by Jeanne Menjoulet/Flickr. Statistics Canada has just released its monthly labour force report for April. It’s the first monthly release that captures…
Not Helping the Team: Guess Who’s Coming to Testify
During the Covid-19 global pandemic we’ve had many sobering reminders about the importance of correct and reliable information. There has been so much garbage floating around, with others trying to…
Phase 2 of B.C’s Restart Plan begins this week.
Phase 2 of B.C’s Restart Plan begins this week. Stay safe by reading our guide on what we know about how COVID-19 is spread. Don’t bring explosives to police…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Linda McQuaig warns us not to tolerate yet another around of austerian demagoguery when investment in people’s well-being is a positive step toward…
The Second Wave
Just in time for the Memorial Day virus transmission festival, a new wave of ammunition is being fed to Trump’s lockdown-hating base. Treasury secretary Mnuchin is gilding it as a…
Consultation About The Forest: We Don’t Take The Math Exam Before We Learn To Add And Subtract
The pivotal moment has come for each and every one of the hundreds of people who have been asking for an enlightened new way to caretake our Six Mountains…
Mosque watchers have interesting friends
This has been a tough Ramadan for those observing during COVID19. Normally Muslims are praying at the mosque and breaking their fast with friends and families. An agreement was reached…
Mozilla Launches an Incubator to Fix the Internet
Due to increased consolidation of influential websites on the internet (like Google and Facebook scrapping content from other sites) the quality of the web has arguably decreased. To stymie this…
Insanity Itself
Bruce Arthur writes that the pandemic has exposed our world as it is. We can no longer look at it through rose coloured glasses: The pandemic is a mirror, and…
My latest: the blockading of a country
Armed police officers stopping people who were doing nothing wrong, and turning them away. It’s happened a lot, during this pandemic. It’s happened in Canada, too. For weeks, for example,…
The Pirates of the Pandemic.
The gloom and doom writers have it all wrong. You do realize, do you not, that there are business bandits who are making a killing because of the pandemic. These…
Covid Journal, May 19, 2020
‘Green’ seems to be the key word for recovery from Covid.