Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bryan Borzykowski recognizes that many Canadian families are weathering the COVID-19 crisis only by taking on more debt – though it’s worth questioning…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bryan Borzykowski recognizes that many Canadian families are weathering the COVID-19 crisis only by taking on more debt – though it’s worth questioning…
Last year about this time our neighbour, the horticulturalist, brought home several hundred tulip bulbs that he’d saved from being thrown out. They’d been used to decorate the hall for…
Many Vancouver Islanders get a little uncomfortable when they spot a white licence plate with red letters. That means a stranger in our midst, an Albertan. Not without cause Alberta…
Lockdowns are golden opportunities for those with a mind and the means to exploit them. Under the cover of coronavirus, all kinds of wickedness are happening. Where you and I…
The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, wants Congress focused on fighting what he calls the “second pandemic.” Fortunately Mitch already has a vaccine for this contagion. Mitch is worried that…
It’s 2020 and there are many things that are normal parts of our society today that just weren’t decades ago. We’ve progressed a lot as a society and we’ve got…
May 15, 2020 VANCOUVER (B.C.) May 15, 2020 – In response to an independent investigation into its Cowichan Valley Branch, the BC Division of the Canadian Mental Health Association…
Stephen Harper’s ghost still haunts the Conservative Party. In fact, Michael Harris writes, it’s still driving the Tory Bus: The CPC is supposed to be doing some soul-searching in the…
An interesting question was raised in the Toronto Star the other day. There was an opinion piece by Bob Hepburn proposing a national commission on the reconstruction of the Canadian…
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 10, 2020. The lists are compiled…
This pandemic is no fun for anybody, but let’s not kid ourselves, for some its not that bad. On the financial side of the equation things are actually pretty good…
Originally published by https://sixmountains.ca. For the second time, I’ve had to resort to a freedom-of-information request to the Municipality of North Cowichan to find out more about the consultation process…
As I'm sure you know, I believe that Andrew Scheer is the most morally depraved leader in modern Canadian history. He was already known to be a serial liar, a…
Esthero – Black Mermaid
As our fight against Covid-19 continues apace we’ve slowly started to see some activities come back to normal faster than maybe we would have hoped. One is the behaviours in…
I believe it was Monday that America hit the 80,000 Covid death threshold. Today the American death toll has reached 88,000. And the Memorial Day long weekend arrives in a…
Originally published by Rabble.ca Nicholas Erwin-Longstaff May 13, 2020 POLITICS IN CANADA As the coronavirus pandemic ravages the world, the dangerously unstable foundations of the globalized economy have been laid…
Yesterday I offered, shall we say, an unflattering appraisal of the American ‘character’ and psyche. Further evidence supporting that assessment is to be found in the following video: Perhaps those…
Inside the wall, apartment buildings similar to the one they observed earlier line the streets and there are people everywhere. Sisko explains that the place is a Sanctuary District, but…
We frequently hear that COVID-19 is the worst pandemic since the influenza of 1918. It is forgotten that another pandemic known as “the third plague” (because it was “the third…