Simple facts about BC Hydro
Despite flat electricity demand since 2005, BC Hydro increased dollar value of IPP purchases by 185%, added 17% to its own generating capacity and bumped total assets from 12 to…
May 2020
DESIGNING AN AFFORDABLE, HAPPY & SECURE FUTURE
I’m always on the lookout for innovative housing models for older adults and recently, I came across one I really like. Jake Rothstein is a Florida-based entrepreneur on a mission…
That Vexxing Duty of Care
Employers welcoming the return of their workers as the pandemic lockdown is lifted have a problem – the duty of care. It’s the employer’s responsibility under common law to ensure…
The Other Contagion – Dumbassery
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the conspiracy gang out of their moms’ basements to spread seemingly limitless stupidity online and elsewhere. We’ve even got at least one of these characters…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – PressProgress discusses now polling showing that a strong majority of Canadians favour a broad transformation of our society in the wake of the…
Meanwhile, South of the Line, In the Delusional States of America.
Doctor Rick Bright, recently fired head of the American government’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development agency, who was axed for refuting Trump’s push for anti-malarial drugs as a solution to…
May 12: Not a good day.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/oct/12/phone-misery-children-congo-cobalt-mines-drc https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/apple-and-google-named-in-us-lawsuit-over-congolese-child-cobalt-mining-deaths https://www.worldvision.ca/about-us/media-centre/canadas-child-labour-problem And no, it’s not just China that does it. It’s done by our most highly respected capitalists in the western world with U.S.capitalists currently the leaders. One…
Ibbitson – The Anchor Around Canada’s Neck
The Globe’s John Ibbitson writes that Canada has a serious problem, one only tangentially connected to the Covid-19 virus we’re all dealing with. Any hope of economic recovery in Canada…
Meet Owen.
I love him. This is the best thing you will see today. Watch it. https://t.co/jQNE54iX04 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 13, 2020
Boris Says "Back to Work"
Boris Johnson wants Britain’s economy back up and running. He says he’d prefer those who can work at home stay there but those who can’t should return to work albeit…
Unless you are Trump, incumbency has become a blessing
@JustinTrudeau up, @fordnation WAY up. Also: there’s no apostrophe there, @LyleGreg! pic.twitter.com/J3EiXMrar4 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 13, 2020
‘Same Old, Same Old’: How Corporate Canada Puts Profit Above All Else
President Trump delivers remarks with Justin Trudeau, and then Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto at the signing the USMCA trade agreement on the margins of the G-20 Leaders’ Summit in…
Coronavirus Hits Dumbass America
Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky and North and South Dakota are the current hotspots for Covid-19 outbreaks in the United States. In a 7 May report, obtained by NBC News, the…
Canada and the Coup Attempt Against Venezuela
A protestor wrapped in a Venezuelan flag participates in a Hands Off Venezuela protest in London, January 29, 2019. Photo by Socialist Appeal/Flickr. In the early hours of May 3,…
Our Border Dilemma
All over the country we’re starting to see a slow re-opening of many parts of society as we adjust to living with Covid-19. Every province is taking different approaches, some…
IMF: Raise Taxes on the Rich, Lower Taxes for Everyone Else
Historically, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) argued for lower taxes for everyone, particularly those that need it the least: the wealthy. Due to increases in multiple forms of inequality since…
Another Corporate Bailout
Canada has just engineered another corporate bailout. Andrew Jackson writes that, this time around, the circumstances are different: Past crises such as the global financial crisis of 2008 have seen…
Electing women.
When the wife was having a Zoom meeting the other day with her book club, she used my computer. For some reason, I could not load Zoom on her laptop.…
Terra Nova field production halted for up to two years #nlpoli
No one should be surprised that the partners in the Terra Nova field are planning to lay up the production platform and will likely stop production from the field until…