Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
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May 2020
Why Biden will win and Trump will lose
This new Joe Biden ad rips into Trump for his COVID-19 response pic.twitter.com/PX1eV1Dcl0 — NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 12, 2020
The Value of Human Life
One of the most vexing aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic, at least for me, is the question of the value we all must place on human life. It’s a gruesome…
An Ugly Manitoban Birthday Snub
As a keen observer of politics all over the place, it has been interesting for me to watch how certain political leaders have managed to respond to the Covid-19 global…
Palestinian Nakba and the creation of Israel deserve equal recognition
This May marks the seventy-second anniversary of two conflicting narratives: Yom Ha’Atzmaut, the founding of the state of Israel, and the 1948 Palestinian expulsion, also known as the Nakba. Official…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jim Stanford highlights the drastic difference between Canada’s already-high official unemployment rate, and the much higher level of loss of work. And…
Planet of the Humans opens important debate about green capitalism, unlimited economic growth
Planet of the Humans Jeff Gibbs Rumble Media, 2019 Planet of the Humans, directed by Jeff Gibbs and produced by Michael Moore, has hit a sensitive nerve with well-established environmental…
How Two British Kids Fought Off A Cougar In Honeymoon Bay
I’m Mat Pereira, a journalism student at BCIT and The Discourse Cowichan’s remote intern. I’ll be answering some of your questions in the coming weeks. I’m from Vancouver, so it’s…
Justin Trudeau’s Amazing Spring Numbers
When I woke up this morning, it was such a beautiful day I thought it was Friday.And it wasn't even close !!#@!!But then neither was this poll.And it made me…
Covid Journal, May 11, 2020
Normal isn’t forward. What’s your town / province / government doing to help move us forward?
Toronto take note: Let’s Use Streets to Improve Cities
I live in Toronto where cars are king and everything else deserves to be banned from the road, heck we rip up bike lanes while other cities grow their bicycle…
COVID In Nursing Homes
In Ontario, COVID has raced through nursing homes like a wildfire. The Toronto Star has looked into the present situation. Martin Regg Cohn writes: The results from a Toronto Star…
Talking Leaders Responsibility to Set the Example with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about Doug Ford flaunting Covid-19 health rules…
Teaching Online – a Month in Review
A recent poll of Canadian students aged 10-17 found that, “When it comes to online classes, most say they’re keeping up (75%) but are largely unmotivated (60%) and disliking the…
My latest: the first casualty of pandemics is history
It is a sunny day in August 1986, and the interview with Canada’s High Aryan Warrior Priest is wrapping up. His name is Terry Long. At the kitchen table on…
So it goes
This is what the end of the pandemic will feel like: that scene in Slaughterhouse Five where the starving but free POWs taste syrup for the first time in years,…
Who will bell Ford?
Before you bell the cat, you had better learn something of its habits. This is not an animal that has been de-clawed nor rendered toothless. Nor has Ontario premier Doug…
Billions lost – bad luck, incompetence or fraud?
Electricity ratepayers, mostly residents and small to medium sized businesses, suffer because of failures by politicians and major media. The public was badly informed and that has enabled losses that…
Ferkakte #nlpoli
In the past 36 days, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has reported no new cases of CVD-19 on 21 of them. Three weeks worth of zero. More than a…
Lost years
Well, I think we have all realized now there is not going to be any “normal” anymore. The hysterical “reopen, damn it!” marches across the continent were a cry of…