140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of May 11, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 11, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: UPDATED: Everything you need to know about CERB, EI and income support…
May 2020
Caring About the GDP is Passé
In 2009 we looked at how Bhutan uses Gross National Happiness instead of the bizarre Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measurement to see how “successful” the country is. The GDP doesn’t…
After the Pandemic, Let’s Double Down.
Canada is going to come out of this pandemic stronger, more determined and in a better position to build a stronger future. And we could come out with a national…
Corporate welfare
Despite newspapers being longtime supporters of Fraser Institute teachings that call for reduced public spending, they are now more than happy to get in line for corporate welfare. That’s not…
Coronavirus has U.S. physicians eyeing politics — will COVID-19 and the UCP’s War on Doctors spur the same thing here?
The New York Times reported yesterday how the coronavirus crisis is prodding a wave of mostly progressive American physicians to enter politics. Many are women and most have connected the…
Kenney Rejects Notley’s Request for a Public Inquiry. Why?
At last count there have been 1,550 Covid-19 infections and three deaths connected with the Cargill, JBS and Harmony Beef meatpacking plants in Alberta. This is frightening in a province…
Margaret MacMillan on Coming To Terms With Covid-19
Eminent historian, Margaret MacMillan (University of Toronto, Warden of St. Antony’s College, Oxford) shares some important insights on what we have learned about pandemics since the Covid -19 outbreak. Whatever…
The Long Read part 2
In my previous post I wrote about reading during the lockdown, particularly delving into some longer reads like War and Peace. This time gives us ample opportunity to tackle books…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ronan Burtenshaw discusses the British public’s strong support for a New Deal featuring higher wages and more fair tax contributions by the…
Cast your bread upon the waters
Ecclesiastes 11 1Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again. 150 years ago, the Choctaw people collected what was then a grand sum…
Covid Journal, May 10, 2020
Moving forward … green, maybe with Musk (?) and the best description of Trump ever.
Wet Bulb 35 – It’s Already Here
It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. Well, heat and humidity. Another report. It’s not the Kohler, Lenton, Svenning and Scheffer paper published in the Proceedings of the US National…
Is This Just a Phase We’re Going Through? We Need to Figure This Out. This Could Be a Matter of Life or Death.
Give credit where credit is due. The Covid-19 pandemic will probably set some record for the fastest round-the-world transmission. There was a time when it was said that pandemics spread…
This week: Sparky on the, um, virus in the Trump White House
Sparky and Billy Bob are back! pic.twitter.com/TuEehKnHYU — SparkyTheTalkingRat (@RatSparky) May 10, 2020
OPINION Making history: How a pandemic took the world by surprise
Originally published by the Globe and Mail OPINION Making history: How a pandemic took the world by surprise The world will be different after the COVID-19 crisis, historian Margaret…
We’re Getting Re-opened in the Morning!
I’m picturing Alfred Doolittle singing that title. Here’s a rundown of my facebook page, where information mainly comes in images, saved here for the memories of what it was like…
Distance Yourself From Evil, Not People
The Boycott Big Tech Movement Begins Here First rule: Question everything, and think for yourself. Second rule: Don’t support your slavers. (Gandhi, MLK and Thoreau would understand. It’s time for…
Death Of A Con Man
Maureen Dowd writes that Donald Trump has come up against something he can’t con: Now the monstrous virus has invaded the Oval Office. Both the president’s valet and a Pence…
The cull.
Just memories for Mothers’ Day. Mother used to tell us six children that when her time came, she would expect us to send her off on her own ice flow.…