Here are some important lessons in liberty, democracy and civil rights: From the eloquence of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Too bad our politicians, pundits and intellectuals typically lack such uncommon common…
The Regina Car Share Co-op‘s newest cars for their fleet have arrived, and are being prepared. Thanks to Affinity Credit Union, the car share had enough money to purchase 2…
Tonight’s MUBI movie
Kim Petras – Heart To Break
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister speaks during the province’s COVID-19 update at the Manitoba legislature in Winnipeg, March 30, 2020. Photo by John Woods. Over the last few weeks, it has…
Yeah, weed. Marijuana. It might just help you fend off Covid-19. Cannabis extracts are showing potential in making people more resistant to the novel coronavirus, says an Alberta researcher leading…
Assorted content to end your week. – Irfan Dhalla argues that we have a choice between merely containing COVID-19 and outright eradicating it – and that we’ll be far better…
20,000 children die a day of hunger, and nobody notices, nobody makes a peep: outcry is basically zero. But a new strain of the flu (statistically less dangerous than…
We’ve reached the point during the Covid-19 pandemic where governments are starting to have deeper conversations about re-opening things and re-starting some economic activities that have been shut down since…
Remembering VE Day; Should Dividends Be Distributed First to Essential Employees?
The devastation the coronavirus has wrought has come home today with the lastest unemployment statistics. The New York Times reports that, in April, Americans lost 20.5 million jobs. But Republicans…
Over 300,000 people took to the streets of New York on September 21, 2014 to demand action on climate change. Photo by John Minchillo/Flickr. The social movements that have so…
Watching that one-time cop, now Canada’s public safety minister, Bill Blair, blather on about guns is annoying. The liberal plan to do something about the proliferation of guns in our…
Now that Premier Jason Kenney has declared it “un-Canadian” to say oil is dead, I wonder if it’s OK to admit Alberta’s fossil fuel industry is on the ropes? Probably.…
If you get hit it’s your own fault!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/07/i-made-millions-last-debt-crisis-rich-win-coronavirus-fair-tax And here’s an unusual source to understand our debt crisis. – and to warn us that it is going to get worse unless we get serious about taxing the…
Ottawa and the provinces have struck a deal to boost the pay of essential workers. Together they’re going to cough up four billion dollars to top up the near-slave wages…
One of the toughest parts of leading a government during this pandemic is having to make “life or death” decisions. It pits the lives of your citizens against the market…
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair/Counterpunch. In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 3, speedboats left the Colombian coastlines and headed toward Venezuela. These boats had no authorization to cross…
Sometimes you have to be a little bit bad-ass – just to be a decent person, and do what must be done to help and protect others. Gandhi was…
