In front of your nose #nlpoli
Orwell, c. 1940Colourised by Cassowary Colurization A truly free and democratic society must be based on fundamental rights and freedoms that individuals may enjoy and that are restricted rarely and…
May 2020
Who will see their pandemic money first? The UCP’s political staffers, or Alberta’s health care aides?
In case you were wondering if Alberta’s United Conservative Party was also going to apply for funds from Ottawa’s Canada Emergency Response Benefit to keep party staff employed, that question…
Large gatherings at Toronto’s Trinity Bellwood park – Now we’ll see what happens….
My anti lockdown opinions notwithstanding, this is not the kind of activity I would take part in or even advocate. Lest anyone think otherwise, I do not buy into any…
Not afraid of Covid-19? That’s okay…..
Not everyone is living in fear about catching the novel and mostly benign coronavirus. Given a choice I suspect that most would just as soon not get it, but there…
Maybe
Maybe I shouldn’t have watched Joker this late at night but
Postmedia, still allied with BC Liberals
It is not the first time a Postmedia newspaper has presented a misleading report on public affairs. This one doesn’t rise to the level of Brian Lilley’s ugly dog whistle…
May 23. a very ugly tomorrow
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?serving of kings and emperors. ___________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/22/donald-trump-churches-mosques-synagogues-reopen This is pure politics. It’s a play for the evangelicals, many of whom have been ignoring the law and are cramming their churches…
Licia Corbella opinion piece “let’s down the side”; it let’s Alberta down.
I come from a family that loves playing sports. So, being of Caribbean Heritage, I always heard one phrase: “don’t let the side down”. Now, to be honest, it is…
Michael Jackson’s 2009 death now listed as due to Covid-19
The U.S. Corporation for Disease Control (CDC) has issued a new directive that all celebrity deaths of the past ten years will be declared due to Covid-19, the condition that…
Allen Baekeland, RIP
We were friends in high school, at Bishop Carroll. We all loved punk rock and he sort of managed those of us in the unmanageable Social Blemishes. That’s Allen wearing…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ryan Hayes and Edward Hon-Sing Wong discuss both the importance of collective action to protect workers’ rights, and the strategies which are proving…
Exploiting the Virus as a Smokescreen
The Tyee’s great petro-scribe, Andrew Nikiforuk, reveals how Alberta is exploiting the Covid-19 pandemic to suspend environmental monitoring of the Oil Patch. On the very day Premier Jason Kenney deemed…
Saturday Photo: The Fountain across the Street…
Early in the morning when I go out I hear two things: the wind in the leaves, and water burbling in our neighbor’s fountain across the street. The leaves on…
Federal Conservatives seek emergency support to help kick unemployed people off emergency support!
Surely there’s a special corner of Hell for the leaders of political parties who try to get unemployed people kicked off federal pandemic emergency supports at the same time they…
A Preview of a Dangerous Future and How a Damaged Society Responds
Donald Trump has forced us to see the bilious side of American society – the shamelessly racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, fearful, angry, paranoid and downright stupid half of the public that…
Present view
Present view. Not bad. And, yes, I stopped the video before Joey started to lay some pipe. pic.twitter.com/Kv7wljDRga — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 23, 2020
It Can’t Be Swept Under The Rug
What is happening in Hong Kong is appalling. Martin Regg Cohn writes: This week, under cover of COVID-19, Beijing crossed a line it had long promised to respect. Exploiting the…
Can Chuckles make a comeback?
The conservative party and the news media have written off acting conservative party leader Andrew Scheer much too soon. When he resigned late last year, the unwritten proviso was that…
Long term sustainable pandemic measures need to be decided upon now….
What a mess. Like many I’m overdosing on all things Covid. Given that I’m in Ontario Canada I’m going to focus my remarks on the situation to my home country…