katy bowman’s nutritious movement: will it change my life? i’m working on it
One of my principal goals for 2019 was to improve my level of fitness. I had been only sporadically active for 10 years — beginning with starting graduate school while…
June 2020
Think of the Pandemic as a Fire Drill
There is a lot of knowledge to be mined from how our nations – and their citizens – responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. That knowledge could be invaluable to us…
The Empire Strikes Back
A number of police unions are responding to public hostility to cops in the wake of the George Floyd execution. I watched a video yesterday posted by the head of…
More Than 900 Scholars and Lawyers Call on Government to Defund Police
Riot police at the G-20 Summit, Toronto, June 26, 2010. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. In light of ongoing police violence against Black, Indigenous and racialized people in Canada and around…
What Manner Of Man Is This?
The short answer is that he is not a man at all. A man, as opposed to a raging narcissist/sociopath, would never do what Donald Trump is planning as he…
The Devastating Impact of White Supremacy
Those of is who are familiar with Billy Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ and Nina Simone’s ‘Mississippi God Damn’ should listen again. Those who have not please do so now.RH Originally published…
A Dark Night in Albuquerque
Over the past three weeks the world has been watching the protests against racism that have been unfolding in the United States. The sight of hundreds of thousands of Americans…
At Last, an Anti-Viral
BBC news reports that a cheap and widely available drug, low-dose dexamethasone, has been proven effective at reducing Covid-19 death rates by as much as a third for the hardest-hit…
Covid Journal, June 15, 2020
Erin O’Toole: Trump Lite Why do the Conservatives insist on keeping up the BS rhetoric and whipping up racist fan bases with ‘Keep Canada White’ slogans? Erin O’Toole continues down…
Equity data as an ethical necessity: Understanding the viral confluence of injustice through COVID-19
The outbreak map dashboard showing statistics on the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States during a briefing from Johns Hopkins University on Capitol Hill on March 6,…
Et Tu, Mary?
There are lots of people in the streets these days trying to bring Donald Trump down. But Arwa Mahdawi writes that it may be Trump’s family who drives the final…
Talking the Re-Opening & the Re-Naming of Russell with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the latest developments in Ontario’s Re-opening from COVID-19, how…
The embarrassment of Justin Trudeau.
You do know, do you not, that in a time of pandemic, prime minister Justin Trudeau is quietly building an abomination of a pipeline across our magnificent Rocky Mountains. There…
SCC decision complicates school budgets for fall 2020 #nlpoli
The provincial government’s budget problems, the amount it spends on education, and its plans for the fall living with COVID-19 just got a whole lot more complicated thanks to the…
Athabasca U: The redheaded stepchild of Alberta universities faces a Cinderella moment
Is Athabasca University, long the redheaded stepchild of Alberta’s universities, about to have its Cinderella moment? After years of financial insecurity and deep angst about a mission seemingly made redundant…
Federal NDP Deliver the Goods For Those Whose CERB Benefits Could Soon Run Out
Dear community members, As COVID-19 cases continue to decrease here in British Columbia, the economic implications of this pandemic continue. Across the nation, people continue to experience financial hardship associated…
Vancouver Mayor Kenney Stewart’s Big Cop Out
Paul Willcocks 12 Jun 2020 | TheTyee.ca Paul Willcocks is a journalist and former publisher of newspapers, and now an editor with The Tyee. He heads BC’s largest city…
The Global Attack on Press Freedom
To Trump, they’re the “enemy of the people.” To Rodrigo Duterte, they’re “sons of bitches” who are “not exempt from assassination.” A prominent Filipino journalist, Maria Ressa, has been convicted…
UN Human Rights Council to Debate Racism
The United Nations Human Rights Council will convene Wednesday to discuss racism and police violence. The HRC scheduled the debate at the request of the 54 nation Africa Group. Burkina…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Jonathan Watts reports on new research showing that even existing worst-case scenarios may underestimate the severity of the climate crisis. Anna Kanduth and…