NFL Kneels to Kaepernick
The message couldn’t be more clear. The National Football League was wrong. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell admitted in video posted to Twitter on Friday that the league should’ve listened to…
June 2020
Trump Thinks George Floyd Would Be Delighted With Latest Job Statistics
The crazy bastard actually said that. Driven to madness with the latest job stats showing that the US added 2.5 million jobs last month (unemployment still hovers at 13%), Trump…
Accessible Spaces for Everyone
At the next meeting of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation on Monday 8 May, a motion will be brought forward asking staff to examine road access within Stanley…
After the Pandemic
First Policy Response has brought together diverse views (including my own) on how the pandemic recession differs from previous recessions and what we need to do to get through this…
The Generals Refuse a Tyrant
It was just over three years ago that Politico published “The Generals Guarding American Democracy: It Has Fallen to Military Men to Keep Our Institutions Safe.” A little more than…
Open Letter to the Burnaby School District on #BLM
Hello, I was disturbed to see yesterday’s retweet of the Burnaby RCMP video greeting: This is a messed up world. White supremacy has been rampant for generations and with the…
Statutory Layoffs, Constructive Dismissal and Covid-19
BY SIMRAN BAKSHI, ASSOCIATE LAWYER The Covid-19 pandemic has proven just how adaptive and resilient we are as a society. In the face of this crisis, we have embraced drastic…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Linda McQuaig writes about the policies which were needed to sustain us through the COVID-19 crisis so far – but whose success can…
Unionization at Deadly Care Home Signals Change, Says Expert
Pandemic, NDP’s legal changes opening door to more unions in the sector. Moira Wyton Today | TheTyee.ca Moira Wyton is The Tyee’s health reporter. Follow her @moirawyton or reach…
Covid Journal, June 5, 2020
Ibuprofen: to take or not to take? A return to competitive sports when school is still cancelled? A grim chapter in America’s race relations.
Repost: The Blood of Emmett Till
Almost two years ago I wrote a series of posts on racism, starting with the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy horribly tortured before his death. Here…
Standing Up to a Close Friend
One of the upsides of living in a free society is the chance to hear and read the opinions of others. Most times those opinions don’t change much in your…
No Moorings
Donald Trump’s recent actions have harkened back fifty years to another time and another president — Richard Nixon. But, Paul Krugman writes, Trump is no Nixon: The Trump-Nixon comparisons are…
Pestilence rides the pale horse.
The cull continues. The deaths mount. Do the continuing failures of those who govern America take precedence over the battle with covid-19? Does pestilence allow a time-out for protest? And…
More destruction of prime farmland
Today, a message from Cedar Isle Farm near Agassis BC landed by email, telling about another effort by real estate developers and their allies in municipal government. The aim is…
Alberta’s Bill 1 is bad law, bad theatre, and an unconstitutional attack on the fundamental rights of citizens
If the passage of Bill 1 by the Alberta Legislature last month demonstrates anything, it’s the contempt in which Premier Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party hold the rule…
Growing
Iris Potato tower The garden is showing increased signs of life, with peas, spinach, beans, and more all sprouting. My potato towers today are showing obvious signs of early success.
An Optimist No More
I am a very lucky human being. I was born into the greatest period for a member of Homo sapiens to be alive, the peak of human civilization—the period following…
My latest: we’ve been here before
Riots across the country. Dozens of them, every night. Blood all over the streets. Broken glass crunching underfoot. Tear gas and smouldering police cars combining to produce a stench that…
June 4:Are we heading for the final act?
This site is designed to find the best sources of news. Alas, this world is short of good news service whether in newspapers, radio or TV. This blog carries Britain’s…