Covid Journal, July 17, 2020
After 4 weeks of home-schooling my child, I’m a self-appointed expert on education. Since I’ve seen very little by way of ideas about how to make our schools safe and…
July 2020
Leadership and legacies.
This was prodded by a reader. He asked me to search my mind for leaders of Canada’s federal parties and determine what I would consider their legacy to the country.…
What’s making Ottawa’s environment minister suddenly give the Vista coal mine proposal the fish eye?
Yesterday we learned that Jonathan Wilkinson, the federal environment minister, is reconsidering a decision he made in December to leave it up to the industry-funded Alberta Energy Regulator to decide…
Aguirre
About 15 minutes in Already, he knows he is in Hell. Krause Kinski’s face carries all the f!ckin’ suffering in the world.
Nikiforuk On Our Deadly Pursuit of Exponential Growth
I am tired of writing about the perils and pitfalls of perpetual exponential growth so obsessively pursued by our political leadership. It seems so obvious that it’s tempting to think…
Fake list of COVID-19 ‘wisdom’ attributed to Dr. Bonnie Henry making rounds online.
A warning to those quick to hit the “share” button on social media A warning to those quick to hit the “share” button on social media: A list purporting to…
On foreign interference
Of course, while Scott Moe is accepting the plans of pseudo-separatists to hand Saskatchewan over to Jason Kenney, it’s also worth asking what he’s getting in return for his subservience.…
On meritless demands
Mitchell Anderson is right to question why Jason Kenney is so obsessed with betting the pensions of every Albertan on dirty fossil fuels. And that goes doubly when his government’s…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – German Lopez surveys the growing body of research showing how masks help to slow the spread of COVID-19. John Michael McGrath points…
The Day After: Extraction
Anacortes Refinery (Marathon), on the north end of March Point southeast of Anacortes, Washington, United States. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The Day After: Extraction marks the fifth installment in an…
On Learning History
I made a little history quiz, just for fun, for people to see how much they know about Canada’s history of horrific treatment of Indigenous Peoples as well as our…
Hot Enough For Ya?
Heat could be the big environmental issue of this decade. The Earth is getting hotter. I think we all realize that. The land is getting hotter. The air is heating…
#TBT: can you spot why I saved this?
From 1988 or so.
My latest: Trudeau-titlements
Entitlements. You remember that word, don’t you? David Dingwall, a Liberal politician, once said that he was “entitled to his entitlements.” Dingwall uttered those fateful words before a Parliamentary committee,…
July 16: Back in the saddle again! —– I hope.
This site had a terrible crash over a week or so ago. But by means I don’t understand it is suddenly alive again. And this is a good time to…
Eating off the Hill: Burger’s Priest comes to Ottawa
The Burger’s Priest began as a small streetfront operation on Queen East and Coxwell that usually had a line out the door for its delicious burgers, with its religious theme…
Just Wear A Mask
That is the message, simple and direct, delivered by CNN’s Becky Anderson: Somehow, I doubt her message will resonate with the unhinged who have emerged from their lairs during the…
Doing Their Damnedest
All over the world, the Right has gone to war against masks. Consider what has happened in Britain. Owen Jones writes in The Guardian: “A monstrous imposition!” is how our…
Ford follows mentor Trump.
From the low of being booed at the Raptors’ celebration in Toronto last year, Ontario premier Doug Ford feels it is time to hear some applause. After all the exposure…
Apparently desperate, health minister tells College of Physicians and Surgeons it can’t let doctors quit
Tyler Shandro’s on fire! Not in a good way, though. There was a strong signal yesterday that Alberta’s health minister has completely lost control of the fight he’s picked with…