Banksy Hits the Tube
Guerrilla artist, Banksy, has released a video showing him taking the Covid-19 fight to London’s Underground. Dressed as a disinfectant crew member, he boards a car and has at it.
July 2020
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Patrick Brethour, Caroline Alphonso and Dave McGinn write about the no-win situation facing parents being pushed back to work by governments who…
The Fight to Change ‘Swastika Trail’: The Gloves Are Off
Full Canadian Jewish Record story here. July 14, 2020 – By STEVE ARNOLD A new campaign to change the name of Swastika Trail in the township of Puslinch, Ont. will…
Temporary Demotion of Democratic Norms in Lethbridge
Working in politics and for elected officials is an experience where you get to do many things and hone many different skills. From research, to getting to know policy, budgeting…
Krugman – How Americans Drank Away Their Children’s Future
It’s hard to argue with Paul Krugman’s logic on how America’s leaders bungled the Covid-19 pandemic and why its school kids will be left to pay the price. A brief…
Re-Thinking Hydro-Electricity
Most of the electricity British Columbians use is hydro-electricity. BC has two advantages: mountains and location, namely the west “wet” coast. We get a lot of moisture-laden air coming off…
Legally Adulting Online: A Virtual Town Hall
Highlights from our very first Legally Adulting Online last week. Thanks to everyone who tuned in and joined us. We received a lot of questions and covered a lot of…
The Fiscal Deficit, Modern Monetary Theory and Progressive Economic Policy
Modern Monetary Theory or MMT has crept in from the academic margins to become an influential doctrine in progressive policy circles in the United States. Both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie…
Total Incompetence
COVID is racing across the United States like wildfire. The country is an international pariah. Michelle Goldberg writes: As our country plunges into a black hole of unchecked illness, death…
The Jakarta Method: How to destabilize and control the Third World
The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World Vincent Bevins Public Affairs, 2020 Today, the “First World” typically refers to imagined “Western” countries…
How do we pay the mortgage?
It would have helped last week if finance minister Bill Morneau had paid some attention to the deficit side of our financial snapshot. The problem is that to many Canadians…
From us to WE: The Dickensian ‘Big Society’ seems to be back again, if it ever left
Who can forget the “Big Society”? Just about everyone, it turns out. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Photo: Justin Trudeau/Flickr). “The Big Society,” cooked up by a senior aide to former…
Talking the Trudeau WE apology & Phase Three of Re-Opening with Graham Richardson
Today I joined Graham Richardson on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison & Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the Prime Ministers apology for the…
On McQuaig’s Sport and Prey
Linda McQuaig’s newest book, The Sport and Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth, is a fast read full of local history and written as history…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Mariana Mazzucato and Robert Skidelsky propose a new economic framework in which our elected governments actually set priorities and ensure that development is…
Cuba in the Last Stretch of the Pandemic
An emergency contingent of Cuban doctors and nurses arrive in Milan, Italy to help battle the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, March 22, 2020. Cuba is only a few days…
High Crimes and Misdemeanors. What Just Happened?
Trump waited until Friday night to announce he had commuted his buddy, Roger Stone’s, prison sentence literally on the eve of the dirty trickster’s start of a 40-month prison sentence.…
Highly-scientific poll™️ on WE scandal
Vote now, vote often! This week’s #LPC #WEGate talking points: — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 13, 2020
Covid Journal, July 13, 2020
Tracking Trump’s Twitter Tirades.
Trudeau’s WE Strike Three
Normally summers are very quiet times around Ottawa, and for good reason. MPs head home, people take vacation and generally it’s a period of quiet and a time that people…