Covid-19 and the Con Mask Wars
I had hoped, after all that heroic work by our frontline medical workers, and all that isolation misery, that we would be further ahead in our battle to tame COVID-19.…
September 2020
Shorter version: figuratively step on their metaphorical necks until the day after the election
The big difference between Trump conservatives and anti-Trump progressives is the latter have boundaries and the former don’t. The big reason Trump conservatives keep beating anti-Trump progressives is the latter…
ruth bader ginsburg, rest in power
These highlights of Ginsburg’s decisions and dissents on the SCOTUS are a joy to read. I used two sources, and decided to keep the overlap. Many highlight the reason she…
Cruft
Responding to Donald Clark’s excellent article, Let’s move on from ‘Unintelligible Intelligences’ – IQ, Multiple Intelligences, Emotional Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence… “Let’s take this idea further. Koch (2014) claimed that ALL…
Why does Toronto want ranked ballots?
Toronto City Council needs to take a very hard look at ranked ballot voting. It is no panacea. It is a solution for a problem that does not exist. It…
Canadian Freedom and Anti-maskers. Covidiots just don’t get it.
Share this: In this land we call Canada, much has been made about citizens handing over certain freedoms in order to get ourselves out of the Covid-19 pandemic. When it…
Musical interlude
Louise Burns – Just Walk Away
Peter Thiel Met With The Racist Fringe As He Went All In On Trump (repost)
The venture capitalist and Facebook board member staked his reputation on a Trump presidency. Now what does he have to show for it? Four years ago, billionaire venture capitalist and…
Stanley Park to reopen seawall to cyclists and full vehicle access Sep 26
September 18 2020 Stanley Park will reopen to full vehicle access and cyclists will return to the seawall on Saturday, September 26, after more than 5 months of modified access…
The shittiest year ever
NO NO NO NO https://t.co/cr3Xm5GT4Z — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 18, 2020
Where is the best whisky made? Alberta, of course
Alberta is the land of oil and gas, right? And of cowboys and rodeos. And mountains and skiing. No surprises there. But here’s a surprise. It’s also the land of…
Why fixed election dates?
A person wise in the way of politics gave me his insight about fixed election dates. It’s worth a wider audience…
On misleadership
When the COVID-19 pandemic was first declared, there was relatively little pushback against the most extreme (if necessary) steps which were taken out of a lack of knowledge of the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – David Roberts examines a few of the ways to conceptualize the share of responsibility for climate change. And while the most crucial reality…
Pandemic By-Election Shenanigans
With the Throne Speech coming next week there have been lots of rumours surrounding it. Not only are people speculating what will (or won’t) be in the speech itself, many…
Grocery’s long war: Part I
Workers participate in Manitoba’s 1987 Westfair strike. In the summer of that year, grocery store workers at 12 Westfair stores went on a bitter 125-day strike against a company push…
Trudeau’s circle does it again.
It seems as though Justin Trudeau and his circle of friends are immune to learning from past mistakes. They no sooner manage to bury one of their gaffs and they…
Canada drags its feet on international convention against torture
While torture is illegal in Canada, ratifying the UN’s Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) would make Canada accountable…
What Is the Role of Politics In an Increasingly Unstable World?
The Holocene has given way to the Anthropocene. Exactly when and how it happened is the subject of endless debate but it has happened. The economic paradigm of the past…
"An Apprehension of an Ending"
I’m not convinced that we’re watching the end but I’m not confident that what’s playing out before us and our lethargy, even indifference to it, admit of some other future.…