The Conservatives are hostile towards those we need the most
Share this: While the coronavirus pandemic started spreading across the globe, many governments were caught off guard and had to act quickly. Those countries that elected to put their top…
October 2020
Donald Trump and the Evita Complex
Donald Trump might have been spewing Covid in every direction, but he just couldn't stay away from that balcony. He had to be there. He had to feel the love…
I got a ten! Happy bird day!
Room Rater gave me a ten! Canadian Thanksgiving dinner. Love the hutch. Assorted objects. Art. Prefer the Pinot Grigio, but it’s still a 10/10 @kinsellawarren https://t.co/l7c9yBsgTd pic.twitter.com/G5g3ftmNkP — Room Rater…
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Ms Soapbox and her family would like to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. To say that it’s been different this year would be an understatement, but we can all be…
The (almost forgotten) October Crisis
In October 1970, Canada was looking pretty good, at least in the eyes of a 14-year-old boy, mainly me. An avid newspaper reader in the early stages of a long…
Why Michigan? It Was No Fluke.
Why did heavily armed domestic terrorists storm Michigan’s statehouse? Why did a group of terrorists, members of Michigan’s Wolverine Militia, plot to kidnap and put on trial their governor, Gretchen…
Team Biden: Democrats Represent A Continuation Of Neoliberal Corporate-Fascist Elite Rule
What, in reality, would Team Biden and a Democratic White House represent? Let’s cut through the noise and fog and illusions, and deal with reality here, for a change. Team…
On non-disclosure
Much of the pushback against any discussion of Scott Moe’s patterns of drinking and driving, vehicle accidents and general refusal to own up to anything of the sort boils down…
Lindsey Has Caught "Mad Trump Disease"
Lindsey Graham figures South Carolina is just fine with black people or at least some blacks that may or may not actually exist. In a candidate forum with the South…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Matthew Yglesias discusses how the Republicans avoid having to answer for antisocial plans (such as wanting to limit access to health insurance…
COVID-19 is taking a heavy toll on Toronto’s homeless
Over 9,200 people in the city of Toronto meet one of the definitions of homelessness. Photo by Terry Ozon/Flickr. The following is an excerpt from “Cooperative Funding: An Evaluation of…
Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone
Whether you celebrate Thanksgiving today or the more conventional holiday tomorrow, it’s good to give thanks on this weekend. We should be thankful for our families, even if it is…
Kamala In Westmount
Dan Bilefsky is a Canadian correspondent for the New York Times. He grew up in Westmount, where Ms. Harris and her mother and sister moved after her mother divorced her…
Bring Back the Salons
Today if someone mentions a “salon” you probably think about a haircut or manicure. But in the 18th century, prior to the French Revolution, salons were the focus of civil…
Social assistance: Do higher benefit levels lead to higher caseloads?
As part of my PhD thesis, I did some statistical analysis in which I asked the question: “Do higher social assistance benefit levels lead to higher caseloads?” I have recently…
The only fair vote is a run-off vote.
Nobody claims first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting is perfect. What it gives us is a means to get things done. It is fast, efficient and trusted. It is the solution to the…
Covid Journal, October 11, 2020
Events in Michigan last week are disturbing on so many levels and may be pointing to a bigger crisis coming our way if Biden/Harris win in November.
Something to think about…..
James Hamblin kicks off “Clean: The New Science of Skin” with a confession: He virtually stopped showering years ago. Hamblin, a physician and staff writer for The Atlantic, still sprinkles…
Young Ben Harper gets a well-heeled start in politics, thanks to dear old dad’s former lieutenant
Give Ben Harper’s old man his due: he got his son a better first job in Alberta than the elder Mr. Harper’s pop got him. Readers with functioning short-term memories…
Trudeau government drops the Covid-19 ball again, failing to warn of possible airborne transmission
With both the U.S. CDC and World Health Orginization warning that SARS-Cov-2 may be transmitted by airborne aerosols, Canada is once again a day late and a dollar short with…