Sparky says: vote, America!
Sparky says: Vote, America! pic.twitter.com/wTku6Agdrq — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 30, 2020
October 2020
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Andrea Doucet, Sophie Mathieu and Lindsey McKay make the case for a parental leave system which improves accessibility and wage replacement rates to…
On The Edge
Everyone knows that Donald Trump lies. But lately, Paul Krugman writes, Trump’s lies are qualitatively different: On Tuesday the White House science office went beyond Trump’s now-standard claims that we’re…
The words that count the most
Yesterday was a really really good day. I won’t bore you with the details, but I went to bed feeling pretty good. As I usually do, I took a peek…
The Good Government.
While Americans remain mired in arguing the seriousness of the rapidly spreading novel coronavirus, Canadians are basking in the benevolence of government largess to help fight it. Seeing finance minister…
Earth scientist David Hughes, latter-day Cassandra, predicts completed TMX will see extra losses for every barrel shipped to Asia
Earth scientist David Hughes has become well known in certain circles as the Cassandra of the oilpatch. Cassandra, as the classically educated will recall, was the priestess of Apollo cursed…
Palate cleanser
I’m so nervous about the US election, I can hardly think about anything else, and yet thinking about the US election does absolutely no good at all for anyone including…
Cancelling Tommy Douglas
If I had to choose my favourite Canadian, I would without hesitation choose Tommy Douglas, the man most responsible for Medicare, one of Canadians’ two most popular institutions. I’m not…
Forbes Magazine and Our question: Are these the portable microwave weapons criminals are using in Canada ?
The Microwave Weapons That Could Explain criminals in Canada possibly attacking people with impunityhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/10/20/the-microwave-weapons-that-could-explain-why-havana-syndrome-report-is-not-being-released/?sh=2296...
Forbes Magazine and Our question: Are these the portable microwave weapons criminals are using in Canada ?
The Microwave Weapons That Could Explain criminals in Canada possibly attacking people with impunity How these weapons work – There is no “conspiracy theory” about these weapons being deployed against…
My latest: the political anniversary everyone wants to forget
An anniversary happened last week. You can be forgiven for missing it. That’s because no one really celebrated it. The Canadian federal general election happened on October 21, 2019. It…
The Cancer Diaries, Part 12
Well, that was easy. Relatively, so. Last Monday I got to remove my catheter all by myself. Not the sort of thing one looks forward to — doing the removing,…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Mariano Zafra and Javier Salas offer a handy visual aid as to how COVID-19 spreads indoors – showing that masking is a…
I Have My Doubts
Max Boot writes that it’s time to destroy the Republican Party: I have watched with incredulity the GOP’s descent into collective madness. Many Republicans I know began by holding their…
Covid Journal, October 29, 2020
Take Your Vitamin D; Covid KO’s the Flu.
The kid who couldn’t.
Sam Oosterhoff MPP, is the youngest person, at 19, to be elected to the Ontario legislature. He might also be the MPP with the most to learn. The member for…
Public inquiry, conducted in secret, gets another extension to find elusive foreign funders of ‘anti-Alberta’ campaigns
Apparently commissioner Steve Allan still isn’t having any luck finding those sinister foreign funders of “anti-energy” campaigns. But don’t worry, the government of Alberta has given the head of its…
Electing Biden isn’t enough
In 2016, Americans embarrassed themselves by electing Donald Trump as their president. Then Trump took over and has embarrassed them ever since. If they want to regain the world’s respect,…
Oct 28: The savagery of wealth
The UN has warned that we are very close to starving to death a whole generation of children in Yemen. Onward Christian soldiers. After I read about this, I came…