Dogs! Lots of dogs!
For a delightful change of pace, here’s some of the best dog videos now on the web: Crazy agility by Pink the border collie.. Come for the speed – stay…
November 2020
Saturday Photo: Light at the End of the Tunnel?
The days are getting shorter and shorter–only three weeks to the Solstice, more or less, and the sun around here is rising about 7 a.m. Dark days, indeed. The prospect…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Michael Smithson examines data from 45 countries confirming that any attempt to play off COVID-19 suppression against economic activity is based on a…
Being Online: Facing the Digital Future Together
This is an unedited auto-generated transcript of my talk for LINC home learning professional development, November 28, 2020. All right so for the purpose of a recording and I’ve just…
A Different World
Joe Biden will replace the Trump Clown Show with competent professionals. But, Tony Burman writes, the world has changed a great deal since the advent of Trump — for several…
Gobble gobble
One has a flabby neck, is unattractive, makes unintelligible sounds, and has a very small brain. The other is a turkey. pic.twitter.com/nWavtNMMWf — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 28, 2020
Covid Journal, November 28, 2020
‘Left-wing media’ meme is BS; Disaster Donald on his way out …
Blame stupidity and short-sightedness.
We used to have some control in Canada about who bought and sold our industry. If you are smart enough to realize that you might be desperate for a vaccine…
Musical interlude
Remi Wolf – Hello Hello Hello (Polo & Pan Remix)
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Fraiman discusses how far too many leaders have failed or refused to live up to the title when their authority was needed…
No Easy Task
David Brooks has an interesting column in this morning’s New York Times. Brooks seeks to explain why so many people are open to believing conspiracy theories: We live in a…
Covid Journal, November 24, 2020
If the application of lockdowns are unfair and inconsistent, people will ignore them. Purdue has admitted to being North America’s biggest drug dealer but fines amount to a slap on…
The auditor versus the label salesman.
It might not be a fair fight but Ontario voters are enjoying it. The ups and downs and the tantrums of former label salesman and now premier Doug Ford are…
UCP tries to recast story of premier’s meddling in pandemic response as tale of betrayal by unidentified leaker
Turns out the Kenney Government’s pandemic response has been guided more by political pressure and right-wing ideology than science and expert advice. For weeks Premier Jason Kenney and his army…
Canada is being left behind in the green economy race
Fleet of electric vehicles in Tianjin. China’s EV industry has developed rapidly in recent years, and it currently represents the world’s largest market (1.06 million electric cars sold in 2019).…
Freedom stops when work starts
Share this article: Dmitri Sotnikov Dmitri Sotnikov is a software developer with an interest in progressive politics. Dmitri believes that we must strive for a world with justice and equality…
Future generations will decry what we’re doing
Subsidizing natural gas production by ending industry payments for rights and royalties, while the government is also offering billions in electricity subsidies is indefensible. But the most serious issue is…
The Cancer Diaries, Part 17
Well, it has begun. Today I drove to RVH for my first radiation treatment session, the third stage of my treatment. One hundred forty-one days since my prostate surgery, and…