Public health over profit: Covid-19 is surging under Jason Kenny
Share this article: “The cure cannot be worse than the itself,” said Trump back in March. It seems that Alberta premier Jason Kenny and Health Minister Tyler Shandro have taken…
November 2020
Books by Maoist Philosopher J. Moufawad-Paul (JMP) at Leftwingbooks.net
Leftwingbooks.net is very happy to now be carrying all of the tiles by J. Moufawad-Paul, both those published by Kersplebedeb and those that have been published by Zer0 Books. J.…
Eating in lockdown: The saga of the Popeye’s Sandwich
I’ve long liked that chicken from Popeye’s. So much better than KFC. A spicy option, quality fries, biscuits, mac and cheese, corn on the cob — so good. There really…
Canada’s Inability To Produce Covid Vaccines Is A Wakeup Call
Why Canada can’t make its own COVID-19 vaccine — and how to ‘fix’ the problem before the next pandemic By Alex Boyd Calgary Bureau Wed., Nov. 25, 2020 updateArticle…
On anti-precaution
Jennie Russell and Charles Rusnell’s bombshell report offers an alarming – if perhaps not surprising – look at how Jason Kenney’s UCP has refused to do anything more than the…
A Criminal Then And Now
Yesterday, Donald Trump pardoned Mike Flynn. During Robert Mueller’s inquiry and Trump’s impeachment, Trump signaled to his associates that, if they refused to cooperate, he’d take care of them. Trump…
Politics Over Public Health
I’m no fan of Premier Kenney in Alberta. I didn’t like him when he first emerged to run for MP, and his actions as an MP disgusted me most of…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren and Michael Stepner study a myriad of issues about COVID-19 and its public reaction – with…
In Italy, Art is Used to Block Illegal Fishing
It’s well known that industrial fishing is bad for the environment and bad for the fishers involved in it. A local fisherman, Paolo Fanciulli, had enough of the industrial fishing…
My latest in the Sun: the Brits and Americans are getting the vaccine soon – but not you
What if they developed a vaccine — and no Canadians were going to get it? That, incredibly, seems to be the current reality: within days, Canada’s two closest allies —…
Parsing Pierre Poilievre.
Pierre Poilievre, conservative member of parliament for Carleton electoral district in the Ottawa area of Ontario, has described himself as a political junkie. He was born and educated in Alberta,…
Plague Update: Moe Lied, People Died
In short, they lied. Premier Moe is a damned dirty liar, and people are dying as a result.#COVID19SK https://t.co/X6jyZPjgKP — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) November 26, 2020 Yet his death…
Nov. 24 Just Thinkin’….
The text below is the third copy of the blog I prepared. Three of those copies immediately appeared on the screen – then disappeared, seemingly to cancel my account of…
Grocery’s long war: Part II
A group of Dominion employees block the entrance to the parking lot as they strike at the Blackmarsh Road location in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Photo by Andrew Waterman/The Telegram. In…
On limited consultations
While we’ll find out this afternoon what (if anything) the Moe Saskatchewan Party will do in terms of action against COVID-19, Jason Warick’s report on its consultation process doesn’t offer…
We’ve Seen It All Before
“ are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against…
On shared obligations
There’s been plenty of attention paid to the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s list of the sites of known community spread of COVID-19, including questions as to both the categories used and…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Umair Haque highlights how European and North American states have failed to control the coronavirus compared to other developed countries. And Ian Austen…
A Myth Buster
For nearly fifty years now, we have been buying the myth that the private sector can do anything better than the government. The pandemic has exposed that myth for the…