Nov.20: sinning and repenting.
When I began this blog many years ago – and until recently – it had a huge audience over much of the world. Canadians were small potatoes. But that audience…
November 2020
BC government raises stink over violations at sewage plant emptying into Cowichan River
The BC Ministry of Environment has issued a “non-compliance advisory letter” for several violations related to a municipal sewage-treatment plant that empties into the Cowichan River, a review by sixmountains.ca…
Musical interlude
Interpol – If You Really Love Nothing
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Shannon Vanraes reports that Manitoba has become the latest jurisdiction reduced to triaging patients in their cars due to a lack of resources…
Our Own Morons
Erin O’Toole is trying to put a softer face on the Conservative Party, assuming that strategy will build a big tent party. But, Bob Hepburn writes, he’s casting himself as…
Are We Serious About Human Health? The Rhetoric and Gestures Say Yes, But The Evidence Says No
The government pretends to care deeply and profoundly about human health, using police state measures in a time of crisis, justified by their supposed great concern for health. Yet, the…
See no; Hear no; Speak no solutions.
The three wise monkeys are alive and well and hiding from reality in Ottawa. At a time when a recent Environics poll shows that 64 per cent of Canadians support…
As COVID-19 cases soar, UCP MLA tells constituents the pandemic is behind us
Alberta set a new daily record for COVID-19 yesterday, with 1,105 confirmed new cases reported over the previous 24 hours. No fear, though. Apparently the worst of the pandemic is…
Want to defund the police? One gigantic problem: they don’t care
Share this article: At this point, we are all aware of what it means to defund the police. It simply means moving money and tasks away from police departments and…
Working less—one answer to COVID economics
As the pandemic continues to batter the economy and unemployment increases, it’s time to take yet another look at an approach to work that will maintain high employment while improving…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Nov. 17, 2020
NOTE: If you send the updates to Jay Chase, please stop, as he has been released! Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/updates-17-nov-2020.pdf NYC ABC, along with…
Green Homes: Best Practices
After more than 50 years of experimentation and development in the field, done by literally millions of people, and after 35 years of my own research, I would offer this…
More Faux Left Follies
Letter to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives I used to consider CounterPunch, Canadian Dimension, DemocracyNow! and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives among my most trusted sources for news…
Pardon me?
Pardon me? No, pardon you! Me on Sun Media, on the real reason Trump is desperate to hold onto power!
Andreas Malm’s new pamphlet on climate, corona, and communism fails to ignite
Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century Andreas Malm Verso, 2020 One of the left’s richest traditions is the polemical pamphlet written amidst crisis. Who can forget…
Covid 19 And the Killer Cons
It’s hard to believe, and even harder to accept, how much things have changed since COVID-19 started killing Canadians. Back in that fatal Spring we were united. We followed doctor’s…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Umair Haque discusses the U.S.’ extreme aversion to public goods (based primarily on a desire to exclude large numbers of people from…
Covid Journal, November 19, 2020
Inconsistency seems more contagious than Covid itself. Is it fair that big boxes don’t have to implement contact tracing or extra measures while small businesses get penalized if they don’t?…
Right-wing populism and the realignment of working-class politics in Canada
Illustration by Canadian Dimension “I heard about the closure on television on the six o’clock news. Then, a couple weeks later they phoned me up and said ‘you got a…
Republicans and Trump
Most Republicans are sticking with Donald Trump. That’s bad news. But, E.J. Dionne writes, you can see the reason they have made that choice by looking at the election results:…