Who’d a Thunk It?
I saw this old print and it reminded me so much of Erin O’Toole. It depicts a medical procedure in England in centuries past. “By the late 1700s, blowing smoke…
December 2020
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jeremy Samuel Faust, Harlan Krumholz and Rochelle Walensky write about the false – and dangerous – assumption that COVID-19 would pose few risks…
Half a Century of Skillfully Engineered Inequality. Now The Results Are In.
Joe Stiglitz knows a few things about inequality. It was the focus of his doctoral thesis and the mainstay of a career that saw him rise to chief economist for…
Winning social justice victories means bringing power to the table
Activists mobilize to prohibit nuclear weapons, October 22, 2020. Photo by Aude Catimel/ICAN. “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” ―Frederick Douglass To win…
Trump’s Long Goodbye
Donald Trump is living through a long humiliation — mostly by his own doing. Doug Saunders writes: The past six weeks have provided many of us the enjoyable experience of…
All around in circles 2 #nlpoli
December 17 is an auspicious day in Muskrat Falls history. That was the date in 2012 when Kathy Dunderdale stood in front of a group of cheering supporters of the…
All around in circles 2 #nlpoli
December 17 is an auspicious day in Muskrat Falls history. That was the date in 2012 when Kathy Dunderdale stood in front of a group of cheering supporters of the…
All around in circles #nlpoli
December 17 is an auspicious day in Muskrat Falls history. That was the date in 2012 when Kathy Dunderdale stood in front of a group of cheering supporters of the…
When is a rule not a rule? When a maskless minister from Alberta’s United Conservative Party is breaking it
COVID-19 has now killed at least 790 Albertans. It fell to Chief Medical Officer of Health Deena Hinshaw to break the dark news yesterday that 30 COVID-19 deaths had been…
Mr Premier You can still turn this Site C boondoggle around.
Dear Premier Horgan, Ms. Lore and Mr. Rankin You’ve probably already seen this article from the most recent Tyee I’m writing to let you know that I have, too. The…
The Evil we worship…
I came across a disappointing but true story today while playing on the computer. I went to the web site for the Canadian war museum in Ottawa. There, I found…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Hope and Julian Limberg study (PDF) the effects of tax cuts for the rich – concluding that they lead to worsened…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Dec. 15, 2020
Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/updates-15-dec-2020.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and…
Some Frank Talk
I readily admit to being intolerant of childish, narcissistic adults. And never have those defects of character been more evident than during our Covid-19 world crisis. People whining that they…
On non-goals
The combination of Paul Merriman’s appalling use of poll numbers as a measure of COVID success – followed by Scott Moe’s feckless response – has rightly been the subject of…
The Old Doug Ford
Doug Ford recognized the danger of the pandemic. But, Martin Regg Cohn asks, does he understand what’s going on with the climate? Apparently not: Call it the pandemic paradox. The…
Talking COVID-19 Vaccination Photo-Ops & Federal Carbon Tax Changes with Rob Snow
Today I joined Rob Snow on CityNews Ottawa radio’s “The Rob Snow Show” along with Jason Lietaer for the “Political Fix” panel. We talked the number of COVID-19 Vaccination photo-ops…
The Con Monster Erin O’Toole Shows Who He Really Is. Again.
As you may recall, I never believed Erin O'Toole when after he became Con leader he claimed that he had changed. Claimed that after pandering to racists, misogynists, homophobes, and…