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…
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…
A weekend off from the long, daily drive and the treatment certainly seems like a treat these days. On weekends, I get to have an easy morning, leisurely cups of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Word about solid-state batteries out of Toyota City last week created a buzz in the automotive press and got some headlines on social media, but I doubt very many people…
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…
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…