The irony, the hypocrisy
There’s a letter on the council consent agenda that will either make you shake your head in wonder at the brash irony of it, or laughing at a writer who…
December 2020
Pretty much a dud, but still alive, Alberta’s ‘Energy War Room’ stumbles along after a year
Alberta’s “Energy War Room” was a year old yesterday and while the cash lavished on the self-described purveyor of a “fact-based narrative about Canadian energy” isn’t the worst investment ever…
BEING MERRY IN A COVID CHRISTMAS
This year is so tiring – everyone I know feels exhausted and …. spent. On the other hand, many of those same people have put a lot of energy into…
How Serious Are We?
The Liberals have finally come up with a broad climate change policy. Adam Radwanski writes: For five years since their Paris Agreement commitment to cut greenhouse-gas emissions 30 per cent…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Tracy Fuller talks to Emily Oster about the process people can follow in minimizing COVID risks in the absence of full information. And…
Beware Mr. Covid
It has been several months since my last post. Originally I had anticipated but a short break,, but events conspired against me and I wound up in the hospital for…
Saturday Photo: What I Can’t Find This Year…
This is going to be a Christmas not like any other I’ve experienced, but we’re healthy and we have more than enough to eat, so I shouldn’t complain. But I…
Who’s paying for the bitumen Trudeau ships?
It struck me, listening to the news from Ottawa on Friday, this whole plan for $170 a ton for carbon by 2030 is bullshit. Who is going to pay for…
Anomaly
In the last 28 days, British Columbia has reported half the number of new Covid-19 cases as Alberta. Yet during those four weeks, more people in BC have died from…
Musical interlude
Tracey Thorn – Sister
Covid-19: Is It Time To Start Scaring Canadians?
There's a sign in my neighbourhood just by the closed ice rink that reads as follows: "THIS IS WHERE WE WILL SING TOGETHER AGAIN. SEE YOU WHEN IT'S SAFE." But…
A Secret Slave
This is an amazing story about Lola, a woman who was a slave to an American family in the last century, and the award winning journalist raised by her. He…
It’s over. Trump has lost – in court, and with the people.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an audacious lawsuit by Texas that had asked the court to throw out the presidential election results in four battleground states captured…
To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate: Which Parent Decides?
BY GARRY WISE, SIMRAN BAKSHI, AND JOSHUA PRIZANT Reprinted from The Lawyer’s Daily There has been considerable encouraging news regarding the imminent release of effective COVID-19 vaccines. While this is…
Covid Journal, December 11, 2020
Tracking the Covid bonanza; Alberta is in trouble.
Canada is choosing corporate property rights over the health of billions
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned recently that ‘vaccine nationalism’ is moving at full speed, threatening the health of billions in the Global South. Photo from Shutterstock. The World Trade…
Growing cultures of despair in Middle America
Hillbilly Elegy Ron Howard Netflix, 2020 American director Ron Howard’s latest film, Hillbilly Elegy, released on Netflix in late November, is the latest Trump-era attempt to capture the decay of…