Good to know Doug’s got spare money!
Were we reading the other day that Ontario premier Doug Ford has a rainy-day $12 billion tucked away? That is what you can expect when you have a conservative government.…
December 2020
Jason Kenney’s ineffective COVID-19 strategy mirrors his failing response to world demand for cleaner energy
Memo to United Conservative Party issues managers: Your boss will need to take some time today away from defending his COVID-19 response to attack the New York State pension fund…
December 9: Thou shallt not kill – unless there’s a profit to be made
This is a short one because I have run into some terrible computer problems. I hope to be back among the living in two or three days. American billionaires have…
A reply to B’nai Brith, and Canada’s UN vote
A Palestinian man looks out over settlements in the occupied West Bank. Photo by Anne Paq/ActiveStills. B’nai Brith Canada (BBC) and its agency, the League for Human Rights, claim to…
Overview of UCP’s ‘Provincial Administrative Penalties Act’
Good overview of the UCP’s underhanded kangaroo court law.
I Can Hear the Anti-Vaxxers Now
There was an item in yesterday’s Jerusalem Post about Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. Apparently in the testing the vaccine may have caused the death of two patients, one of whom turned…
The Free Market Myth
Robert Reich writes that “the free market” is a myth. That has been proven true yet again during the pandemic: How have a relative handful of billionaires – whose vast…
Putting Man’s Thumb on the Scale
Some still cannot accept that Earth has entered a new geological epoch, the first one shaped by a single species, man. However the argument against the existence of the Anthropocene…
Who does Winnipeg’s city council work for, anyway?
#Justice4BlackLives rally in Winnipeg, June 5, 2020. Photo by Rebecca Hume. There is no doubt: 2020 has been an absolutely unprecedented year. In Manitoba, the second wave of COVID-19 has…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Marco Ranaldi and Branko Milanovic study the relationship between inequality of inputs and inequality of outcomes – finding in particular that countries with…
In Canada Your Doctor May Tell You to Walk it Off
Doctors in Canada may soon be prescribing the oldest medicine in the world: walking it off. Thanks to the work of family doctor Dr. Melissa Lem in British Columbia the…
Merry Christmas, we mean it, maaaaaan
I give you my annual best-ever Christmas song. You’re welcome.
How many did Trump kill today?
That is not a light at the end of the tunnel on January 20. It is the funeral pyre at the crematorium for all the people that Mr. Trump has…
Will Jason Kenney risk cracks in his UCP coalition by enforcing new COVID-19 measures?
Better late than never, the Kenney Government sharply changed course yesterday and announced much tougher lockdown measures that have the potential to slow the spread of COVID-19. These will include…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Feline festivities.
My latest in the Sun: who gets the vaccine first?
Who goes first? Assuming Canada gets enough of the COVID-19 vaccine anytime soon — a big assumption, given Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s admission that we won’t — who gets to…
With a little help for his friends
Ontario Premier Doug Ford makes an announcement in Etobicoke, October 30, 2020. Photo from Twitter. Under the cover of COVID, Christmas came early this year for the friends of Doug…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Adam Miller writes that it’s more important than ever to protect frontline workers as the prospect of a COVID-19 vaccine approaches. Pat…
Covid Journal, December 8, 2020
Wow. All Corners of Canada’s Con World A Complete Trainwreck Tell me what you make of this headline … We have all of the components of the right-wing apparatus falling…