My latest in the Sun: the pandemic “process”
A process. That’s what the Deputy Prime Minister calls you getting the vaccine that will keep you from getting sick, or maybe even dying. “A process.” Chrystia Freeland, who is…
December 2020
Latest leak shows AHS modelling forecasts Intensive Care Units packed with COVID-19 patients by mid-December
In the first unauthorized information leak of December, Alberta’s NDP Opposition revealed yesterday Alberta Health Services case modelling projects about 775 Albertans will be in hospital with COVID-19 in just…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Leveled cats.
Neoliberalism is killing Manitobans
Illustration by Canadian Dimension From schools to hospitals, up and down the province, Manitobans are sitting in confined death traps. As of December 1, 312 people have died from COVID-19.…
End of Year Sale at Leftwingbooks.Net!
What can we say about 2020, that has not already been said? Whether you need some distraction or are looking for ways to understand the meltdown which is contemporary reality,…
‘The Principal Contradiction’ by Torkil Lauesen reviewed by Joshua Moufawad-Paul
available from leftwingbooks.net One of my frustrations with contemporary Marxist philosophy is the way in which the word ‘dialectical’ is often employed like a magical wand to sanctify various relational…
Money Cannot Buy Happiness But …
They say money cannot buy happiness but it certainly can buy food and shelter and education that can make the difference between misery and happiness, not to mention that health…
No Enemies; No Accomplishments
Have you ever read this poem? I hadn’t, until recently. But now it makes sense. Take a moment… No Enemies You have no enemies, you say? Alas! my friend, the…
Can Art Survive the Internet? | TVO.org
Can art survive the internet? Can artists make it in the world of free that’s enabled by it? Author William Deresiewicz explains why those are urgent questions, before, during and…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David MacDonald, Lindsay McLaren, Katherine Scott and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood each examine the Libs’ fiscal update and find that headlines about progressive priorities…
Covid Journal, December 1, 2020
Is your holiday shopping helping to expand economic disparity or support local businesses? it’s a tough call for all, but we need to try to do our thing to keep…
Everyone and Everything
Donald Trump, Eugene Robinson writes, is an ego monster: In his desperation to avoid being forever labeled a loser, Trump is pursuing a futile course of action that only causes…
This Person Hopes to Die at 75, Encourages us to Not Live Forever
It might sounds odd, but a preplanned death at 75 may be a wise decision. Ezekiel J. Emanuel has made a conscious decision to have his life come to a…
Twenty years of www.warrenkinsella.com
Twenty years! I don’t know exactly the day, because I didn’t bother to write it down. And the Wayback Machine website isn’t all that precise. But it does indeed seem…
Talking the Delivery of COVID-19 Vaccines & the Federal Fiscal Update with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Jason Lietaer & Lindsay Maskell. We talked about the delivery of COVID-19 Vaccines, the expectations about when Canadians can…
Political leaders get lots of advice.
It is part of the job. Leaders of all political parties get lots of advice—most of it ignored. Maybe the Toronto Star is not aware of this phenomenon. That must…
With pandemic respiratory disease rampaging virtually unchecked in Alberta, Calgary faces oxygen rationing
In a development that is surely emblematic of the unchecked progress of the novel coronavirus under the United Conservative Party Government of Premier Jason Kenney, Albertans learned yesterday we are…