Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Cadesky writes about the psychology behind adherence to – and deviation from – the social distancing rules needed to keep us all…
2020
A Plague Nation
I wonder if Americans realize that is how their country is seen by the rest of the world, in no small measure thanks to their having elected a raging racist…
To mask or not to mask…
Just now Inderveer Mahal: The goal with a pandemic isn’t to remain consistent; it’s to respond to new information. We Canadians need to allow our experts to be fluid with…
Reflections on a Dangerous Moment
This weekend I celebrated my 41st birthday and yeah, I’m getting old. The signs are everywhere, beyond the date on my birth certificate & the fact that I’m getting more…
Where Do Blog Post Ideas Come From?
Someone asked me by email, do you have any advice on how to come up with blog post ideas? I recently launched an informational website, so far I have around…
Episode 55: Alberta Parks need to be protected and expanded, not closed and privatized.
As Environment & Parks Minister Jason Nixon moves forward with his plans to downgrade, close or privatize 164 provincial parks, outdoor enthusiast Annalise Klingbeil joins Dave Cournoyer on the Daveberta…
rip christo. there will never be another.
I was so very sad to hear that the artist Christo has died at the age of 84. I felt so incredibly fortunate to still be living in NYC when…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of June 1, 2020
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of June 1, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jun…
Facing our plague: COVID-19 and Albert Camus
A woman sits alone at a bus stop in New York City. Photo by Nickolay Romensky. In 1947, Albert Camus published The Plague—La Peste in the original French—a novel about…
President No More
Robert Reich writes that the Trump presidency is over: You’d be forgiven if you hadn’t noticed. His verbal bombshells are louder than ever, but Donald J Trump is no longer…
Ways to Reduce Police Violence
vote This past week saw Americans out on the streets en masse to protest police violence, in particular race-based discrimination practiced by police throughout the nation. Non-white individuals get harassed…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of June 1, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 1, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Going to work sick was a sign of loyalty. Now that it’s…
Have a happy insurrection.
From Hong Kong to Washington, from Los Angeles to Minneapolis, it is a time of insurrection. It boils over with the night and it rests and renews in the day.…
UPDATE-1: There has been no word from any DC protester since the White House entered creep mode at 1AM #dcblackout
The most intense protests in Washington D.C.’s history just fell silent. At 1AM EST the White House entered creep mode, and all live streams and communications with the protesters there…
The facts of the case #nlpoli
From the start of the pandemic, the provincial government took decisions for political reasons, not medical ones. It continues to do so. It is clear that the provincial government has…
Jason Kenney’s bloviations about medical matters may have found a friendly audience south of the Medicine Line
Stuff UCPers Say! Epidemiologists and other scientific types may not like it very much when Alberta Premier Jason Kenney equates COVID-19 with influenza, but at least Fox News seems to…
Journalists under attack
In his daily CNN newsletter, Brian Stelter gives a summary of some of the attacks made on journalists over the last few days in the George Lloyd protests across the…
George Floyd – What can I add?
It keeps happening, over and over and over again. Rodney King, Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, with plenty before, in between, and sadly I fear, more to come. Why? I think…
Jason Kenney’s Miniscule Pandemic Bump
He’s tried everything from rolling up his shirtsleeves and pointing at graphs to quoting Franklin Roosevelt (“we have nothing to fear but fear itself”), but still Albertans refuse to give…