The prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet, isn’t pulling any punches. “Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should…
The Covid-19 global pandemic & the economic crisis that followed from it has been hard on everyone. We’ve seen millions of people lose their jobs, certain industries shuttered and so…
One thing that history has proven is that economic disruptions, bubbles bursting, recessions, depressions, always leave scars. As economist and author, James Kenneth Galbraith, son of the legendary John K.…
As evidence of Donald Trump’s utter incompetence continues to pile up, he screams one word: Obamagate. Michelle Goldberg writes: Recently people on the right have started pushing a ludicrous pseudo-scandal…
How many times now have we seen prime minister Justin Trudeau pop out of Rideau Cottage with another package worth billions to offer succor to this group of Canadians or…
Does anyone remember the $2-million “review” of Alberta Health Services by Ernst & Young launched a year ago by the United Conservative Party Government? Health Minister Tyler Shandro and Alberta…
Is this Stablegate? The Canadian Taxpayers Federation wants to know why Justin Trudeau and his Liberals aren’t reining in equine identity theft. The Twittersphere exploded yesterday when CTF Federal Director…
I recently had a flashback to December 2019, where I was thinking about 2020. With the New Year just over the horizon, I was wondering if an even year would…
I recently had a flashback to December 2019, where I was thinking about 2020. With the New Year just over the horizon, I was wondering if an even year would…
I recently had a flashback to December 2019, where I was thinking about 2020. With the New Year just over the horizon, I was wondering if an even year would…
Justin Trudeau speaks with Colombian President Iván Duque at the United Nations, Tuesday, September 25, 2018. Photo from the Twitter account of Justin Trudeau. One week ago, a former Canadian…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board argues that Canada has put far too few resources toward actually stopping the spread of the…
A car battery that won’t need replacement for a million miles or 20 years, whichever comes first, might be coming to Tesla. Last year, a team from the Dalhousie University…
Industries are trying to adapt to the Covid-19 pandemic. CNN has a look at how luxury automaker Bentley is coping. They’ve found a way to implement social distancing in their…
May 13 2020 The Vancouver Park Board will delay the annual opening of its five outdoor pools and will not immediately provide lifeguards at its nine bathing beaches while conducting…
A comment on my article at The Tyee is repeated here along with some hints about how dollars might have influenced reporting on IPPs by members of the corporate media.
A man wearing a facemask sits on the subway. Photo by Jacques Paquier/Flickr. This is the second in a seven-part, multi-week series of commentary on the COVID-19 crisis entitled WHAT…
#Snowbirds over #yqr pic.twitter.com/uTeQ9phl2u — Saskboy from #SocialDistancing (@saskboy) May 14, 2020 CAF Snowbirds were over Regina and Saskatoon today on their trip to Cold Lake, Alberta.
Myn Bee Farnazo, a Medical Technologist at the Provincial Hospital of South Cotabato, is assisted in correctly wearing her PPE before entering an isolation room. Photo by Louie Pacardo/UN Women.…
Covid-19 has focused a lot of attention on meat packing plants and the high-levels of infection experienced by their workers. We’ve had a few outbreaks in Canada, two of them…
