Musical interlude
Kim Petras – Heart To Break
2020
Pallister’s Austerity Measures Will Weaken Manitoba’s COVID-19 Recovery
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister speaks during the province’s COVID-19 update at the Manitoba legislature in Winnipeg, March 30, 2020. Photo by John Woods. Over the last few weeks, it has…
Masks and Rubber Gloves are Fine But Don’t Forget the Weed.
Yeah, weed. Marijuana. It might just help you fend off Covid-19. Cannabis extracts are showing potential in making people more resistant to the novel coronavirus, says an Alberta researcher leading…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Irfan Dhalla argues that we have a choice between merely containing COVID-19 and outright eradicating it – and that we’ll be far better…
Moral bankruptcy in a time of “plague”
20,000 children die a day of hunger, and nobody notices, nobody makes a peep: outcry is basically zero. But a new strain of the flu (statistically less dangerous than…
Quebec’s Risky Scholastic Return
We’ve reached the point during the Covid-19 pandemic where governments are starting to have deeper conversations about re-opening things and re-starting some economic activities that have been shut down since…
Covid Journal, May 8, 2020
Remembering VE Day; Should Dividends Be Distributed First to Essential Employees?
Republican Cruelty
The devastation the coronavirus has wrought has come home today with the lastest unemployment statistics. The New York Times reports that, in April, Americans lost 20.5 million jobs. But Republicans…
We Need a Citizens’ Assembly For a Just Transition
Over 300,000 people took to the streets of New York on September 21, 2014 to demand action on climate change. Photo by John Minchillo/Flickr. The social movements that have so…
The Great Canadian Gun Con.
Watching that one-time cop, now Canada’s public safety minister, Bill Blair, blather on about guns is annoying. The liberal plan to do something about the proliferation of guns in our…
Jason Kenney calls Elizabeth May, Yves-François Blanchet ‘un-Canadian,’ accuses them of ‘blaming the victim’
Now that Premier Jason Kenney has declared it “un-Canadian” to say oil is dead, I wonder if it’s OK to admit Alberta’s fossil fuel industry is on the ropes? Probably.…
Social Distancing Strategy
If you get hit it’s your own fault!
May 7: The worst – but with worse to come.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/07/i-made-millions-last-debt-crisis-rich-win-coronavirus-fair-tax And here’s an unusual source to understand our debt crisis. – and to warn us that it is going to get worse unless we get serious about taxing the…
A Good First Step. Now…
Ottawa and the provinces have struck a deal to boost the pay of essential workers. Together they’re going to cough up four billion dollars to top up the near-slave wages…
How Many are Too Many or Is It Rude to Ask?
One of the toughest parts of leading a government during this pandemic is having to make “life or death” decisions. It pits the lives of your citizens against the market…
Defeat of a Dirty Military Incursion into Venezuela on a Sunday Morning
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair/Counterpunch. In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 3, speedboats left the Colombian coastlines and headed toward Venezuela. These boats had no authorization to cross…
Bad-Asses Wanted
Sometimes you have to be a little bit bad-ass – just to be a decent person, and do what must be done to help and protect others. Gandhi was…
George Monbiot Gives Michael Moore One Upside the Head.
“Planet of the Humans” isn’t Michael Moore’s film. He is, however, the executive producer of the sort-of documentary and its main promoter. And he should really know better. Now George…
Seven Years. You?
I was going through some papers and stumbled across my little hound’s American Kennel Club registration forms. Turns out he’s seven years old, going on eight. I thought he was…
Uy skweyul siem nu siiyeyu! Good day my respected friends!
Good day my respected friends! It’s Qwustenuxun again with another answer to another great question. But first, a short word from Jacqueline Ronson, lead reporter for The Discourse Cowichan…