Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Maxwell Smith, Ross Upshur and James Downar warn us against mistaking a temporarily flattened curve for a final victory over the spread…
2020
Zen And The Art Of Gorilla-Watching
Try it sometime. You might like it. Recommend this Post
Video Calls: Communication In A Hyper-Connected & Deeply Dissociated Society
Thoughtful commentators to the Smithsonian and BBC recently “recommended limiting video calls to only those that are necessary. Petriglieri adds that positioning the video screen to your side may make…
Too much sadness
Abbigail Cowbrough, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, playing the bagpipes in honor of the victims of the Nova Scotia massacre, just a few days ago on HMCS Fredericton. She herself was…
Disaster Capitalism at Work in Manitoba
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister at the 2017 Canada Summer Games. Photo from Flickr. One misstep from disaster While many will escape the worst health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic currently…
#TBT
#TBT: me and Rockin’ Al, upon my call to the bar in 1989. (The legal bar. Not the other kind.)
Covid Journal, April 30, 2020
Change is coming. Will anxious opponents to lockdown and house arrest push out sooner than the politicians want us to or will we actually be able to push for real,…
We Need Metrics
I’ve been impressed by Doug Ford’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. But Martin Regg Cohn has me rethinking my evaluation. Ford’s Achilles Heel — like the Mighty Moron’s south of…
The Communist Necessity, 2nd Edition
available from leftwingbook.s.net “There was a time when we proclaimed that we were part of a beautiful and fragmented chaos of affinity groups, conflicted organizations, disorganized rebels, all of whom…
Some people never learn.
Writing about the ministry of education in Ontario yesterday reminded me of the time in the early 1980s when I complained, loudly, that Dr. Bette Stephenson, then minister of education,…
I Sat On This All Day. Okay, Here It Is.
A choral group consisting of Toronto physicians, “Voices Rock Medicine” – men need not apply – singing “Rise Again.” And, Vancouver’s offering, the Phoenix Chamber choir. Is it just me…
Should we welcome Michelle Rempel Garner home with a festive serving of Oklahoma’s official state meal?
Did you know Oklahoma has an official state meal? The State Legislature in Oklahoma City designated the repast as an official state symbol in 1988. And, I must say, it…
Randy Rainbow and the Mad Doctor Trump
Donald Trump isn't playing the mad doctor any longer, and suggesting that you can cure COVID-19 by injecting disinfectant into your veins, or shoving a powerful light up your rear…
Everything will be fine
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Justin Trudeau and the War to Save Canada
Justin Trudeau's last two months must have seemed to him like two years.For not only has he had to lead the war against COVID-19, and try to stave off economic…
The Conservative Dilemma in One Tweet
Just as the Green Party got some interesting positive news for their leadership race, it seems that the bad keeps pouring in for the Conservatives around their leadership race. It’s…
My top ten albums. Now stop tagging me.
I keep getting tagged by people – including Emma Kinsella – about this top ten albums thing. To save you and me some time, here are all of them, in…
Covid Journal, April 29, 2020
Loblaws reports record revenue but continues to dodge taxes. Small businesses that pay all taxes are closing by the thousands. Buy local. Save our cities. Save our economy.
Work and Workaholism: Puritanism, and A Day Off
This morning when I got up, feeling exhausted again from the on-going 30-year stint of sleeplessness and insomnia, I thought, I should take a day off – considering I pretty…
The Surprising Green Saviour?
The fight against Covid-19 has sidelined many things that we would normally be worried about, and rightfully so. It’s amazing to think about some of the things our political circles…