Jason Kenney’s Fight with Alberta’s Doctors
“The crisis we have in health care, rural included, is a void of leadership by the UCP government. They were voted in with a majority government, but do not seem…
2020
Decolonizing the Zombie Apocalypse: An Interview With Jeff Barnaby About His New Film Blood Quantum
Promotional artwork for writer-director Jeff Barnaby’s Blood Quantum. Illustration by Chippewar. With people sheltering in place as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many are turning to their TVs for…
COVID-19 and Education in Ontario – An Imaginative Approach
Let me start by saying that I understand that hindsight is a big advantage and some may ask why didn’t I think of this sooner and my response is that…
COVID-19: Homeless to be housed in empty hotels
The B.C. government says it will temporarily move people sleeping in Oppenheimer and Topaz parks and on Pandora Avenue into hotels and shelters. by Nick Eagland, April 25, 2020 Vancouver…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Heather Scoffield points out some of the people who have been systematically excluded from any discussion about what steps need to be…
What Happens If We Get This Wrong?
Medical science contends that viral pandemics come in waves. The 1918 Spanish Flu claimed 30,000 lives in New York City. 20,000 of those deaths occurred in the second wave, in…
April 28: Yes. This is real….
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/25/psychologist-john-gartner-trump-is-a-sexual-sadist-who-is-actively-engaging-in-sabotage/ The American people have a choice – an insane president or the other political party — both owned by billionaires who will plunder and starve them. Anyway, the evangelical…
The Complicated Evolution of Doug Ford
As we start the last week of April, it can be a bit stunning to think of everything that’s happened over the past nearly two months. We’ve seen lots of…
Jason Kenney & Alberta’s Oil Industry should fear the policies of the Chinese, European and Indian Governments and not Ottawa
When I started writing my blog, more than five years ago experts said that electric cars would only be competitive with gas cars in 2035 or 2040. At the time,…
But A Brief Reprieve
If our thoughts have been able, even briefly, to break out of their ongoing obsession with Covid-19 and death, we will have realized a couple of things: One, that we…
Bringing The House Down
Tony Burman writes that Donald Trump is putting China in the driver’s seat. It wasn’t supposed to be this way: It began in 1972 when then-president Richard Nixon, an avowed…
Ontario NDP: A party of survivors.
If you came to Ontario recently, you would have a problem figuring out what goes on at the provincial parliament at Queen’s Park. With that big blowhard who seems to…
Too soon M. Legault
Premier François Legault has started to prepare Quebecers mentally for the gradual lifting of the province’s lockdown…
Herd Immunity Strategies will not save us from COVID-19
Share this: Dr Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer As Canadians continue to hunker down in the country-wide lockdown, Quebec’s Premier François Legault expressed interest in herd immunity this…
Winnipeg Neo-Nazi Exposed – Justin Hjalmarsson
ARC received a tip earlier today from antifascists about swastika imagery at a home in Winnipeg: a swastika has been spotted in the backyard of a home with a confederate…
We’re all about to be tracked by our “betters”
The police are only the tip of the iceberg. We’re all about to be tracked by our “betters” to see if we came close to a Covid-19 carrier, or whatever.…
April 25: An old, old story of human greed.
At the end of world war two, we immediately began to prepare for World War Three. The United Nations was not created for that purpose. It was intended for the…