2020
Crisis Point: Leadership Needed From…Anywhere, Now
Imagine if real leadership from the grassroots comes now from the moderate, democratic/republican right, and not the centre or the left. Considering that the centre and left, almost without…
Cognitive Dissonance, Mass Insanity & Covid Hysteria
Check the numbers. The disease is not ravaging us, is not unprecedented, but has killed 1/3rd the death toll of a typical year of the common flu. DOES ANYBODY FACT-CHECK…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jane McDonald writes about the lessons we should learn for future crisis management from the coronavirus pandemic. And Jim Stanford discusses both the…
Saving lives
Once we recognise that this is a major event in human history, it can actually help gain some perspective. And as Cuomo said “What we have done has saved lives”…
We need closer oversight on high-tech police practices
Originally published by the ORCA APRIL 23, 2020 By ANIL ANAND Understanding and safeguarding personal freedom and civil rights is more critical than ever. So who’s policing the police? Policing…
Basic Income: The Right Time? (Video)
The newest episode of the Magpie Brûlé Video Podcast is now up. In this episode, I talk about the response of the Federal government to Covid-19, the lessons of the…
ALISTAIR MACGREGOR AND GORD JOHNS PROPOSE SOLUTIONS TO HELP LOCAL FOOD PRODUCERS.
ALISTAIR MACGREGOR AND GORD JOHNS PROPOSE SOLUTIONS TO HELP LOCAL FOOD PRODUCERS. OTTAWA – NDP Agriculture critic Alistair MacGregor (MP for Cowichan-Malahat-Langford), and Fisheries critic Gord Johns (MP for Courtenay–Alberni),…
Saturday Photo: Sculpture in the Spring
An example of making something grand out of nothing: Glenn LeMesurier’s sculptures. For a couple of decades he’s been creating fascinating objects from discarded machine parts. This photo was taken…
The Relentless, Indefatigable Chip Franklin
Most days I stop myself from reposting Chip Franklin’s hilarious screeds. Today is not one of those days. If you're a Trumper, and you think I'm a liberal doling out…
A Madman
There are those who still confidently predict that Donald Trump will win re-election. But Frank Bruni writes that Trump is self-destructing before our eyes: As Katie Rogers and Annie Karni…
April 25 COVID News
The following COVID-19 resources may be useful to many of you; if you know of similar resources not on this list, send me an email and let me know. i…
April 26: Multi-City Caravan Against Imprisonment
Sunday, April 26 12pm – 5pm est (depending on time zones) facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/620446565216500/ On Sunday April 26, migrant justice & prison justice groups from coast to coast will again be…
26 avril: La caravan multi-villes contre l’emprisonnement
26 avril 12h – 17h (diff. Fuseaux horaires) facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/620446565216500/ Dimanche le 26 avril, les groupes pour la justice carcérale et en immigration d’un océan à l’autre s’allieront à nouveau…
Justin’s magic bag of money.
Watching the daily news conference by the prime minister the other morning, I lost track of how much money he was promising. No doubt our news media people are keeping…
Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel returns to top of independent bookshops’ fiction bestseller list
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, April 19, 2020. The lists are compiled…
Musical interlude
CHVRCHES – Out Of My Head
Neoliberalism & The Death Of The Middle Class
The death of the middle class is due to a very conscious, four decade class war, known as neoliberalism. (See Chomsky, Profits Over People, and, Requiem For The American Dream.…
Planet of the Humans Review
So I just noticed I’m getting a lot of traffic for a post I wrote 8 months ago that advertised the release. Back then I wrote about some concerns with…
Plague Update: Trump Keeps It Clean
We all know what a stable genius the President is, you really have to admire him coming up with quality solutions on the fly during a press conference. Medical doctors…