Trudeau popularity way, way up
Here. I suspect Donald Trump is making him look pretty darn good, in comparative terms. But by all means, keep singing the praises of Trump, dumb Canadian conservatives.
2020
Why the Response to COVID-19 Should Include Universal Basic Income
Leaflet-sized version of a poster unveiled in Geneva, Switzerland by Generation Grundeinkommen (Generation Basic Income) in May, 2016. Photo by Julien Gregorio/Flickr. We already know capitalism is failing in the…
Covid Journal, April 22, 2020
Heart breaking news from Nova Scotia.
Is Chuckles shooting blanks?
The lame duck conservative leader and leader of the opposition in parliament, Andrew Scheer, has a problem. Is nobody paying him any attention? Is it that difficult for him to…
Alberta safety inspection of Cargill slaughterhouse done by FaceTime, with no actual inspector on site
Alberta Labour’s occupational health and safety inspector didn’t actually visit the Cargill Inc. meatpacking plant in High River when the ministry inspected its COVID-19 safety measures on April 15. Instead,…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Couch cat.
April 20/04: 75 years After World War 2…
……we have created 75 years of the world that Hitler failed to achieve.________________________________________________________________https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/alberta-canadas-tar-sands-is-growing-but-indigenous-people-fight-back/ https://globalnews.ca/news/6832608/coronavirus-trudeau-alberta-bc-saskatchewan-energy-industry-orphan-well-cleanup/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-orphan-wells-cleanup-bill-12-1.5528257 Some of our news media are gushing about how a clean-up of a few oil…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Daniel Markovits argues for a wealth tax to fund the relief and rebuilding effort needed in response to COVID-19, while Paul Mason…
In Case You Forgot About It, We’re Still Facing a Climate Crisis.
The shockwaves of the pandemic and the oil crisis have caused the climate crisis to recede from the public conversation. We may have other things on our mind but the…
Special message to ignorant, bigoted conservatives during Covid-19: Go ahead, meet up in big groups, go to church, hug and lick each other, spread the virus amongst yourselves!
Neo-cons resemble zombies at a recent U.S. protest against public safety I’ve gotten so angry lately when I hear about idiotic conservatives bitching and whining (even more than usual) about…
The Problem with Junk Oil
Canada seems likely to get knocked off its perch as the world’s fourth largest petroleum exporter. We’ve milked it for all it was worth but today it’s worth way less…
De-cluttering The Mind – And Our “Civilization”
If we had only Socrates, Shakespeare, Montaigne and Thoreau as guides, to direct our course, and tell us about the world and how to live in it, I think we…
Covid Journal, April 21, 2020
How can a ‘market’ be a market without a market? Our stock markets are based on underlying principles like cash flow, employment numbers, productivity and sales. With none of the…
Crisis Overreach in Manitoba
As Canadian governments, both Federal and Provincial, have been fighting Covid-19 and doing their best to meet the needs to the public, that effort has required steps to be taken…
Follow The Money
Stephen Moore — who Donald Trump tried to install on the Federal Reserve Board — calls the people who insist on opening up the economy despite the health risks “the…
After this Pandemic Cities will be More Resilient
Pandemic and other major health issues have hit cities before and they’ll hit cities again in the future. Each time this happens cities find new designs and solutions for the…
In a half-full Canada.
How many attractive countries are there to help alleviate the overcrowding, the poverty and the tensions of so many countries of this world? And of one of the more desirable…
Is Oil Profitable? Negative.
This has been obvious to me for most of the last decade, after it became clear that good information was never going to win over enough people, because disinformation had…
Hard to believe keeping meatpacking and oilsands plants running hasn’t contributed to COVID-19 spread
If you listened carefully to yesterday’s COVID-19 briefing in Edmonton, it was difficult to avoid the conclusion the Kenney Government’s reluctance to regulate certain industries has contributed to the spread…
More methane? Meh!
In British Columbia and other western provinces, we will soon be working to reshape the economy. Now is a perfect time to commit to reduced production of fossil fuels and…