Government Inaction on COVID-19 Threatens Inmates’ Lives
Photo by Matthias Müller/Flickr Imagine that you are having a nightmare in which you are living a happy life when a deadly and highly contagious pandemic strikes. The voices of…
2020
Not Helping the Team: The Next Examples
A while back I wrote a piece here about politicians from around the World who have been not helping things with some of their words. In a time when we…
When Home Is Dangerous
Six years ago, we moved my mother into a nursing home. It was a good home. It was expensive. But she refused to go, and we had to have her…
Being Weird is Great for Community
It’s OK to be weird, if anything it’s good that you’re weird. The old adage to “just be yourself” rings true and you should embrace it by embracing other people…
The good and the ugly in tough times.
It has been more than a few years since I was traveling around Ontario lecturing business students at our universities. At the time, the subject of my lectures was the…
Trends #nlpoli
How do you keep in place the very necessary and successful restrictions on public life needed to combat the spread of CVD19 when the success of those measures reduces the…
That goofy letter from Kingston to Jason Kenney — promise made, promise kept?
Now, about that goofy letter from Kingston, the one wherein the generous author or authors sent Alberta Premier Jason Kenney $1,000 to help out the Alberta treasury, I have a…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cat amid mayhem.
April 14:: Hard /tunes at tthe cinoyter
The blog is late because I’ve been having quite a few obvious attackes on my computer. The most recent makes it impossible for me to send any mail. I hope…
Covid Journal, April 14, 2020 (Trump Kills WHO During a Pandemic)
Is defunding the World Health Organization during a global pandemic the wisest thing to do? If you’re Donald Trump it is. Also, a viable alternative to Amazon for books and…
Obama: America Can’t Afford to Lose This One.
Barack Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden wrapped up in a call to action.
The Long Haul. We’re Only Getting Started.
The impetus, even among relatively progressive governors, to find ways to re-open the economy, carries the blended scent of necessity and desperation. Life must go on even at the cost…
American Political Studies Resources for Highschool Student
I am a Canadian homeschooling my children, but we can’t help hearing about American politics. So, my husband and I are insisting that our children learn to understand the American…
Essential Example
Over the past month our country and society as a whole has had many difficult situations and decisions thrust upon us by the Covid-19 global pandemic. We’ve had to deal…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Miles Corak weighs in on how COVID-19 is revealing and exacerbating existing inequality rather than serving as any leveling force. – Jessica…
All politics is local
I’m starting to form the opinion that national governments are too big and too unwieldy to respond to #coronavirus as quickly as they need to. Provinces and states, by their…
The Weakest Link
There has been much criticism worldwide over national governments’ failures to act quickly enough to contain the spread of Covid-19; one needs only look at the frightening death tolls in…
Neoliberalism Is Imploding
Neoliberalism, the conventional wisdom that has driven the international consensus about government is under attack. Jim Harding writes: The libertarian view that the individual must relentlessly fight against interference from…
A man and his ideas.
Bernie Sanders has taken himself out of the race for the democratic nomination for president. He left his legacy behind. The Vermont senator is probably tired but he can be…