Doctor Aggie’s H’Answer #nlpoli
“What do I have to do to get you to listen?” health minister John Haggie asked rhetorically and with considerable exasperation at Monday’s daily COVID-19 briefing. Haggie was ranting once…
2020
Pay and benefits for long term care workers must be protected — and not just during the COVID-19 crisis
It should be obvious by now that if a society wants to keep long-term care for the frail and elderly from turning into a deadly nightmare during pandemics, it must…
Oil Industry Disses the Free Market
The free market, who needs it. Not the oil industry obviously. Not the industry nor the governments that depend on its largesse for royalties and taxes. We just had a…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of April 13, 2020
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of April 13, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Apr…
Viva Maria
A rollicking adventure on MUBI
Talking Essential Services & Covid-19 Wage Subsidies with Kristy Cameron
Today I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the latest developments on Covid-19, how…
The Pandemic’s Unflattering Glare: How the Crisis Is Affecting Care Workers and Prisoners
A prisoner inside the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre (also known as Barton Jail) tested positive for COVID-19 in late-March. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton Spectator. Multiple and concurrent disasters are unfolding…
A Virus That Stalks Humanity
There’s a lot of talk these days about lifting the Covid-19 quarantine. The governors of New York and five other east coast states have formed a working group on lifting…
OPINION: COVID-19 brings crisis but also opportunity
Park Board Commissioner Stuart Mackinnon calls for real change for the greater good Vancouver Is Awesome, 13 April 2020 The COVID-19 virus crisis is unparalleled in recent times. Arguably, not…
Jinx! and Political Studies Goofiness
The following conversation is being shared with the permission of my children. My teenager jinxed the eleven-year-old. This rules of jinxing is that two people attempted to say the same…
With Allies Like These: The Good Stories
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a month that most of us have been living in these current circumstances created by Covid-19. It was about a month ago that…
On absenteeism
The U.S. has seen some of its state elections turned into anti-democratic abominations by the absence of effective absentee balloting – with the lack of effective voting serving as an…
New Gay Short Film TRAILER – “The Big Snore”
I’m thrilled to release the trailer for my new short film The Big Snore on YouTube. Yes, you read that title correctly. But I can assure you the film will…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tobias Jones discusses how COVID-19 has emphasized the importance of social interaction to human well-being: It seems callous to suggest that this tenebrous…
Covid Journal, April 13, 2020
As many of us ‘wrap up’ Easter weekend, let’s be thoughtful about where our food is coming from and explore new ways to keep our food production, distribution and –…
Dimitri Lascaris wants the Green Party to be the champion of Canada’s left
Dimitri Lascaris, a long-time activist, author and former class-action lawyer is running to be the next leader of the Green Party of Canada. Photo by Vadim Daniel. During last year’s…
Talking Canada’s Response to Covid-19 on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed Canada’s response to Covid-19, the newly-passed wage…
The cycling I’m doing during the COVID-19 lockdown
There are countries where the distancing and isolating measures enacted include a total prohibition on cycling. But Canada isn’t one of them. And until Theresa Tam or Vera Etches tells…