Eating in quarantine: Indian food Easter from Dosa & Curries
As it came to dinner time on Easter Sunday and no turkey having appeared in my larder,. I turned to Door Dash and went in search of Indian food, hoping…
2020
A Shining Example in Dark Days
Here at this blog I have written a fair bit about Canada’s attempts to get needed medical equipment and personal protective equipment over the past couple of weeks. That writing…
How We can Track COVID-19 and NOT Invade Your Privacy
To figure out the spread of COIV-19, or other diseases, the technique of contact tracing gets used by researchers to decipher who is likely to have been exposed. When too…
The future? A future? It beckons.
This is a long read, but it’s worth it. Italian novelist Francesca Melandri, who has been under lockdown in Rome for one month due to the Covid-19 outbreak, has written…
Not Likely
Lawrence Martin writes that Donald Trump is not likely to win re-election. What used to be his strong suit — the economy — has been shattered by the coronavirus: The…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of April 13, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 13,2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: R. Kelly requests bail because of Covid-19, but a federal judge turns him…
CoVid19: Federal Relief Initiatives for Canada’s Employers, Employees, and Workplaces
Bradley Waese, CPA, CA, Managing Partner of SF Partnership, LLP joins @wiselaw‘s Garry J. Wise in discussion about the federal government’s CoVid19 relief initiatives for employers, employees and workplaces. Information…
Masking the problem.
Some advise to progressive bloggers today: Do not get into an argument over wearing face masks in an epidemic. I got e-mails about that one! All, I did was mention…
Number of active COVID cases in NL declines dramatically #nlpoli
Newfoundland and Labrador is already emerging from the first wave of the COVID-19 infection. The data from the provincial government’s daily COVID-19 media briefings is clear. Starting on April 6,…
Canada’s universal single-payer health care system is our best vaccination against the neoliberal virus
Who would have thought a decade ago, or even six months back, that Canada’s chances of surviving as a unified country would be better than those of the United States?…
Trudeau’s wage subsidy should have been the first to roll out, not the last
Share this: The new Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy is a brand new program created by the Liberal Party of Canada that would provide 75% of a workers wage to workers…
Checking In
How are you? Are you okay? The Soapbox family is fine. We’re the lucky ones, we’re doing reasonably well under the circumstances. We check in with each other every day.…
Covid Journal, April 12, 2020
People that own our food chain need to understand that the longer we’re cut adrift, the sooner we’ll learn to row.
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lauren Leatherby and David Gelles examine how people are spending money differently in the midst of a pandemic, while Lucia Mutikani reports…
Far-Right Conspiracy Theories Rampant During Pandemic
It’s not a surprise that the far-right have latched onto every conspiracy under the sun with respect to Covid-19; this is where they live. It’s also not a surprise that…
BoJo Recovers, Thanks NHS Profusely
My great hope is that he’s now less of a jerk. https://t.co/Xt0aX4E6KJ — Paul Doroshenko, Q.C. (@PaulDoroshenko) April 12, 2020 The UK’s PM has apparently recovered from a serious COVID-19…
The False Hope of a Pandemic Basic Income
A man walks down an empty Yonge Street in Toronto. Photo by Myles Herod/Instagram. In the conditions of extreme economic dislocation that the COVID-19 pandemic has created, a crisis of…
Make ’em laugh, make ’em laugh …
The cast of Arrested Development Last week, in an attempt to alleviate the tedium of the Coronapocalypse, I offered some dramatic fare to help you fill the thousands of empty…
Did Canada Drop the Ball on Covid-19?
The obvious answer is “yes,” the federal government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic was a litany of quarter- or half-measures, missed opportunities that allowed the virus to win the early…
Social Psychology & Meditation On Death
Montaigne said of fear, “There is no emotion which more readily ravishes our judgement.” That would seem to be the best explanation of our current mass social psychology: the great…