2020
The Maxims of Empire
(And the Maxims of Liberation) There are at least five known, central maxims which all emperors understand and employ, which have been used for millennia by the elite in order…
Covid Journal, April 11, 2020
The longer we’re cut adrift, the sooner we learn to row.
Coronavirus Questions – and Explanations
Can anyone do basic math? Does anyone fact check? Does anyone question the media or the government? Another $2 trillion was just announced by the US Federal Reserve to…
Covid 19: How The Ignorance Of Some Could Kill Us
In my last post I looked at why we need to strictly enforce social distancing if we are ever going to get the Covid-19 pandemic under control.So we can flatten…
The Walrus Interviewed WEXIT Members. We Dug a Little Deeper.
The Walrus recently produced a photo essay about WEXIT in which they interview various, including some who have previously had a relatively low profile. Photo-journalist Brett Gundlock states in the…
On private interests
So far, the COVID-19 crisis has offered plenty of lessons about the limitations of delivering public goods through self-interested banks. Any relief has flowed only slowly, while the crisis has…
Convention in the Age of Covid-19
We are pretty much a month into this new, odd normal of living with Covid-19 and frankly, it’s almost hard to believe that it’s been that long. I know for…
A COVID-19 Message from Park Board Commissioner Stuart Mackinnon
Stay Safe Stay Healthy Stay Home
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Saturday reading. – Henry Giroux discusses how the greatest risks arising out of the coronavirus pandemic can be traced back to neoliberal political assumptions. And Patrick…
Canada re-embraces Saudi monarchy by lifting freeze on arms exports
Canadian light armoured vehicles, developed by General Dynamics, move in a convoy in the Wainwright Garrison training area during Exercise Maple Resolve. Photo by Sgt. Jean-Francois Lauzé/Garrison Imaging Petawawa. As…
And it’s 30 years long
April is the Purell-est month. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 11, 2020
Saturday Photo: Geese Flying North, A Sign of Progress?
The sky has been full of geese this last week as Canada geese head north along the great St. Lawrence fly way. They pass over Montreal every spring and fall,…
A phony Ford forges forward.
It is hard to believe that it is so easy to con Martin Regg Cohn of the Toronto Star. The provincial affairs specialist wrote a piece the other day admiring…
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel tops Alberta independent bookstores’ 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 5, 2020. The lists are compiled…
Musical interlude
Labi Siffre – I Got The…
How I spent my summer vacation
Here’s the tweet of the week month: Today is 3 wks in quarantine w/o sugar. Walking 3 miles a day, no meat, dairy or flour! I feel great! No alcohol…
Bernie Sanders lost because he didn’t really try to win over centrist doubters
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders Politics is ultimately about one thing: winning. If you are constantly losing elections while simultaneously claiming you’ve taken the high road, and stayed true to every…