2020
Sun in the last days of the shogunate
Leaving the graveyard On MUBI.
Covid Journal, April 10, 2020
I’m going to refrain from too much editorial for the next few days. Military and police actions for enforcing by-laws have me very concerned. Civil liberty organizations should be as…
COVID-19: Take care of your mental health too.
One of the twitter feeds I follow commented that since mass social/physical distancing and self isolation has taken place, every day is like the other – the news is the…
Love in the time of COVID-19
Making real change for the greater good from a global crisis The COVID-19 virus crisis is unparalleled in recent times. Arguably, not since the 1919 Spanish Influenza outbreak, have we…
Docs fight Alberta pay cuts in court, seeking $250 million, while battling COVID-19 on the front lines of health care
Yesterday morning, Christine Molnar, president of the Alberta Medical Association, announced that the province’s doctors are launching a constitutional challenge and seeking $250 million in compensation from the United Conservative…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your long weekend reading. – Andrej Markovcic discusses how the pursuit of profit above all else has contributed to the coronavirus pandemic and its devastating effects on…
Liberals’ COVID-19 support measures reveal crisis in Canada’s low-wage job market
A couple walk by a shuttered food truck at Nathan Philips Square in Toronto, Wednesday, March 26, 2020. Photo by Nick Lachance/NOW Magazine. Inequality and class disparity have been on…
The PM’s Pandemic Power Grab
Trudeau has pushed for lifted restraints, less transparency. Why we should be deeply concerned. Michael Harris – TheTyee.caMichael Harris, a Tyee contributing editor, is a highly-awarded journalist and documentary maker.…
Me starting to talk to the dogs while socially isolated?
Don’t be ridiculous. 
Stay the Heck Home!
It’s Good Friday and for many families, this would be a time when they might start to make the trek out of town or get ready to host people for…
I’d say let them all drop dead, but this virus isn’t into irony
The new conservative thing is to protest lockdowns, because they apparently know better than the doctors and the experts. So, as they trumpet “freedom,” they’ll have the freedom to get…
The Deadly Circus
Donald Trump continues to sink into the ooze. Some, including me, are amazed by his performance — or lack of it. Martin Dunn — who used to edit The New…
The validity of vision.
It is an old-fashioned view of leadership, but it is still valid. You have to have vision. Without it, where are you going? A leader understands people and shares with…
For Everyone Who Thinks Our Leaders are Being So Heroic. You’re Wrong.
We’ve got ordinary people that decades of neoliberals have consigned to the precariat, the “Gig Economy,” who now put their lives on the line for us every day and not…
10 things you need to know as a barrel of Alberta oil is valued at less than a bottle of maple syrup
EXPLAINER As fears intensify that the benchmark price for Alberta’s oilsands crude could drop below zero, we dig into what’s behind the crash, the phenomenon of ‘homeless crude’ and why…
Justin Trudeau and the Con Leadership Failures
It's a great shot. Justin Trudeau meets with some of the members of his Team Canada for the first time after three weeks in self isolation.With a lunchbox on his…