It took a freedom-of-information request to North Cowichan, but sixmountains.ca has finally obtained the official minutes of the first meeting of the citizens’ Working Group that is helping to guide…
Public safety is the highest priority of the Park Board and the public is being urged to adhere to the directives of staying 2 metres apart. Camil Dumont, Chair of…
I wrote this essay in late February 2020, in response to the state suppression of blockades across Canada. The blockades remain an important touchstone for militant politics, for it is…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jim Stanford writes about the need for a new Marshall Plan to rebuild once we’ve won the fight against COVID-19: For many…
A face mask adorns a statue of St. Francis of Assisi in the town of San Fiorano in Italy. Photo by Marzio Toniolo. When people emerge from their homes after…
Billboard promoting Schitt’s Creek this season I just want to write a quick shout-out to the great TV comedy Schitt’s Creek, which is coming to a series end this Tuesday…
As our country and provinces respond to Covid-19, we’ve seen a heartening coming together by people from across party lines to tackle the problems that are coming each day. We’ve…
From the Washington Post. First, masks of any type help prevent the user from infecting others by acting as a physical barrier that will block large droplets from
Or, Public Policy 101: Tax “Bads”, Not Goods Public policy, or government policy, should reflect certain basic principles. Let’s set out a few. Not everyone will agree, but polls repeatedly…
Perhaps more people would obey the mandate to self-isolate if more politicians spoke like this: Recommend this Post
I have a lot of sympathy for those working in educational technology positions at schools and universities today because they have been thrust into the unenviable position of converting a…
Cast of The Shield In this time of the Coronapocalypse, let us pause for a moment to salute one of the greatest men of history, a man who made this…
On my recent post about streaming — five reasons streaming is still better than cable and etc. — I alluded to something towards the end of the post that I…
Also happening now, and further showing the continued failure of the left: the left is shouting in defence of payroll taxes – which kill jobs, as they are a…
In the before times I didn’t do that much cooking outside the weekends. But now, with nothing but time on my hands I’m cooking all the time and trying some…
Donald Trump now refers to himself as a “wartime president.” That claim rings astonishingly hollow. Maureen Dowd writes: Donald Trump is trying to build a campaign message around his image…
Won’t be getting to Mass, for some reason, so I will do so right here at 10:00.
There always comes that time when we have to look under the rug. Maybe we were just sending the rug out for cleaning but we can hardly ignore the detritus…
The current average world wide population increase is estimated at 81 million people per year, without COVID-19, we would expect 60 million global deaths in 2020, with a third or…
Melville Henry Watkins (May 15, 1932 — April 2, 2020) was a Canadian political economist and activist and professor emeritus of economics and political science at the University of Toronto.He…
