The Barefoot Contessa’s Guide to Coping with Quarantine
Ina Garten’s tip for how to cope when you’re a pandemic shut-in.
2020
Why Doug Ford is Gaming the Covid-19 Pandemic and Fox News Accidentally Blows Trump’s Cover.
The proof is right there on a screen capture posted to Warren Kinsella’s blog. “Province says 4,400 deaths have been prevented so far.” That’s what you call polishing a turd.…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Paul Wells highlights the futility in telling people to stay home when they lack a home to stay in. And Robyn Urback discusses…
Watch Our CVRD Directors Debate Their Own Pay Increases
Richard Hughes You can check out our CVRD Directors discussing/debating their significant raise here: About 5.40 start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nuf-qft7KQ COWICHANVALLEYCITIZEN.COM Read more…
Ontario Family Law and the COVID19 Outbreak
BY SIMRAN BAKSHI, ASSOCIATE LAWYERThe CoVid19 crisis has raised a multitude of new legal isues in virtually every area of the law. For those with family law concerns related to…
Hurray For the Daft! (That’s Us)
* (My apologies for the strange formatting again – WordPress gets glitchy on me and refuses paragraph spacing, forcing me to use awkward-looking stars. Bear with me.) * The left…
Is the "Zoom Last Will" Coming to Ontario?
BY PAUL B. ADAM, ASSOCIATE LAWYER The Superior Court in Ontario has agreed to hear an urgent case that addresses what has become a critical issue during the Covid-19 pandemic:…
Up to 15,000 dead possible in Ontario over two years – and that’s even if we “follow the rules”
“Most disturbing slide in the deck is on page 13.” Shows over full course of pandemic – maybe even up to two years, Dr. Donnelly says – Ontario would have…
Covid Journal, April 3, 2020
My Covid diary continues. Will Trump instigate a trade war with Canada over masks?
The World Rediscovers Cuban Medical Internationalism
A brigade of more than 50 Cuban doctors and nurses arrived in Lombardy, one of the worst-affected regions in Italy, in response to a plea for international help. Just weeks…
With Allies Like These: The Next Outrage
It was just yesterday at this blog that I wrote about the questions that many allies are having to ask right now about our relationships with the United States and…
Mel Watkins: A Life Well Lived
Political economist, activist and professor Mel Watkins (1932-2020). Image created by Krishna Lalbiharie. Mel Watkins, who passed on April 2, was a wonderful human being, a friend and mentor, the…
what i’m reading: political graphic nonfiction: emma goldman, muhammad ali, eugene v. debs
I have been collecting graphic nonfiction with leftist political themes. I just love these books and am indulging myself in buying them. I was planning to review them, but I’ve…
A Courageous Proposal
We’re in unprecedented times and everyone is trying to figure out how to operate properly during them. For some that’s much easier than others, and certain groups positions are easier…
Post From the Past: Tesla vs. Ford GM
https://twitter.com/mims/status/848971911975636992 https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-overtakes-gm-to-become-most-valuable-u-s-auto-maker-1491832043 These tweets brought to you by April 3rd, 2017, the past when I wrote this blog post, and probably have since forgotten about it. UPDATE Nov. 20, 2018,…
The Weakness In Globolization
The pandemic has exposed the weak link in the theory of globalization. The theory states that those nations which can easily produce certain products should produce them, while those countries…
Look on the bright side of all this
Three weeks into the pandemic, here are the three groups we never need to hear from again: • anti-vaxxers• Trump fanatics• anti-government types They’re done. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April…
When your time’s up, your time’s up
Some of you were upset that I said – and so stipulated in my living will – that I didn’t want to be put on a ventilator, if I got…
Kenney dives into pipeline financing.
In a time when the rest of the world is expending all energy and funds into the war against the novel coronavirus, Alberta premier Jason Kenney is following his own…
Smoke and mirrors aren’t cutting it — Alberta’s health minister still needs to go
Despite a lot of smoke and mirrors, Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government has never dispelled the queasy feeling many Albertans have that Tyler Shandro’s personal business dealings render him unsuitable…