Joe Biden: An Unremarkable Man
Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden Branko Marcetic Verso, 2020 Joe Biden had been a United States Senator for more than three-and-a-half decades until his selection as Barack Obama’s…
2020
April 2: Writing a blog is hell……
…that’s why this one will be brief. I had spent many hours writing it, and was into the home stretch. And then it all disappeared. This has heppened before though,…
Justin Trudeau and the Covid Cons
The other day, Cathie from the excellent blog Cathie From Canada, left this comment on my blog:I have never been more proud to be Canadian than I have been since…
I’m Becoming an Oil Baron
For those who complain there’s nothing in the news but COVID these days, try the Alberta section. Lots going on. For example, our government just laid off 26,000 school support…
April 2 COVID News
The following COVID-19 resources may be useful to many of you; if you know of similar resources not on this list, send me an email and let me know. i…
Eating in Quarantine: Maverick’s Donut Company
So, I won’t be going out for a meal I can review in the near future. But I still gotta ear, and now I have more time to write too.…
COVID 19: 5 Demands for Federal Prisons
COVID 19: Measures for Federal Prisons IMMEDIATELY RELEASE ALL VULNERABLE PRISONERS: Anyone over 50 years old, immunocompromised, pregnant, sick, or who has a preexisting condition that makes them at high…
COVID-19 5 Demandes pour les prisons fédérales
COVID-19 Mesures impératives pour les prisons fédérales LIBÉRONS IMMÉDIATEMENT TOUS LES PRISONNIERS VULNÉRABLES : Toute personne de plus de 50 ans, immunodéprimée, enceinte, malade ou présentant une condition préexistante qui…
My latest: leadership in tough times
Leadership in good times means little. Leadership in bad times means everything. And these times, they are indisputably bad. Grim, grinding, grotesque. For the rest of our lives, we will…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jeet Heer writes about the class war already emerging in competing responses to the coronavirus epidemic. Ricardo Tranjan makes the case for…
five reasons streaming is still better than cable, even if the price tag is the same (plus a long story mostly for myself)
If you stream movies and TV series, you know that the proliferation of streaming channels has had mixed results for consumers. Many shows that were formerly on Netflix have been…
Coronavirus (COVID-19): The Central Facts
This was the letter I just sent to a friend who, to his credit, was very calm and respectful as he stated that he felt I was misunderstanding the current…
With Allies Like These….
Over the past many years, we’ve seen a lot of stress and strain put on institutions and alliances that have helped create stability for so many western nations. Frankly a…
Covid Journal, April 2, 2020 (Britney Edition)
More people are looking for honesty with respect to how long this will last.
Back To The Centre
For the past thirty years, Canada has been decentralizing. The coronavirus has halted that trend. Our central government is now where the action is. John Ibbitson writes: Decades of decentralization…
Listen to this Song to Reduce Your Anxiety
Marconi Union – Weightless (Official Video) from Optical Vitamins on Vimeo. The song Weightless by the Marconi Union has been proven by neuroscientists to reduce people’s anxiety, and in times…
It’s the Tory party that is self-destructing.
Last weekend, Chantal Hébert wrote her regular opinion piece for the Toronto Star. She was ruminating on the idea that presumed front-runner Peter MacKay’s campaign for the conservative leadership might…
Bollocks #nlpoli
Kill the wabbit? Moody’s has changed its outlook on the provincial government’s debt from stable to negative while sustaining the A1 rating it gave the province in July 2019. That,…
The year so far
Get put in charge of government. Yay. No more Libtards. Implement laws making face masks illegal. Damned rioters. Refuse Carbon Tax income distribution schemes that put money into your budget.…