Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Michael Valpy and Frank Graves take a look at public opinion in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, and conclude that Canadians are…
2020
From Burnside to Laval: Solidarity!
This message is from the Burnside prison strikers to the Laval hunger strikers. For more information about the situation at Laval, where migrant prisoners have been on hunger strike for…
Escaping the prison of a coronavirus.
With all the rules these days, my wife and I still like to get out for some fresh air and do our own shopping errands. Last Friday, in balmy weather…
#LockDownNow To Spare Lives
This is interesting, and packed with references to explain the assumptions. Canada is being too soft on the new coronavirus, and we’re paying the price in the long run. For…
Alberta government to strike new Blue Ribbon Panel on Blue Ribbon Panels
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government plans to strike a Blue Ribbon Panel on Blue Ribbon Panels. With the global coronavirus pandemic and the worldwide collapse of oil prices, the United…
April Fool’s
There is nothing I can write, this year, that can seem more shocking than the reality that we all now live. I’ll do the traditional April Fool’s next year, if…
Kristin Raworth
Thanks to those of you who provided a heads-up. We’ve served her with a Libel Notice, and we intend to pursue it aggressively, whether she apologizes or not. Thanks.
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Active act.
Feb.31: And Worse
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/mar/30/self-isolate-giant-yacht-david-geffen-social-media I’m so happy for the super rich who can pass this awkward time at sea in their multi million dollar yachts. and their doctors and their services and their…
The Pensioner and the Pandemic and …
The Government Wants to Lock Me in My Room Well this blog post is taking somewhat of a change of direction from that planned, which was to focus on the…
The Future To Come…
The following short clip from a piece by Italian novelist Francesca Melandri, who has been under lockdown in Rome for almost three weeks highlights how our perspective will change over…
‘We Have Always Been Disposable’: the Structural Violence of Neoliberal Healthcare
COVID-19 is particularly dangerous for elders, particularly those with chronic illnesses. Photo from Flickr. The marriage of neoliberalism and the medical industrial complex has had disastrous results in Canada, even…
FEEL THE COMPASSION!!!
Finally, a provincial announcement about how Saskatchewan’s most vulnerable can meet their basic needs in a public health emergency which is depriving thousands upon thousands of people of income… Individuals…
Layoffs one day, billion-dollar pipeline giveaways the next — it’s not easy keeping up with the Kenneys!
Keeping up with the Kenneys will make your head spin. Yesterday, the Kenney Government was justifying the layoffs of 26,000 public-sector education workers by claiming there are limits to Alberta’s…
The Two Viruses: COVID-19 and Capitalism
We are living in a pandemic. These are unprecedented times. Not to worry: our political leadership is taking this all very seriously. They will do everything necessary, we are told,…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Anton Jager and Steven Klein discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a particularly strong clash in rhetoric between people advocating…
America’s Cocktail. Equal Parts of Denial and Death.
Paul Krugman writes that his fellow countrymen don’t realize that America is on the “worst trajectory” of any developed nation wrestling with the coronavirus and that includes Italy. I’m not…
Has the Pentagon Met Its Match?
The pride of the US Navy are its fleet carriers – massive, nuclear powered, nuclear armed aircraft carriers that have for decades been a critical asset for “force projection” around…
Chomsky On The Coronavirus: Perspective Is Urgently Needed
Chomsky clarifies the situation with the coronavirus, saying: it’s serious enough, but it represents not even a fraction of the biggest dangers we are facing, which are nuclear war, global…