Plague 2020: Life On The Inside
The WHO’s warnings to close schools at the end of February were accurate. Unsurprising to me, the climate crisis Deniers are out in full force trying to deny scientific pandemic…
2020
Disease and Direct Action: Organizing the Winnipeg General Strike and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Demonstration at the Red Cross emergency ambulance station in Washington, DC during the influenza pandemic of 1918. Photo from the US Library of Commerce. The influenza outbreak experienced in Winnipeg…
Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher-Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth
Time for a break from the grim COVID-19 news. let’s watch these two fabulous dancers. Be happy, be safe. ?? Read more…
Doc Walton and Alex Marsh developed working ventilator masks that could help with the global shortage of ventilators
Originally published by the Cowichan Citizen Alex Marsh, 14, is using his 3D printer to create valves that are to be used in new ventilator masks to help deal with…
While They’re All Distracted By that Virus, Let’s Gut the EPA
Figuring that a public worried about a viral pandemic and their next pay cheque, Team Trump figures this is the perfect time to pull a fast one – or two…
Imagining A New World
Having the underpinnings of our daily lives so radically altered is immensely unsettling. The things we have always taken for granted, be it a daily walk, a quick trip to…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Derek Thompson reports on Denmark’s wage subsidies which are finally being mimicked by other countries including Canada. And Duncan Cameron points out how…
March 28 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…
Saturday Photo: Saving Lives in the Spanish Flu Pandemic
Because life right now can be pretty scary, I wrote the following for my grandkids this week. You might find it interesting too. A Story about How Your Great-Great Grandfather…
Covid Journal, March 28, 2020 (Snitch line edition)
Covidiocy increases, this time with the appearance of snitch lines across the country. Is this how we want to live? Is this evolution of our society?
When Will They Ever Learn?
Human beings are flawed. Two of our most glaring weaknesses are our collective short term memory and our inability to think long term. Alan Freeman writes: It’s unbelievable how quickly…
A professional is on the job.
Kirsten Hillman of Global Affaires Canada has been appointed Canada’s ambassador to the United States of America. She has been in the job in an acting capacity since the departure…
Tyler Shandro’s epic meltdown reopens the debate about his Venetian blind trust
Health Minister Tyler Shandro’s epic meltdown in front of his neighbour’s home last weekend allows an important debate to be reopened about the appearance of conflict of interest in political…
Musical interlude
Vivienne Wilder – Never Lovers
Trump Says Up, You Say Down: Psyops 101
Trump is a tool of the Deep State. He thinks he’s a brave rebel, at war with the Deep State. Or so he thought until the generals schooled him. Now…
The best public service announcement you will ever see
Can this Limerick man please do all the governments social distancing announcements from now on? pic.twitter.com/nBL6ZSc3HW — The Blindboy Podcast (@Rubberbandits) March 27, 2020
Global Geopolitics Analysis 2020: Sinking All Ships (But Our Own): Elite Aim To Sink Global Economy, In Order To Consolidate Global Neo-Feudal Corporate Rule
The currently reigning political-economic orthodoxy, philosophy or ideology, both East and West, and in virtually every nation, with only a few exceptions, has rightly been called neoliberalism. What that means,…
Sonia Furstenau statement on suspension of the BC Green Leadership race
For immediate release March 27, 2020 COWICHAN VALLEY, BC – Sonia Furstenau, MLA for Cowichan Valley and Read more…