Back to the 30s?
“We are facing a period of profound adversity unlike any we have since the 1930s,” Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said last week. The premier was referring to the province’s economy…
2020
Lessons from Taiwan during COVID-19: between politics and collective experience
Taiwanese evacuees from Wuhan arrive in Taiwan on a charter flight. Photo courtesy of the Taiwanese government’s Central Epidemic Command Center. Over the course of the last few weeks, with…
Covid Journal, March 25, 2020
After nearly 10 days of self-isolation and a complete collapse of the world economy, where are we at? Once again, the US is #1, but for all the wrong reasons.
Not Helping the Team
We’re in hard times and in these times, we need a lot of empathy and compassion for others out there. Let’s face it, as human beings that’s not something we…
Canadian Clinical Study to Fight COVID-19 Inflammation Starts Today
Researchers are working around the world and around the clock to ensure that we can stymie the spread and harm from COVID-19. Today, a new clinical study run by the…
What We Have Learned About Ourselves
The coronavirus provides us with a societal mirror in which we can see our flaws. In the United States, the flaws are glaring. Bruce Arthur writes: In the United States…
Measuring social separation.
We should all applaud the ingenuity of cashiers and others in their efforts to maintain social separation at this difficult time. The prize for the most ingenious solution should go…
Communiqué From Prisoners In The Laval Immigration Holding Centre: Hunger-Strike Until We Are Free (Laval, 24 March 2020)
Following the petition we wrote , which had little impact on our situation of detention, we have decided to move to the second phase of our plan. This is to…
Escape from Florida: My 2,400-km drive back to the sanity of Canada
Originally published by Macleans Escape from Florida: My 2,400-km drive back to the sanity of Canada Stephen Maher: In Florida, the beaches were open, people filled bars, and many just…
No one should fault Jason Kenney for his Hope Mission photo op — but that N95 mask is another matter
No one should fault Premier Jason Kenney too much for visiting Edmonton’s Hope Mission, having a few photos taken and posting them on social media with an uplifting message about…
#DieForTheDow is trending
Age-wise, I am on the wrong side of the “let’s save the economy by throwing grandma to the wolves” argument. So I have to say, I disagree with it! And…
“Herd Immunity” is Epidemiological Neoliberalism
My name is Isabel Frey, and I’m a Vienna-based millenial, writing on life and politics in times of the coronavirus. I have a background in medical anthropology and sociology, a…
This is one of the scariest things you will ever read
Here. I am posting it because I want you to send it to people who are not being careful. I want you to email it or text it to people…
Coronavirus and the Death of ‘Connectivity’
A Chinese worker looks on as a cargo ship is loaded at a port in Qingdao. Photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images. The COVID-19 pandemic is the second major crisis of globalization…
Strings of lights seen in night sky over Cowichan Valley
There has been numerous sightings of strings of lights in the sky over Vancouver Island recently. (File photo) Originally published by the Cowichan Citizen Could be satellites, or…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Lounging cat.
The Sins of Assange
“Assange’s arrest represents an abuse of power, highlighting not only how true journalism has now been banished in the West, but also how politicians, journalists, news agencies and think-tanks collude…
March 24: It was the worst of days.
The problems is bigger even than coronavirus. It goes back to 1945 – and earlier, much earlier. Almost all wars in history go back to greed. The news media always…
A couple of Trudeau things
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