Cherry Blossom events cancelled
UPDATED as of March 13, 2020: Following the recent provincial and federal health updates, Cherry Jam (Apr 2-3) and The Big Picnic (Apr 11) events will be cancelled. We’ll still…
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Stanley Park Easter Train and VanDusen Garden Easter Eggspedition events have been cancelled
The Stanley Park Easter Train and VanDusen Garden Easter Eggspedition events have been cancelled as they exceed the province’s new criteria of 250 attendees. TicketZone will be sending out an…
Water protection trumps logging in the Municipal Forest Reserve, says society president
Originally published by sixmountains.ca. The Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society is asking North Cowichan to consider water protection rather than logging as the best use of the 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve.
Life In Scarborough: The Plague Journal, Day II
Visited The Elsy (LCBO) today. I notice that while they're knifing each other over toilet paper at the Walmart across the parking lot, here everything is calm. People believe that…
Life In Scarborough: The Plague Journal, Day II
Visited The Elsy (LCBO) today. I notice that while they’re knifing each other over toilet paper at the Walmart across the parking lot, here everything is calm. People believe that…
Life In Scarborough: The Plague Journal, Day II
Visited The Elsy (LCBO) today. I notice that while they’re knifing each other over toilet paper at the Walmart across the parking lot, here everything is calm. People believe that…
Covid-19: How To Prevent Our Hospitals From Collapsing
The great Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder drew that one seventeen years ago, during the SARS outbreak. But it works just as well today.For it reflects what many people all…
City responds to Provincial order to cancel gatherings of 250 people or more due to COVID-19
March 12 2020 – The City of Vancouver is currently reviewing all events and programs. All gatherings with 250 people or more will be cancelled or postponed, as per today’s…
Economic Respone to Pandemic: Go Big, Go Fast
The health emergency created by the COVID-19 pandemic is of course the primary concern of Canadians, and the first priority for government to address. But it is increasingly clear that…
Slaughterhouse Now: Reflections on Huxley, authoritarianism, and the Brave New World being ushered in by a bug
* I think of a dear friend’s response to my dinner invitation tonight – him saying (in the face of the “pandemic”) that he is generally staying home…. Frankly, like…
Another Obituary for the Mango Mussolini
Another pundit proclaims Trump’s political career DOA. This time it’s Republican pundit, Peter Wehner, writing in the Atlantic. “They’ve simply lost time they can’t make up. You can’t get back…
in which covid-19 accomplishes what revolution, unexplained plane crashes, and terrorism could not
I’ve never cancelled a trip because of external circumstances. Until now. In 1994 we were heading to Mexico — to travel through the country, not to stay in a resort…
COVID-19 and the working class
Flyers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport wearing facemasks on March 6th, 2020 as the COVID-19 coronavirus spreads throughout the United States. Photo by Chad Davis (Flickr). US politicians and media…
"The Joke is Over"
It’s almost too much to hope for but The Guardian’s Richard Wolffe sees a silver-lining in the Covid-19 pandemic. For three long years the world has been treated to the…
The outbreak takes over the election… for now
Maclean’s US Politics Insider The Coronavirus Election Welcome to the Maclean’s Politics Insider: America 2020, launched for readers who crave U.S. political news during primary season. If you want…
Covid-19. We’re In It For the Duration.
It’s a bit worrisome when our leaders come out with misleading narratives on something as serious as a pandemic. In the case of Donald Trump that’s to be expected. Others…
Is Recession in Our Future?
The Royal Bank of Canada figures that, between the Covid-19 pandemic and the engineered collapse in world oil prices, recession is in our near future. The bank is predicting Canada’s…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Todd Gordon and Geoffrey McCormack write about Canada’s crisis of capitalism – which is only being laid bare by a coronavirus pandemic exposing…
A Sobering Reflection
These are difficult days, which seems to be an understatement to say at the moment. What’s worse is that we know they are going to get more difficult, as Covid-19…