“Most stupid people are conservative.”
This will be of small comfort to premier Doug Ford of Ontario. A friend reminded me the other day of the quote from 19th Century philosopher John Stuart Mill that…
2020
Remembering Simon Lono #nlpoli
Today is Simon Lono’s birthday. He would have been 57. This coming Saturday there’s a celebration of his life. Drop by and share in the memories. And if you cannot…
Russia moves for N.A. production and banking death blow while Kenney’s agenda disintegrates over-night
The fuckwad UCP’s social license and benefit of the doubt to do as they please to implement the Kenney agenda just expired. Kenney it would appear is out of time…
Remember when Canada was about to become ‘a global energy powerhouse’? So how’d that work out?
Anybody remember Stephen Harper’s plan to turn Canada into “an energy superpower”? That was in July 2006, a dream articulated in Mr. Harper’s first speech abroad as Canada’s prime minister.…
Episode 50: Supervised Consumption Services in Alberta with Dr. Elaine Hyshka
Dr. Elaine Hyshka, associate professor at the University of Alberta School of Public Health, joins Dave Cournoyer to discuss supervised consumption clinics in Alberta and the flaws in the United…
Budget 2020 and the Snake
On Feb 27, 2020 the Kenney government released Budget 2020. The day it was tabled it was under water, less than two weeks later it drowned. It sank beneath the…
Oil Wars or How’s That Pipeline Comin’?
Russia and Saudi Arabia are duking it out and it has sent world oil prices plummeting. The Saudis have been trying to close the taps on oil production in hope…
The Cartel Still Rules … Sort of
It isn’t easy to convince nominally free-market Albertans that monopoly and government interference in the market made us rich, but of course they did. Nothing has contributed more to the…
‘Gave Me Goosebumps’: Praise for Independent Video That Captures Side of Bernie Sanders Corporate Media Ignores
The media bias against Bernie Sanders is not even thinly veiled at MSNBC or CNN. “This video lifts up so many marginalized voices that are consistently downplayed and discounted by…
Wet’suwet’en, BCCLA, and UBCIC Release Explosive Letter Revealing BC Solicitor General Authorizing RCMP Deployment, Contradicting Public Statements
PRESS RELEASE: VANCOUVER/(Musqueam), (Squamish) and Sílwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories, March 6, 2020 – Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs, BC Civil Liberties Association and Union of BC Indian Chiefs are releasing a…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Robert Reich highlights how the long-term costs of failing to invest in a just transition and a healthy society far outweigh the…
Some People Are Immune
During the federal election, the Conservatives ordered Doug Ford to keep his head low and his mouth shut. But, in the wake of that failed strategy, the old Doug Ford…
An Undemocratic Democracy?
Pollister Nick Nanos opines in the G&M that perhaps Canada is a ‘joyless democracy’ and points to the fundamental disconnect between the economic numbers hurled at Canadians and the anxiety…
Well, that was a waste of time.
Ontario liberals have a new leader. It was a fairly decent event. I only caught some parts of it that were streamed on the Internet. It was a good technical…
Talks between Alberta’s docs and government, which went off the rails on Valentine’s Day, are back on again
A big fight with Alberta’s doctors might have seemed like a good idea when the United Conservative Party’s strategic braintrust came up with the plan a few weeks ago. But…
The sweetest thing
My sister is presently training one of our dogs in Rally Obedience, so I am trying to flag any tweets, etc about this sport. And here is one that I…
I’m a doctor and an Infectious Diseases Specialist. I’ve been at this for more than 20 years seeing sick patients on a daily basis.
Taken from Facebook Dr.Abdu Sharkawy I’m a doctor and an Infectious Diseases Specialist. I’ve been at this for more than 20 years seeing sick patients on a daily basis. I…
Alberta should leave Canada if ‘absolute necessities’ not met, Brian Jean says
Former Wildrose Party leader advocates for Premier Jason Kenney to take demands to Ottawa Joel Dryden · CBC News · Posted: Mar 07, 2020 5:03 PM MT | Last Updated:…
March 7: A bad day…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/us-coronavirus-death-toll-washington-state It should be obvious that Trump is wildly incompetent as president. He has made no serious attempt to ensure that everyone has access to health care; and he refuses…
Fantasy and Indoctrination: Rough notes on a few fantasy novels: part two
Here are two more fantasy books that I could not get through. That makes three in a row. And to think, I had a love affair with Terry Brookes’ Shannara…