Wash Your Hands, Dammit!
Wash early, wash often. That’s said to be the best way to minimize your chance of contracting Covid-19. But how much is enough? Ask Round Rock: I think that’s pretty…
2020
A Missing Sense Of Urgency
After taking it out of the library twice, I have finally mustered the psychic strength to begin reading Bill McKibben’s Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Owen Jones asks why we’re not treating the existential threat of a climate breakdown with anything close to the urgency applied to the…
Failure-ology
Why did Justin Trudeau lose a million votes in the 2019 election? Why did he lose his majority? Why did he lose his standing in the world, and with Canadians?…
Net Zero plus Net Zero is still Zero.
This is a time to be a sceptic. When somebody tells you Canada will be net zero in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 30 years, give them the raspberry. Do…
Coronavirus discovered in Alberta just as politics trumps science in supervised drug clinic report
COVID-19 has arrived in Alberta. But first, we need to talk about how the United Conservative Party Government has found a nearly perfect formula for dealing with science when it…
Epidemic Podcast
This is from the US but still relevant information in Canada. RH 2 episodes EPIDEMIC is a new, weekly podcast on the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19). Hear from some…
On the Subject of Pandemics
The illness and death toll from the coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it is now known, steadily advances. As I write, the bug has sickened over 95,000 people and killed over…
Climate Emergency: A 26-Week Transition Program for Canada (Video)
Climate Emergency: A 26-Week Transition Program for Canada by Guy Dauncey FRSA, PIBC (Hon) What could the government of Canada do if its Ministers, MPs and civil servants knew that…
A Shell insider is behind LNG Canada’s disputed claim about reducing carbon pollution
We have been spoon-fed misinformation from the industry and our provincial and federal governments. Going back to the former Christy Clark BC Liberal government up to and including the present…
New column day
Here, on the Saskatchewan Party’s refusal to accept that nuclear power is as impractical as it is unpopular – and how that fits into the view the province’s voters should…
Wash Your Hands
Green Party of Canada Yesterday at 10:43 · Please save the face masks for those who actually need them– health professionals & patients. Here are some much more effective health…
How Hate Had To Surrender To Our Canadian Values
The railway blockades have been a real test of Canada's character, a measure of its Canadian values.With most favouring compromise and negotiation over the use of force. While others screamed…
Now It’s a Race
It was just earlier today that I wrote about some of the events of the past couple of days in the Conservative Leadership race. While those two stories were interesting…
Coronavirus Update – Panic or Propaganda? Both? Or Simply Mass Insanity? All The Above
As of today, the mass media hype and hysteria over the latest exotic virus continues to spread, unabated. In its wake, mass insanity is spreading nearly as fast. Let’s step…
Democratic establishment deals Super Tuesday blow to Bernie Sanders, but race is far from over
Nurses and friends turned out in support of Bernie Sanders in Los Angeles, California, March 1, 2017, two days before Super Tuesday. Photo by National Nurses United. Super Tuesday did…
Starving for Compassion
My time working in politics showed me a lot of things and exposed me to a lot of situations. But one thing that I saw too much of that I…
Cost savings associated with Housing First
I’ve written a summary of a recent study I co-authored on savings to the health and justice sectors associated with Housing First (i.e., the immediate provision of subsidized housing, along…
Contracting out employment services in Ford’s Ontario
Ontario premier Doug Ford. Photo from Flickr. Ontario’s self-styled government-for-the-people has announced new “prototype” projects to run social service employment programs. Prototype service managers were revealed in February for Hamilton-Niagara,…
Fantasy and Indoctrination: Rough notes on a few fantasy novels: part one
New Spring, The Novel: The Wheel Of Time: In The Beginning – Robert Jordan (so the cover says) (Lord of the Rings films and Terry Brookes Shannara novels got me…