Palate cleanser
I’m so nervous about the US election, I can hardly think about anything else, and yet thinking about the US election does absolutely no good at all for anyone including…
2020
Cancelling Tommy Douglas
If I had to choose my favourite Canadian, I would without hesitation choose Tommy Douglas, the man most responsible for Medicare, one of Canadians’ two most popular institutions. I’m not…
Forbes Magazine and Our question: Are these the portable microwave weapons criminals are using in Canada ?
The Microwave Weapons That Could Explain criminals in Canada possibly attacking people with impunityhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/10/20/the-microwave-weapons-that-could-explain-why-havana-syndrome-report-is-not-being-released/?sh=2296...
Forbes Magazine and Our question: Are these the portable microwave weapons criminals are using in Canada ?
The Microwave Weapons That Could Explain criminals in Canada possibly attacking people with impunityhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/10/20/the-microwave-weapons-that-could-explain-why-havana-syndrome-report-is-not-being-released/?sh=2296...
Forbes Magazine and Our question: Are these the portable microwave weapons criminals are using in Canada ?
The Microwave Weapons That Could Explain criminals in Canada possibly attacking people with impunity How these weapons work – There is no “conspiracy theory” about these weapons being deployed against…
My latest: the political anniversary everyone wants to forget
An anniversary happened last week. You can be forgiven for missing it. That’s because no one really celebrated it. The Canadian federal general election happened on October 21, 2019. It…
The Cancer Diaries, Part 12
Well, that was easy. Relatively, so. Last Monday I got to remove my catheter all by myself. Not the sort of thing one looks forward to — doing the removing,…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Mariano Zafra and Javier Salas offer a handy visual aid as to how COVID-19 spreads indoors – showing that masking is a…
I Have My Doubts
Max Boot writes that it’s time to destroy the Republican Party: I have watched with incredulity the GOP’s descent into collective madness. Many Republicans I know began by holding their…
Covid Journal, October 29, 2020
Take Your Vitamin D; Covid KO’s the Flu.
The kid who couldn’t.
Sam Oosterhoff MPP, is the youngest person, at 19, to be elected to the Ontario legislature. He might also be the MPP with the most to learn. The member for…
Public inquiry, conducted in secret, gets another extension to find elusive foreign funders of ‘anti-Alberta’ campaigns
Apparently commissioner Steve Allan still isn’t having any luck finding those sinister foreign funders of “anti-energy” campaigns. But don’t worry, the government of Alberta has given the head of its…
Electing Biden isn’t enough
In 2016, Americans embarrassed themselves by electing Donald Trump as their president. Then Trump took over and has embarrassed them ever since. If they want to regain the world’s respect,…
Oct 28: The savagery of wealth
The UN has warned that we are very close to starving to death a whole generation of children in Yemen. Onward Christian soldiers. After I read about this, I came…
How the Cons and the NDP Are Trying To Destroy Team Canada
It couldn't be a worse combination. The coronavirus is surging, and may kill even more Canadians than it did during its first deadly wave. Even as pandemic fatigue sets in,…
On local decisions
I haven’t paid a lot of attention yet to Saskatchewan’s municipal elections, due primarily to the reality that anything which happens at that level can be undone by a provincial…
Strange bedfellows: Trump’s political base
Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally in Arizona. Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr. Earlier in his career the world had watched him with amusement, that people refused to…
The Orwellian deception of the Abraham Accords
The flags of the United States, United Arab Emirates, Israel and Bahrain are screened on the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, September 15, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90. Perhaps the…
Submissions on Bill 168
Shaun Bernstein and Omar Ha-Redeye provided written submissions to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy on Bill 168, Combating Antisemitism Act, 2020 on Oct. 28, 2020. The Cabinet provided an…