The Rob Douglas Candidacy Is Good News For the Cowichan Valley
Friends, My name is Caelen Cook. I am the Youth Representative for the Cowichan Valley BC NDP. Most of you don’t know me, because I haven’t been a New Democrat…
2020
Canada does not need more warplanes
An F-35 Lightning II employs a Guided Bomb Unit-12 (GBU-12) Paveway II laser-guided weapon from the internal weapons bay against a fixed ground tank test target at a test range…
“Cheezies and Cartoons”
Having worked in politics for close to a decade and having worked over a dozen campaigns in the last 15 or so years, it gets hard to shock me anymore…
September 29: The price of our pandering to the super rich.
https://www.etfo.ca/AboutETFO/MediaRoom/MediaReleases/Pages/Ford%20government%E2%80%99s%20return%20to%20school%20plan%20unravelling%20because%20it%20refuses%20to%20fund%20smaller%20class%20sizes%20to%20keep%20students,%20educat.aspx My home province, Ontario, has a premier who is Donald Trump’s twin brother. His name is Doug Ford. ______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/sep/23/aid-agencies-warn-of-covid-19-crisis-in-refugee-camps-as-winter-approaches Our wars have pushed tens of millions – probably…
Is This the New Face of California?
The Glass Mountain Inn on the Silverado Trail north of Napa. This is the inn as it once was
Eileen McGann-No Country’s Law and Too Stupid For Democracy
Eileen McGann, a talented and accomplished artist and singer/musician is joined by her husband David K. Enjoy ‘No Country’s Law’ followed by ‘Too Stupid For Democracy’ Humour, music…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Economist highlights the public health steps governments need to be taking while we wait for vaccines and therapies to make the…
Covid Journal, Sept 29, 2020
Are we getting more ‘false positives’ with Covid testing? Will the so-called ‘second wave’ bring about more harsh restrictions on supporting local businesses, generating more upward movement of wealth around…
Failure in Priorities
It amazes me how sometimes a few little pieces of information that could seem completely unrelated can help to tie a story together. It was just yesterday here at this…
Time to free Canada’s long-term care system from its backward history
81 percent of COVID-19 deaths in Canada were in long-term care, nearly double the OECD average. Photo from Flickr. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the failure of Canada’s long-term care…
It’s Here
The second COVID wave has arrived in Ontario. And things are not going well. Bruce McArthur writes: On Monday, Ontario recorded a pandemic-record 700 new COVID-19 cases, and the premier…
This Shoe Company Celebrates Its Carbon Footprint
A new UK-based shoe company, Allbirds, wants you to know it cares about your carbon footprint. The clothing industry alone is estimated to contribute 4% of the global greenhouse gas…
I am ANTIFA and proud of it.
Donald Trump and his fascist supporters in the United States have been complaining about the antifascist and the radical left causing the recent troubles in the U.S.A. Listening to that…
Talking the State of Ontario’s COVID Response with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison & Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the newest COVID-19 numbers in Ontario,…
No Country’s Laws – Eileen McGann
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Fossil fuels may be fading, but Alberta stands ready to supply bad economic ideas to Canada and the world
VICTORIA — We Albertans can be enormously proud, I guess, of our continuing influence on the Dominion. We surely must be the leading exporter of ridiculous, potentially destructive ideas in…
One million dead
From the New York Times, here. Read this. It’s apocalyptic. And the writing is extraordinary. More than H.I.V. More than dysentery. More than malaria, influenza, cholera and measles — combined.…
North Cowichan lacks ‘depth of experience’ at engagement, says First Nations consultant
Originally published by https://www.sixmountains.ca The president of a consulting firm that provided early advice on North Cowichan’s engagement with First Nations on the Municipal Forest Reserve says the municipality lacks…
Attacking the substance: A review of Young, Banerjee, and Schwartz’s ‘Levers of Power’
Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It Kevin A. Young, Tarun Banerjee, and Michael Schwartz Verso, 2020 In their new book Levers…