Philosophy, Being and Reality
Some reading on the subject of philosophy, ontology, epistemology, metaphysics and the nature of reality that I’d recommend: Choosing Reality, by Allan Wallace, Dreamtime and Inner Space, by Holgar Kalweit,…
January 2021
Remote Comments
I’ve had an idea in the back of my mind for a long time now, and as I get closer to a real-world gRSShopper other people can actually use I…
Covid Journal, January 30, 2021
In a dog-eat-dog world, what happens when companies are in breach of contract? Lawsuits. Lots of lawsuits. It’s time we stop playing the political blame game and consider the legal…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jerusalem Demsas discusses the strong popular support for affordable social housing even as governments continually fail to provide it. Daphne Bramham rightly asks…
Musings on Making Pasta No. 1
Long-time readers here may recall that I used to post about making my own pasta and bread quite frequently some years back. Last spring when I was diagnosed with…
There’s an Idea! Let’s Make Our Own Vaccines.
Dr. Alan Bernstein, head of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, says Canada needs something we haven’t had since Mulroney allowed Connaught Labs to be sold off. He wants Canada…
Conservative partisans, explained in one tweet
#CPC partisans’ excuses for losing:• the media are always mean to us • Trudeau will never lose • our leader will never win • Canadian voters are stupid • I’m…
Saturday Photo: Time to Get Outside…
Snow and cold temperatures must not keep us inside in this winter of our discontent. Here are footsteps in the snow, showing that a lot of people are fed up…
Big Money In Big Pharma
The pandemic has been a windfall for Big Pharma. The Trudeau government was planning to roll out a national pharmacare program. Central to that effort was The Patented Medicine Prices…
Eva Cray
When I was president at Carleton’s student association, we students didn’t agree on much. But we all agreed that the person we all adored was Eva Cray. RIP.
You can’t do one without the other.
It was an amusing op-ed the other morning in the Toronto Star by Bob Hepburn. Not only is Bob late to the lists but his suggestion regarding our governor general…
The Grand Chief and Grand Council of the Mi’kmaw
Grand Council Flag I have previously written about the hereditary chief traditions of certain West Coast First Nations. Little did I know at the time that the East Coast also…
With infectious new COVID-19 strains on the march, Alberta Premier caves to business and eases health restrictions
With more infectious new variants of the novel coronavirus now spreading in Western Canada, Premier Jason Kenney chose yesterday to advise Albertans that next Friday the province will ease the…
Trump and the definition of fascism
Is Donald Trump a fascist? He has been accused of being one, including by me in previous posts, but the left is inclined to label conservatives they particularly dislike as…
Canada will not be getting any vaccines anytime soon
@justintrudeau said this would never happen. It just happened. “Coronavirus: EU confirms new vaccine export controls” #cdnpoli #lpc #cpc #ndp https://t.co/pz849huHrq — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 29, 2021
Musical interlude
Joywave – Doubt
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about the even greater urgency to get to COVID zero as more dangerous strains of the virus spread in Canada.…
Trump Unmasked?
It has become popular in some circles to dismiss all the evidence that Donald Trump was, perhaps unwittingly, in service to the Kremlin. These types seem to overlook how much…
Public Confidence in Trudeau is Flagging
The longer the Covid vaccine fiasco drags on the worse it becomes for Justin Trudeau. Mr. Trudeau has been long on assurances, the more vague the better, but falls far…
The New Renaissance Women and Men
For thousands of years, philosophers and others have been asking questions such as, What is a just society? What is virtue? What is a virtuous life? What is the good…