A Dumb Dumb Mistake
This week, Rod Phillips returned from his Caribbean Christmas vacation and was dumped from Doug Ford’s cabinet. Steve Paikin writes: When, a few years ago, Rod Phillips announced his intention…
January 2021
Gertz’s Nihilism
A year after coming out with Nihilism and Technology, Dr. Nolen Gertz wrote just plain Nihilism, an “examination of the meaning of meaninglessness: why it matters that nothing matters.” It’s…
Limitless supply, limitless potential
You can safely bet politicians and bureaucrats use the latest computers and communication devices and regularly view high-definition smart TVs that replaced smaller screens weighing one or two hundred pounds.…
Musical interlude
Radical Face – Sunlight
Defiant Kenney on minister’s Hawaiian hijinks: No rules were broken, so no consequences
Aloha, Alberta! Jason Kenney doesn’t give a hoot* what you think. Municipal Affairs Minister Tracy Allard’s Christmas post on Instagram, published while she was in Hawaii (Photo: Instagram). That’s the…
Running Out of Beds Is Only Part of the Problem
With Covid-19 infections surging in several provinces, we’re being warned that hospitals are running out of ICU beds needed to treat severe cases. Some areas could be weeks away from…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your year. – Shawn Micallef highlights how the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the refusal by far too many people to follow a social contract – including…
Happy Birthday to a Fine Gentleman
It’s a huge “happy birthday” to legendary Hull, Que., police detective, Zotique Laframboise. 60 years on and he hasn’t aged a day. If you’re having a WTF moment, there’s some…
What would $9 Million Buy Our Town?
Back a few years ago, the 2010-14 council led by Mayor Cooper approved building for the community several important structures and buying for public ownership several properties, any of which…
how do you read? in which my reading habits unexpectedly change
Librarians like to ask readers about their reading habits. How do you read? What format do you most prefer? Do you have a secondary format? These days, most avid readers…
Political New Year’s fireworks go off as Alberta learns Tracy Allard, minister responsible for vaccine rollout, is just back from Hawaiian vacation
Happy New Year, Alberta! And welcome to the first United Conservative Party Government scandal of 2021: Municipal Affairs Minister Tracy Allard has been caught vacationing in Hawaii, mid-pandemic. Lethbridge-East MLA…