The 100th Birthday Middle Finger
It’s mid-February and we’re close to a full year into this bloody COVID pandemic. Here in Eastern Ontario, we’re getting hit with our largest snowstorm of the season so far…
February 2021
The 100th Birthday Middle Finger
It’s mid-February and we’re close to a full year into this bloody COVID pandemic. Here in Eastern Ontario, we’re getting hit with our largest snowstorm of the season so far…
When Grids Fail
Climate change is the mortal enemy of public infrastructure – the highways, railways, ports and electrical grids we (i.e. our parents and grandparents) built to facilitate our modern economies. The…
As a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic, CVRD Board and Committee meetings are being held electronically.
The CVRD has decided to ‘Allow’ up to 5 citizens who may pre-register to join the meeting to participate in Public Input Period or Question Period. Create an Account –…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kamran Abbasi makes the case to treat the avoidable deaths resulting from the mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic as a form of…
A Long Way From The End
Ontario is re-opening its economy today — again. Brooks Fallis writes that we are on the brink of a third wave: Canada sits at a pandemic crossroads. Second waves are…
Condos Looking to the Ground for Energy
When you think about geothermal power you may think of giant installations benefiting from the heat the earth produces; however much smaller geothermal setups exist. These smaller systems are often…
Canadian Heritage Moments: the Shawinigan handshake
Twenty-five years ago today! Can you remember where you were when this happened? I sure do! I was listening to Team Martin spox Susan Delacourt announce on TV that this…
Talking COVID Vaccination Priorities in Stage Two with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Kate Harrison & Lindsay Maskell for a rare Thursdays mini-“Political Heat” panel. We talked about the news of federal…
Talking COVID Vaccination Priorities in Stage Two with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Kate Harrison & Lindsay Maskell for a rare Thursdays mini-“Political Heat” panel. We talked about the news of federal…
Basic income is not dead.
As much as the Toronto Star and others might want to bury the concept of basic income, it is very much alive. When someone puts what they think basic income…
With the Taliban on the cusp of controlling Afghanistan once again, we owe it to our dead to ask, ‘Was it worth it?’
Yesterday morning, the New York Times reported the Taliban is on the cusp of total victory in Afghanistan. The Times being the Times, of course, it didn’t put it quite…
Thanks
Took a day off from all things Internet-related. Good therapy. Thanks to all of you for the kind notes and messages, public and private. Back into the breach.
The truth
I can’t get past the fact Canada is currently ranked 45th in terms of vaccinations per capita, and yet Liberal partisans still keep insisting the plan is working. I mean,…
The Vaccine Hysteria and the Angry Old Men
On the frontlines of the Covid nightmare, it's the belief that keeps many totally exhausted health workers from collapsing. The belief that whatever our differences, we're all in this one…
Should Children be Recruited in Party Politics?
I found these lines in Brian Saunderson’s latest job-hunting email somewhat tone deaf: It is also interesting that a 14-year-old can purchase a membership and vote in the Nomination process.…
Illness Experiences + Emotions = Treatment Choices
Me with my Dad One day when I was 17, I was home alone with my Dad. I was lying on my bed reading and Dad was in his living…
Our annual Family Day toast to Don Getty, whose best-known achievement was one for the ages
The winters around here are long. Even with social media Canadians need a February holiday. Come to think of it, given what the Internet has turned into in the few…
The Cognoscenti Syndrome
There is a group of people I think of as the Cognoscenti, people who are well educated, very informed and of rapidly diminishing relevance. Their ranks include writers such as…