Everything in life is a trade-off. Everything has pros and cons, advantages and pitfalls, clouds and silver linings. I honestly can’t think of anything this rule doesn’t apply to, including…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Graeber wrote (just before his death) about the need to do more than default back to an unacceptable “normal” once the COVID-19…
Wetlands, or marshes, fens, bogs, and swamps, are the link between land and water. Wetlands include trees, grasses, shrubs, moss, and other plants that require at least some water coverage.…
Mark Bulgutch is mystified about Ontario’s vaccination program. He writes: I readily admit some things are beyond my understanding. I don’t understand black holes in space for example. I don’t…
The photo may not look like much, just a column of light falling on a bedroom wall, but it means that spring is almost here. Every year about the first…
That is a tough one. The quote from Shakespeare is something about ‘Uneasy hangs the head that wears the Crown.’ It just seems even better when you are referring to…
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Spiritbox – Constance
I can now reveal the big news: my mom has gotten her first shot of the Pfizer vaccine at Michael Garron hospital! She, and we, are pretty happy. Heading back…
Checking the score cards on vaccinations the other day, I found I am in the top two per cent of Ontario residents. It is embarrassing. Ontario only has about four…
Happy Coronaversary, everyone! Yes, it has been one full year since the Coronavirus – eventually renamed the much catchier COVID-19 – first landed in Alberta. The Edmonton Sun welcomed our…
After nearly a year of a declared pandemic (and several months of inaction before that), far too little has changed in Saskatchewan’s political discussion of our response to COVID-19. In…
The NDP must be a party of workers, but that doesn’t mean showing undying reverence to the interests of Canada’s business owning class. Image by Canadian Dimension. This piece is…
Assorted content to end your week. – Kenyon Wallace reports on new modelling showing a real risk of yet another wave of COVID spread in Ontario – even as widespread…
I have to admit that I like pizza a lot. Well, I guess most of us do. I like cheese, and I liked cooked cheese even more, and I like…
Wearing a mask during the pandemic is not an impossible burden. Paul Krugman writes: We’ve made a lot of progress against the pandemic over the past couple of months. But…
Back on Wednesday I joined Rob Snow on CityNews Ottawa radio’s “The Rob Snow Show” along with Kate Harrison for the “Political Fix” panel. We talked the about the current…
On March 5, 1963, 30-year-old singer Patsy Cline was killed in a plane crash – one of the first musical losses I can remember, though far from the last. Here…
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions President Linda Silas, an engaging and articulate public voice for a national drug insurance plan, enhanced public health care, and the rights of all working…
Humans crave certainty. We want reliable. We want predictable. We pay a premium for that, if we can afford it, and it’s going to become increasingly costly. Like it or…
