Doug Ford’s Scary Con Clown Covid Show
As I'm sure you know, I have always believed that the Con clown Doug Ford is totally unfit to be the Premier of Canada's largest and most powerful province. And…
March 2021
Alberta—big winner of Covid relief
The Covid pandemic has, among other things, reminded us that we are indeed “all in it together,” requiring government leadership and assistance unprecedented in recent history. According to a report…
Guiding Lights In A Collapsing World
Who are some of the guiding lights in terms of what must be done? I would suggest Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Emerson, Thoreau, Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Bookchin, EF Schumacher,…
Freedom, Democracy & Education
If you value compassion or human decency, then you should value education – not indoctrination. And if you value education, then you must value truth above comforting illusions or denial,…
1966, The Best Year For Cars
Letter to Jay Leno (Jay Leno’s Garage) Hi Jay, I absolutely love your show, I have to say. And it’s funny you say 1966 is your favourite year for cars.…
Is It Too Much to Ask of the Incompetents Who Run this Country and Our Provinces?
Remember this time last year when we were shocked at the plight of nursing home patients dying from Covid-19? Oh boy, that was just the worst. Things were going to…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Katie Raso describes the coronavirus pandemic as the neoliberal Chernobyl, having exposed how we’re not only unable to respond to a disaster…
… and Kenney Called The NDP "Ideological"
So, today the Kenney government took the wraps off its proposed K-6 school curriculum: https://curriculum.learnalberta.ca/curriculum/en *I can’t guarantee how long this link will be viable, so screenshots will be used…
Mending The World As Jewish Anarchists: Book Launch & Discussion April 29
Event by Independent Jewish Voices Canada Online: ijvcanada.zoom.us Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 7 PM EDT Price: Free Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/475037173664163 Join Independent Jewish Voices Canada for the launch of…
My latest: little PMO shop of horrors
ACT ONE KATIE TELFORD, CHIEF OF STAFF: Prime Minister, we have good news and bad news. TRUDEAU : What’s the bad news? TELFORD: Our vaccine deal with the Chinese fell…
Lana Del Rey’s American dream
American singer-songwriter and record producer Lana Del Rey performs at the Planeta Terra Festival in São Paulo, Brazil, November 9, 2013. Photo by Beatriz Alvani/Wikimedia Commons. Two of America’s best…
Faster, Stronger, Better?
Glen Pearson throws out a few numbers for our consideration: It took Apple 42 years to reach $1 trillion in value and 20 weeks to get from that point to…
UN: After the Pandemic Sustainable Cities will Succeed
Like the rest of the world, the United Nations is looking forward to the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and they’re projecting what our future may hold. The UN sees…
Talking the Latest on the COVID Vaccination Rollout with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Jason Lietaer for the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the latest on the rollout of…
Women rule
The best music being created in pop/rock right now is being created by women. It isn’t even a debate. https://t.co/cyEI6Xnsao https://t.co/V6lY0Vf7I4 https://t.co/aUmu1j90NO https://t.co/bjtoDjMtzJ https://t.co/O5xhpA3ank https://t.co/FWW9Q7YR9C — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March…
Pick your battles.
If you want to win, in war or in politics, you pick the battles you can win. Losers fight any battle that comes along. It is the problem facing the…
Few Albertans are likely to be pleased by the UCP’s ‘jaw-droppingly misguided’ K-6 social studies curriculum
Wherever one may fall on the question of traditional arithmetic versus the kinds of new math that frustrate many parents or the value of phonetics over other ways to learn…
Expert haiku
Waxing facials areLike pedicures manicuresPay for them yourself – Warren Haikus, Inc. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 30, 2021
A World Gone Mad? The Rise of Antiscience Across the Right Wing.
What does it mean when your political philosophy depends on self-serving opinion at odds with fact? An article in Scientific American warns of the rise of “antiscience” birthed among America’s…
Decentralization Or Collapse
To halt the decline of our civilization and stop our race toward ecological, economic and social collapse, we must sow and create a paradigm shift, a shift in the dominant…