Mick Jagger and the Art of the Pandemic
Soon after the Great Plague began I started collecting bits and pieces of pandemic art, so that one day I could remember that it wasn't all darkness. And that not…
April 2021
April 28: Never underestimate the power of greed.
It was ever thirty years ago the I last visited China. It was then a land of old and battered housing. There was wide poverty. Today it is a land…
Who controls the basic income narrative?
It is time to stop making excuses and tackle poverty head on, writes New Democratic Party MP Leah Gazan. Basic income is a policy whose time has come. Image by…
Legal Tweet of the Day: April 29, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: BC Judge says host of makeshift nightclub’s illegal gathering a ‘crime, not a party’ via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Trudeau abandons promised LTC standards, bowing to for-profit care agenda
Canada has had the highest number, among all OECD nations, of long-term care home deaths attributable to COVID-19, and the pandemic has spawned a broad consensus that how we care…
Shooting Ones-Self in the Foot in Milton
As someone who spent a lot of time working and volunteering in politics, there are certain things that I have come to both appreciate and shake my head at, sometimes…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk calls for us to learn from over a year’s worth of experience with COVID-19 and guard against aerosol spread to…
Saunderson Follows Stalin’s Lead
In the 1930s, the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin removed his political rivals and enemies from history. Literally: he had their images brushed out of photographs, their names removed from books.…
India’s COVID crisis shows why Canada needs to oppose vaccine monopolies
On April 28, India’s official death toll climbed past 200,000, while authorities recorded 362,757 infections in a 24-hour period, bringing the total number of cases to more than 17.9 million.…
Green Roofs: The Bigger the Better
Every post this week has been about roofs, we looked at white, blue, and soy roofs. Let’s not forget about the classic green roof. The classic green roof is tried…
How the Romanov dynasty bested Doug Ford in pandemic management
The Romanov dynasty, which ruled Russia from 1613 until 1917, managed a pandemic in the late-18th century more effectively than the Doug Ford government in Ontario. Image from Wikimedia Commons.…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Is a foreign Will valid in Ontario?
This depend on the Will itself. Some factors to consider are: 1. Does the Will intend to apply to property in Ontario? 2. Can the words of the Will be…
Finally . . . Maybe
We may be on the cusp of a national childcare program. Why has it taken so long to get here? Susan Delacourt writes that all three of our major parties…
Determining Democracy.
Measuring democracy in any country is like measuring the depth of a fast-moving stream with a wood ruler. In a country where few know democracy, is there a measure? In…
We Need New Names for Stupid
I was reading a story in CollingwoodToday about another anti-mask/anti-lockdown protest recently — this one in Barrie, Sat. April 24 — and thought to myself that our language does not…
#TBT: Palma Violets and Hot Nasties!
#TBT: that time @SFHPunks opened for the Palma Violets, and then they played a @HotNasties song! (And they issued a limited release of it too!) pic.twitter.com/TIlC38bCBN — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren)…
Latest in #SaveSTC
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release, April 28, 2021 Canadian Transportation Agency rules favourably in decision In a precedent making decision in Canada, the Canadian Transportation Agency ruled against “Rider Express”.…
Alberta heads into record-breaking territory as new COVID-19 cases surpass second-wave record set in December
Pandemic cases in Alberta are breaking records. CBC reporter Robson Fletcher’s daily accounting of the latest Alberta Health Services estimates indicated that probable and confirmed new cases of COVID-19 reached…
Lesson to be learned
A Bloomberg Quicktake video, How Boeing Lost Its Way (embedded below) put me in mind of BC Hydro. Years ago, both companies were effective in delivering value for money to…