Want to be Successful? Spend Time with Your Friends
Are you worried you aren’t successful? Don’t be! The greatest success one can have is found in their social network, and size doesn’t matter. According to a 75-year long study…
April 2021
Walking in Ottawa: The Glebe and Landsdowne Park
A spring afternoon walk in Ottawa down Bank Street and through Landsdowne Park, including a look into TD Place Stadium, and then up O’Connor Street.
A few fools foul racial relations.
It is outrageous to hear that there are increased incidences of racial hatred in our Canada. It is, admittedly, a time of serious stresses on our society, but I can…
On a wing and a prayer, Alberta reluctantly adopts stricter measures to counter frightening upswing in coronavirus variants
Faced with rising infection rates and a frightening upswing in coronavirus variants, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney reluctantly announced a return to somewhat stricter measures to control the spread of COVID-19…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Alert cats.
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Aaron Wherry discusses how the pandemic response across far too much of Canada has been (increasingly) marked by political calculation and triangulation…
Anti-carbon tax Government attacks hundreds of EV owners with a new tax
Saskatchewan Government will start charging EV owners $150 a year. The Minister who removed the EV incentive almost a decade ago took his next job as Canada’s top oil and…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Apr. 6, 2021
NOTE: If you currently send the updates to Chip Fitzgerald, please stop. After 51 years in prison, and directly resulting from medical neglect by the state, Chip recently died in…
FINAL Prison Covid Newsletter (vol 2, no 5), April 2021
The Prison Covid-19 Information Project provides COVID-19 news and resources for prisoners and their families and loved ones on the outside. Their April newsletter will be their final edition. It…
Covid-19 tales
Hostility to commonly accepted health practices does not come only from the foolish and the uniformed. The New Yorker published Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment, which shows highly educated policy makers can…
The Cancer Diaries, Part 27
I didn’t really expect the hormones to be so disruptive of my daily activities, but there are times when the “hot flashes” interrupt everything. They tire me out, sometimes making…
Why Are The Cons Supporting The Language Bigots in Quebec?
As we all know Erin O'Toole is growing more and more desperate. His newser this morning was a horror show. He's lying like a thief, his polls are tanking, his…
Council Rewards Its Friend. Again.
Our council has found yet another way to reward its friend, despite the recommendations in the report from the Saunderson Vindictive Judicial Inquiry (aka the SVJI) warning about “apparent” conflicts…
Another Example of Why Candidate Vetting Matters
As someone who was blessed to work on Parliament Hill for close to a decade, there are certain things that I have come to appreciate over time that I might…
Is "Jesus Fever" Finally Breaking in America?
America’s Old Testament Taliban, a.k.a. Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists, are finally losing ground. But they won’t go without a fight. Just 47% of the US population are members of a…
Seeing Through The Code
For decades, Republicans talked in code. Welfare meant help to people of colour. Opposition to communism really stood for help to the military-industrial complex. Then they elected Donald Trump, who…
People Share What They Changed Their Attitude to Unions
In America anti-union sentiment is strong due to the marketing efforts of large business owners that don’t like paying workers. Amazon’s anti-union efforts are a great example of this. In…
My latest: Hitler, Hillier and hate
What would Hitler do? That’s what preoccupies Randy Hillier, apparently. Hillier is a member of the Ontario legislature. He doesn’t belong to any political party, because Doug Ford kicked him…
Talking the Third Wave of COVID-19 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 third wave…
Trudeau building bridges in Quebec.
It is rare that prime minister Justin Trudeau would be considered best friends with Quebec premier François Legault. It is just that timing is everything in politics. If Trudeau’s liberals…