Canute-like Kenney confronts Canadians.
In the supposedly moralistic story of King Canute of the North Sea Empire, Canute was demonstrating that even a king could not control the tides. It is somewhat strange that…
April 2021
Robertson Davies and Alice Walker: A Review By Someone Who Has Never Read A Single Word They Have Written
Such a delightfully warm and witty man, Robertson Davies seems most definitely to be. He looks so severe, when you first look at his face, but then he speaks, and…
The Shifting Ground – Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Redundancy of the Human Species.
For generations, centuries, the horse and oxen were the muscle of agriculture. They ploughed the fields, harvested the grain and delivered the crop to market. For their time (and they…
Easter in Alberta
Whether you observe Easter, Passover, or the rising of the first full moon after the spring equinox, this is the time of year when we emerge from the gloom of…
Punk Easter, maaaan
Punk rock Easter dinner from East and Main. Wine by my neighbors.
Biden is playing an apocalyptic game of chicken with China
The USS Ronald Reagan and USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Groups steam in formation in the South China Sea, July 6, 2020. US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class…
Alberta’s draft curriculum will make the province a laughingstock
The United Conservative Party’s new draft K-6 curriculum is plagued with basic errors and out-of-sequence historical narratives. Photo courtesy Jason Kenney/Twitter. Leaving aside the stomach-clutching hilarity of some parts of…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about Canada’s contributions to the evidence showing how COVID-zero strategies have produced better results in terms of both health…
As cases grow, so too do fears that this third wave will be amplified by long-weekend travel
It seems that we have been chasing COVID 19 instead of proactively shutting down the risk factors. Our federal and provincial governments have called for and supported closing our borders…
The Vaccination Rollout In Canada Is Being Botched – Deliberately
As a third wave of COVID is about to clobber Canada, I want to talk a bit about why this is completely unnecessary, and likely as not has more to…
Hey, COVID protesters. Here’s a lesson in tyranny.
It has become an almost weekly event here in Alberta, and in other parts of the Mediocre White North, for a small group of malcontents to gather in protest of…
Are Creationists Gaining More Sway?
A recent survey by Research Co. and Glacier Media shows a deeply disturbing trend in Canadians: we seem to be getting increasingly stupid. While this survey didn’t get the media…
Locked down or locked up?
It feels like being kept after school because some one else broke the rules. It feels like a piling on of detentions. Now premier Doug Ford has added another four…
Plague Update: Hockey Canary
The Quebec Remparts are among five QMJHL teams forced to suspend team activities due to positive COVID-19 tests. https://t.co/mDZhsb4hrt — CBC News (@CBCNews) April 4, 2021 The WHL is carrying…
Happy Easter! A time of astonishing negligence, incompetence and mismanagement by Alberta’s UCP Government
Happy Easter 2021! It being Easter Sunday, presumably the flock at GraceLife Church in Parkland County will pack into their pews inside their barn-like rolled-steel worship centre southwest of Edmonton…
Us vs. Them
Canada? 131,761. #cdnpoli #TrudeauVaccineFailure https://t.co/MTocEPgVOk — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 3, 2021