April 2021
Is India a Threat to Us All?
What happens in India does not stay in India. Thanks, in part, to a rightwing government that downplayed the Covid pandemic, India’s limited healthcare system has been overwhelmed. Out of…
North Cowichan Council To Review Low Tree Poaching Penalties
North Cowichan to review low penalties for tree poaching CHEK News reports on the issue North Cowichan is conducting a review of its bylaw penalties for illegal cutting of trees…
george floyd + 1,000 others annually: justice is not possible, but accountability might help
Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd, was found guilty on all charges. At long last, after millions protested around the country and the world, a police officer…
A post-pandemic social peace accord?
There is no golden age of reciprocity ahead, writes John Clarke. The capitalist system is in crisis and a capacity to rebound and broker peace deals is lacking. Still image…
what i’m reading: sometimes you have to lie: the life and times of louise fitzhugh, renegade author of harriet the spy
Until very recently, I didn’t know anything about Louise Fitzhugh and had not thought about her at all. Of course, as a child I read and loved Harriet the Spy,…
Saunderson’s Epic Blunder
A blunder of epic proportions? A sobering display of supreme incompetence and ineptitude? A total failure of communications, direction, and leadership? An underhanded excuse to hand our municipal water services…
Something For Everybody
Chrystia Freeland’s budget has something for everybody. Michael Harris goes into the details: The star of this 739-page budget? The federal government will also spend $30 billion over the next…
B.S. for the Beer Store.
You wonder sometimes if anyone is ever going to tell the truth about Ontario’s Beer Store. For more than 90 years, this restrictive system of selling beer has been foisted…
What if we all get Covid-19? Why vaccines are the cure to contagion
Historically, vaccines have arguably been one of the biggest success stories of the human race – and the story of Covid-19 will be no different. Despite this, there is a…
Just have a think!
Dave Borlace opened a YouTube channel in 2018 to review the science behind climate debates and discover what is being done to avoid catastrophe. In the first minute of his…
Review of David Lewis’s Memoir, "The Good Fight".
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5774639-the-good-fight" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="The Good Fight: Political Memoirs, 1909 1958" src="https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc...
Review of David Lewis’s Memoir, "The Good Fight".
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5774639-the-good-fight" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="The Good Fight: Political Memoirs, 1909 1958" src="https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc...
Review of David Lewis’s Memoir, "The Good Fight".
<a href=”https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5774639-the-good-fight” style=”float: left; padding-right: 20px”><img border=”0″ alt=”The Good Fight: Political Memoirs, 1909 1958″ src=”https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111×148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png” /></a><a href=”https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5774639-the-good-fight”>The Good Fight: Political Memoirs, 1909 1958</a> by <a href=”https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8554737.David_Lewis”>David Lewis</a><br/><br /><br /> <br/><br/><a…
Justin Trudeau And Team Canada’s Great Vaccine Offensive
It wasn't easy to secure enough vaccines for Canadians in the early days of the pandemic. A person I know who had a front row seat described it as something…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Fahad Razak, David Naylor and Arthur Slutsky discuss how it’s not too late to pull our health care system back from the brink…
Ineptitude Writ Large
H/t Patrick Corrigan Sometimes I feel embarrassed to be living in a province as benighted as Ontario. But then I realize that it is neither me nor my fellow citizens…
See, they are crazy. Tory MP Equates Covid Lockdowns with WWII Internment Camps.
And the Nutjob du Jour award goes to some dude named David Sweet, Conservative member of parliament for the riding of Flambo-Clusterf**k. The Tory shadow minister for international rights and…
And the winner is … who cares?
The Academy Awards – Oscar to his friends – airs this Sunday. Are you excited? No? OK, mildly interested? No, not even that? Indifferent or openly hostile? Yeah, that sounds…