If This Is A Recruiting Video
… Lorne from Bellville needs a major rewrite. Johnny “Austin” Fondue @EatsFood2 Freedom Fighter Lorne from Belleville gets some rapid antigen tests and is confused by the box… #belleville #antivaxxers…
December 2021
Somewhere There Is Light
Rebecca Solnit’s new book is titled Orwell’s Roses. Dorothy Woodend writes that it is a book for our times: If you need some prickly bits of hope and thorny rationality…
Omicron hits Vancouver Island-137 new COVID-19 cases reported in Island Health
Originally published bu the Victoria-Times Colonist By C E Harnett Once again BC behind the play. Booster shots needed now, not next year sometime. RH Specimens to be tested…
With Omicron, it’s time for Canada to support global access to COVID vaccines
A vial of the COVID-19 vaccine is prepared to be administered at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, December 21, 2020. DOD Photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st…
German elections: Change, no change
Germany’s Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals want to form a government but are unable to come up with a program that would at least point in the direction of fixing…
Brampton Brown Battles Bigotry.
We just heard that Brampton mayor Patrick Brown has waded into the war with Quebec over their Law 21. That is the law that the provincial bigots in the Quebec…
N.W.T. drops Alberta school curriculum, adopts B.C.’s – a powerful symbol of what’s gone awry under Jason Kenney
The news release from the Northwest Territories Government doesn’t even mention Alberta, but just the same it’s a powerful symbol of what’s gone awry in the province to the south…
Twas the night before a Covid Christmas!
As seen on Facebook: A Covid Christmas Twas the night before Christmas, but Covid was here, So we all had to stay extra cautious this year. Our masks were all…
Cowichan author of report on indigenous children being removed from families frustrated with lack of action
Originally published by the Cowichan Citizen By ROBERT BARRON Cowichan Tribes’ member Madeline Joe is frustrated that almost nothing has been done to implement the recommendations of the Q’ushin’tul (Walking…
I am a gnome without a home.
By Ulli Meng I am a gnome without a home. Once through the forests did I roam, living happily in a tree in the Rainforest of B.C. The mother tree…
what i’m reading: digital minimalism: choosing a focused life in a noisy world
Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World is an essential book for our time. Newport argues — quite persuasively — that smartphones and their constant…
Covid Journal, Day 623-ish (or Dec 16, 2021 edition)
Encouraging us all to spread joy and not Covid this holiday season. Here are just seven easy suggestions for our ‘powers that be’ about how to help us average folks…
Legal Tweet of the Day: December 16, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Man exonerated in the killing of Malcolm X sues New York state for $20 million #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Wallace-Wells discusses the alarming warning indicators from our still-developing understanding of the Omicron COVID variant. Nazeem Muhajarine writes about the importance…
More Greed: Council Votes Itself More Money Again
At its most recent budget meeting, Dec. 13, our perpetually greedy council voted 5-3 to increase their own individual expense accounts from $4,000 a year to a staggering $5,500. That’s…
More fibs from the Fraser Institute
Fraser’s typical line is to depict Canada’s economic order as some sort of progressive spending frenzy which needs to be countermanded by severe austerity. This is not true. Image by…
A Long Way to Go
On Tuesday, Chrystia Freeland delivered a virtual fiscal update. That was a sign of the times. Heather Scoffield writes: It was ominous and telling that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland had…
As UN recognizes Maduro, Canada increasingly isolated on world stage
In this UNTV image, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro speaks in a pre-recorded video message during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, September 23, 2020, at UN…
The Long Walk.
There is something cleansing about a walking interview with a good reporter. Susan Delacourt did a long interview with Justin Trudeau recently, while they were walking in the snow in…
NYT – Has America Passed Democracy’s Tipping Points? Finis?
Times columnist Thomas Edsall writes that the United States may have parted company with democracy – for good. I think, at some level, most of us already realize this. Political…