The Morning After: The Bluenose Surprise That’s Shaking #Elxn44
I’ve had a lot to say here in this place about the dangers of going to an election right now for the Federal Liberals and why they should have continued…
2021
A Full Frontal Assault
Conservatives — particularly American Republicans — argue that we simply can’t afford to reduce CO2 emissions. Paul Krugman cites four reasons why they’re wrong: First, the U.S. economy has consistently…
Philosophers Help Scientists do Better Work
Some empiricists argue that science is a separate discipline from philosophy, and those thinkers may want to rethink their stance. The debate isn’t philosophy or science, the debate is actually…
We get letters: I apologize for being so decisive
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Pollsters are Poor Prophets.
The important thing to remember is that polls are a picture from yesterday. They cannot forecast the future. And we live in volatile, rapidly changing times. We are struggling to…
Election Funnies and Follies #2
First up, the Nova Scotia election results: One thing I know for sure – the Male Grievance Brigade in the media are busy writing their columns for tomorrow Saying the…
Three Alberta universities announce COVID-19 restrictions declared impossible just three weeks ago
The universities of Alberta, Calgary and Lethbridge announced a joint back-to-school vaccine strategy yesterday that will require everyone on campus who can’t prove they’ve been fully vaccinated to undergo rapid…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Sun-lounging cats.
Our disastrous war in Afghanistan
Outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, 2010. Photo from Flickr. In two hours during the morning of September 11, 2001, 2,981 people were murdered when 19 hijackers crashed four airliners into the…
The Attention You Don’t Want
During an election campaign it can be very difficult to get the medias attention, especially for smaller parties. It’s hard to get your “message of the day” covered, to get…
My latest: Biden failed
It’s easy to get into war. Chuck Hagel said that, and he’d know. Hagel is a much-decorated war hero, an ex-Senator, and the former Secretary of Defense in Barack Obama’s…
Privatizing public dollars
The high-priced help at BC Hydro and the provincial government decided benefits of low-costs should never be wasted on consumers. To ensure it was not, the utility signed decades-long deals…
COVID Zero, NDP Majority
Since it doesn’t seem to have received the attention it deserves, I’ll take the opportunity to highlight what may be the most important suggestion of Canada’s election campaign so far:…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Janet French reports on Alberta’s appalling move toward a see-no-COVID, speak-no-COVID policy as a substitute for basic precautions in schools. Gabriella Fourie…
An Escape From The Kennel
Hopefully, they will be returned to their enclosures post-haste: The Liberal campaign is confronted by some protestors at a campaign stop in Coburg. They are yelling about freedom and vaccines…
My latest: no one wants this election
It’s unnecessary. It’s unwanted. And it’s been imposed on us by a Prime Minister who is unfit. Because, make no mistake: Unfit he is. Untrustworthy and unethical, too. He swore…
Did You Hear the One About… ? Canada’s Recovery Plan, First Impression.
I spent much too long yesterday going through the O’Toole Conservatives’ campaign platform, a.k.a. Canada’s Recovery Plan. For starters I tackled the Tories’ environmental platform. It makes for dense reading,…
Meng and the SVJI: Parallel Cases?
The ongoing case against Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou has an odd parallel in Collingwood. Our own petty, revenge-obsessed council’s threats to sue people who caused no harm nor have ever been…
the federal NDP’s housing platform
With a federal election taking place in Canada on September 20, the NDP has released its platform, which includes important housing-related measures. I’ve written a ‘top 10’ overview of the…
A Worrying Trend
The federal election campaign and yesterday felt like the first “normal” campaign day, which is mostly because it was. It was a day of campaign announcements, whistle stops and events,…