Chill Out
The doomsayers are out in full force. The economy will overheat, they say. Inflation will run wild. It will be the 1970s all over again! Paul Krugman’s advice is to…
2021
Where is the outrage?
Why is this not the top news story in this country? “Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia” /via @globeandmail https://t.co/AgfnawQYVS — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren)…
Council Fails Our Affordable Housing Residents
It’s ironic how Mayor Saunderson so loudly acclaimed the “Community-based strategic plan” last term (a document that was neither community-based nor a strategic plan) yet when a major issue arises…
The FIRE and the ashes: Rekindling Democratic Socialism
My new book is now available from BTL. The Fire and the Ashes – Between the Lines (btlbooks.com) In The Fire and the Ashes, long-time union economist and policy analyst…
The Gaslighters: Premier Kenney gins up an unlikely ‘strange alliance’ of anti-vaxxers and advocates of cautious reopening
It would be hard to find a purer example of gaslighting than Premier Jason Kenney’s straight-faced claim during yesterday’s COVID-19 news conference that the New Democratic Party Opposition and other…
It’s Time to Face Up to Reality
The Palestinian people are captive and, unless they leave their homeland, they will remain captive. Says who? Well, among others, Gwynne Dyer. He writes that the liberal progressive Israel embraced…
My latest Sun Media hit: the AZ hunt
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Tired Of Bad News?
Me too. I hope this puts a smile on your face, as it did mine. Recommend this Post
Fully vaccinated! Thanks, Costco folks.
Now, I want all of you to get fully vaccinated, too. The post Fully vaccinated! Thanks, Costco folks. first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
Farewell Ottawa, Hello Friendly Lane?
He was called many things, few of them flattering. He may have been the greatest fundraising machine on two legs the Tories ever had but, before long, he became a…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ian Welsh calls out the latest example of deceptive use of COVID-19 data to minimize the risk people continue to face, as…
Plastics are Toxic in Canada
The advertising around plastics highlights how recyclable it is, but in reality plastics are a pollutant that barely get recycled in a meaningful way (this is why the 3Rs are…
what i’m reading: there, there by tommy orange
After finishing and marveling over Kate Reed Petty’s True Story, I picked up There There by Tommy Orange and had a similar reaction. I don’t read a lot of popular…
Ford’s Bad Debt
Charles McVety is not getting his university. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Canada Christian College will not be granted coveted university status, as it hoped and prayed, despite the premier’s best…
Musings on the Complete Works
When the Arden Shakespeare: Complete Works arrived this week (an early birthday gift from my wife who might have wanted to hide it until the actual date… oops… I saw…
Kenney rolls the dice on COVID-19: We’re going to have the best summer you can imagine even if it kills us
Only pure political calculation can be driving Premier Jason Kenney’s COVID-19 reopening strategy now. Science? Prudence? Caution? Second vaccine doses? Forget about ’em. Health Minister Tyler Shandro (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr).…
Canmore rejects growth—a note of encouragement
Canmore is no Banff, but it is a charming and popular mountain town in its own right. Just outside of the famous park and just over an hour from Calgary,…
BC Government “deni-osaurs” — climate deniers
Canada’s federal government and its three western provinces are de facto climate change deniers. National Observer labelled this type denio-osaurs. All are committed to promoting increased production and export of…
Carl Gillis
Twenty-five years. How he be gone that long? Never forgotten. Remembering old friend from home, Carl Gillis. He passed away 25 years ago on May 27, 1996. @RivHighSchool grad was…
A Ray of Hope on the Covid Front
People who have either had Covid-19 or been inoculated against it may have much greater immunity than initially expected. Immunity to the coronavirus lasts at least a year, possibly a…