Making The Cash Registers Ring
Last week, that blonde flamethrower from Georgia — Marjorie Taylor Greene — declared that she was a member of “The America First Caucus,” which she said was dedicated to “Anglo-Saxon…
2021
Covid Journal, April 18, 2021
The last few days have not been good for Ontario, especially Doug Ford. On the federal level, the Liberals have been labeled the ‘most anti-internet government in Canadian history’.
A Mea Culpa on Small Nukes.
The other day I really wanted to write something positive. I feel guilty about writing so many negative comments about politicians today. It was an old friend who suggested to…
Corporate fines paid from petty cash
If we expect wealthy companies to alter their business practices on safety, the environment, and other matters of corporate responsibility and integrity, punishment should fit the crime, but more importantly,…
The Voices Not Listened To
For many of us in Ontario, yesterday was a very intense day. Or at least the evening after 4 pm EST was. The counterproductive moves announced by the Ford Government…
O’Toole re-sets on climate change
It’s taken a while but finally Erin O’Toole has a climate change policy to present to the voters. The most intriguing bit is his acceptance of the need for a…
Ontario’s priority should be public health—not profits and police
The Ford government’s public health priorities have failed almost unceasingly to deliver the results we need to put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo from Twitter. As the third…
Doug Ford is killing Ontarians and violating their civil rights
Image by Canadian Dimension. On Friday afternoon, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced new restrictions in Ontario’s fight against COVID-19. But let’s not mince words: the premier’s approach will do nothing…
Saturday Photo: Am I Blue? No, How Could You Be with This Kind of Display
Garden escapes in the woods last Sunday! Just gorgeous. And there there’s this couple:
How to Understand the News.
Much (most) of our news is based on lies. So, feeling miserable about the world in general, I thought I’d devote a blog to samples of people who lie about…
Time of Use Billing is an Assault
By returning to the money-grabbing time-of-use (TOU) billing, Ontario’s Hydro One continues its unrelenting assault on the province’s seniors, stay-at-home parents, the unemployed, night shift workers, those under lockdown, and…
What Does it Mean to Enrol in a Course?
I guess the answer seems pretty obvious: you provide your personal contact information, maybe pay some money, maybe show you’ve satisfied a prerequisite, such as admission to an institution, and…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Justin Ling writes that the third wave of COVID currently swamping conservative-run provinces can be traced back directly to our leaders’ refusal to…
The Madness of Nietzsche
Nietzsche was either terribly misinterpreted, as my dearly departed scholar brother was adamant to say, or he was simply mad his entire life, and his philosophy was a philosophy of…
Media literacy 101, Redux
Omg he is citing the National Post! That’s a right wing newspaper! They say, pouring over their daily ingestion of the now truly extreme right wing, corporate oligarchy-driven mainstream “liberal”…
Unmasked, Undaunted, And Unhinged
Such is the state of things in Ontario. Huf Gym, in Mississauga, refuses to close despite the law. Indeed, as the following video report makes clear, the law seems to…
“Martial law.” Seriously? A thread.
Politicians hollering “martial law” about Ontario are being dishonest or ignorant. Or both. #onpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 17, 2021
Bruce Arthur demands crucifixion, and then, when he gets it, complains about the view
Correlation between @TorontoStar columnists who demanded Ontario emulate Australia’s hard lockdown rules and @TorontoStar columnists who are now outraged Ontario actually emulated Australia’s hard lockdown rules: one. #onpoli #cdnpoli —…
More Deadly
Bruce Arthur was with medical professionals at the Brampton Civic Hospital when Doug Ford announced his government’s latest plans to fight COVID: The doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists watched…
The Ford Agenda.
It is hard to tell if the pandemic is helping hide premier Doug Ford’s agenda for Ontario or just slowing it down. His plans seem to be everything except the…