We Have Very Little Time.
A story on what I am about to write on this site has appeared in two web sites – The Nation and Common Dreams. And if you’re living in a…
2021
Green Party of Vancouver welcomes Memorandum of Understanding regarding Strathcona encampment
MEDIA RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7 April 2021 VANCOUVER, B.C. – The Green Party of Vancouver welcomes the announcement of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Park Board,…
Covid Journal, April 7, 2021
Should we change the term ‘lockdown’ to something a little more ‘flowery’ so that we don’t feel like prisoners in our own supposedly free world?
Far-right organizing in Alberta, on the streets and online
The confidence of far-right groups including the Soldiers of Odin and the Three Percent Militia is growing in stride with the increasingly emboldened anti-lockdown community. Photo by Nicholas Pescod/The News…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gary Mason writes that our leaders appear to have learned nothing as we face a third wave of COVID-19. Hasan Sheikh and Munir…
Why Canada should leave NATO
According to Canadian Dimension columnist Yves Engler, it is long past time Canada left the belligerent, militaristic, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Image courtesy NATO. By all accounts, NATO is a…
Talking Virtual Party Conventions with Rob Snow
Today I joined Rob Snow on CityNews Ottawa radio’s “The Rob Snow Show” along with Kate Harrison for the “Political Fix” panel. We talked the about the upcoming Liberal and…
Stay away from Canada
The Americans issue a warning about us. What a clown show is the Trudeau government. What a disgrace.
When Things Get Tough
Doug Ford is about to issue a stay-at-home order. Bruce Arthur writes: But now here we are. The province’s magical thinking, its hunger for short-term economic gains, its hostility to…
Want to be Successful? Spend Time with Your Friends
Are you worried you aren’t successful? Don’t be! The greatest success one can have is found in their social network, and size doesn’t matter. According to a 75-year long study…
Walking in Ottawa: The Glebe and Landsdowne Park
A spring afternoon walk in Ottawa down Bank Street and through Landsdowne Park, including a look into TD Place Stadium, and then up O’Connor Street.
A few fools foul racial relations.
It is outrageous to hear that there are increased incidences of racial hatred in our Canada. It is, admittedly, a time of serious stresses on our society, but I can…
On a wing and a prayer, Alberta reluctantly adopts stricter measures to counter frightening upswing in coronavirus variants
Faced with rising infection rates and a frightening upswing in coronavirus variants, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney reluctantly announced a return to somewhat stricter measures to control the spread of COVID-19…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Alert cats.
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Aaron Wherry discusses how the pandemic response across far too much of Canada has been (increasingly) marked by political calculation and triangulation…
Anti-carbon tax Government attacks hundreds of EV owners with a new tax
Saskatchewan Government will start charging EV owners $150 a year. The Minister who removed the EV incentive almost a decade ago took his next job as Canada’s top oil and…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Apr. 6, 2021
NOTE: If you currently send the updates to Chip Fitzgerald, please stop. After 51 years in prison, and directly resulting from medical neglect by the state, Chip recently died in…
FINAL Prison Covid Newsletter (vol 2, no 5), April 2021
The Prison Covid-19 Information Project provides COVID-19 news and resources for prisoners and their families and loved ones on the outside. Their April newsletter will be their final edition. It…
Covid-19 tales
Hostility to commonly accepted health practices does not come only from the foolish and the uniformed. The New Yorker published Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment, which shows highly educated policy makers can…
The Cancer Diaries, Part 27
I didn’t really expect the hormones to be so disruptive of my daily activities, but there are times when the “hot flashes” interrupt everything. They tire me out, sometimes making…