Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Katie Raso describes the coronavirus pandemic as the neoliberal Chernobyl, having exposed how we’re not only unable to respond to a disaster…
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… and Kenney Called The NDP "Ideological"
So, today the Kenney government took the wraps off its proposed K-6 school curriculum: https://curriculum.learnalberta.ca/curriculum/en *I can’t guarantee how long this link will be viable, so screenshots will be used…
Mending The World As Jewish Anarchists: Book Launch & Discussion April 29
Event by Independent Jewish Voices Canada Online: ijvcanada.zoom.us Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 7 PM EDT Price: Free Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/475037173664163 Join Independent Jewish Voices Canada for the launch of…
My latest: little PMO shop of horrors
ACT ONE KATIE TELFORD, CHIEF OF STAFF: Prime Minister, we have good news and bad news. TRUDEAU : What’s the bad news? TELFORD: Our vaccine deal with the Chinese fell…
Lana Del Rey’s American dream
American singer-songwriter and record producer Lana Del Rey performs at the Planeta Terra Festival in São Paulo, Brazil, November 9, 2013. Photo by Beatriz Alvani/Wikimedia Commons. Two of America’s best…
Faster, Stronger, Better?
Glen Pearson throws out a few numbers for our consideration: It took Apple 42 years to reach $1 trillion in value and 20 weeks to get from that point to…
UN: After the Pandemic Sustainable Cities will Succeed
Like the rest of the world, the United Nations is looking forward to the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and they’re projecting what our future may hold. The UN sees…
Talking the Latest on the COVID Vaccination Rollout with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Jason Lietaer for the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the latest on the rollout of…
Women rule
The best music being created in pop/rock right now is being created by women. It isn’t even a debate. https://t.co/cyEI6Xnsao https://t.co/V6lY0Vf7I4 https://t.co/aUmu1j90NO https://t.co/bjtoDjMtzJ https://t.co/O5xhpA3ank https://t.co/FWW9Q7YR9C — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March…
Pick your battles.
If you want to win, in war or in politics, you pick the battles you can win. Losers fight any battle that comes along. It is the problem facing the…
Few Albertans are likely to be pleased by the UCP’s ‘jaw-droppingly misguided’ K-6 social studies curriculum
Wherever one may fall on the question of traditional arithmetic versus the kinds of new math that frustrate many parents or the value of phonetics over other ways to learn…
Expert haiku
Waxing facials areLike pedicures manicuresPay for them yourself – Warren Haikus, Inc. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 30, 2021
A World Gone Mad? The Rise of Antiscience Across the Right Wing.
What does it mean when your political philosophy depends on self-serving opinion at odds with fact? An article in Scientific American warns of the rise of “antiscience” birthed among America’s…
Why the NDP needs a new defence critic
CAF members along with American and Polish forces participate in medical evacuation training during Operation REASSURANCE in Adazi, Latvia. Photo by Corporal Zebulon Salmaniw/Canadian Armed Forces/Twitter. What should progressive Canadians…
Look at the bright side
After (a) posting this story which (b) says the Trudeau regime screwed up yet again on vaccines and after (c) saying I’ve already gotten the now-apparently-dangerous AZ vaccine, (d) readers…
"Peace with Honour" or "The Will Is Gone."
What is America? What will America be in 10 or 20 years? The United States is a country undergoing rapid change and, to some extent, dragging the West along with…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Mariana Mazzucato responds to Boris Johnson by recognizing that capitalism has no viable answers for collective action problems such as the ones posed…
I have the best readers
@kinsellawarren We all know this needed to happen…. pic.twitter.com/1FDLy0HH65 — Intergalactic Potato (@arcticrusty) March 29, 2021
Talking the State of COVID Vaccinations on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Lisa Kirbie. We discussed the state of COVID-19 Vaccinations across Canada,…