Where’s The Exit?
Maggie Haberman reports in this morning’s New York Times that the five lawyers who were going to defend Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial have quit: Former President Donald…
2021
Understanding Basic Income.
There are three sides to this argument. The idea of a basic income for all Canadians is an idea championed by progressive politicos. And then there are the regressive politicos…
NDP Cabinet needs a reality check
Harry Swain, having served as chair of the federal-provincial review panel for Site C, is qualified to provide a project analysis. The BC NDP caucus should pay attention because Premier…
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer tops independent bookshops’ Alberta non-fiction bestseller list for week ended Jan. 24
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. Notable this week is…
Erin O’Toole’s Monstrous Vaccine War
As we all know, Erin O'Toole has disgraced himself over and over again trying to sabotage the battle against Covid-19, in his desperate attempt to destroy Justin Trudeau. And we…
Amsterdam Is Embracing A Radical New Economic Theory To Help Save The Environment. Could It Also Replace Capitalism?
WORLD ECONOMY AMSTERDAM IS EMBRACING A RADICAL NEW ECONOMIC THEORY TO HELP SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT. COULD IT ALSO REPLACE CAPITALISM? Amsterdam Is Embracing a Radical New Economic Theory to Help…
Remote Comments
I’ve had an idea in the back of my mind for a long time now, and as I get closer to a real-world gRSShopper other people can actually use I…
Covid Journal, January 30, 2021
In a dog-eat-dog world, what happens when companies are in breach of contract? Lawsuits. Lots of lawsuits. It’s time we stop playing the political blame game and consider the legal…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jerusalem Demsas discusses the strong popular support for affordable social housing even as governments continually fail to provide it. Daphne Bramham rightly asks…
Musings on Making Pasta No. 1
Long-time readers here may recall that I used to post about making my own pasta and bread quite frequently some years back. Last spring when I was diagnosed with…
There’s an Idea! Let’s Make Our Own Vaccines.
Dr. Alan Bernstein, head of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, says Canada needs something we haven’t had since Mulroney allowed Connaught Labs to be sold off. He wants Canada…
Conservative partisans, explained in one tweet
#CPC partisans’ excuses for losing:• the media are always mean to us • Trudeau will never lose • our leader will never win • Canadian voters are stupid • I’m…
Saturday Photo: Time to Get Outside…
Snow and cold temperatures must not keep us inside in this winter of our discontent. Here are footsteps in the snow, showing that a lot of people are fed up…
Big Money In Big Pharma
The pandemic has been a windfall for Big Pharma. The Trudeau government was planning to roll out a national pharmacare program. Central to that effort was The Patented Medicine Prices…
Eva Cray
When I was president at Carleton’s student association, we students didn’t agree on much. But we all agreed that the person we all adored was Eva Cray. RIP.
You can’t do one without the other.
It was an amusing op-ed the other morning in the Toronto Star by Bob Hepburn. Not only is Bob late to the lists but his suggestion regarding our governor general…
The Grand Chief and Grand Council of the Mi’kmaw
Grand Council Flag I have previously written about the hereditary chief traditions of certain West Coast First Nations. Little did I know at the time that the East Coast also…
With infectious new COVID-19 strains on the march, Alberta Premier caves to business and eases health restrictions
With more infectious new variants of the novel coronavirus now spreading in Western Canada, Premier Jason Kenney chose yesterday to advise Albertans that next Friday the province will ease the…
The New Renaissance Women and Men
For thousands of years, philosophers and others have been asking questions such as, What is a just society? What is virtue? What is a virtuous life? What is the good…