Alberta’s pandemic strategy continues to move deeply into full-blown implementation of the Great Barrington Declaration – the discredited notion the best way to respond to COVID-19 is to infect almost…
Or war crime? Our report from last night on the awful ISIS attack outside Kabul airport as families still search Kabul's morgues for their loved ones.. Many we spoke to,…
It’s 11 p.m. I have just finished four pages of the blog. It took me a good four hours. Then something happened. Those pages just disappeared. And,damn, nothing will make…
Originally published by https://www.sixmountains.ca Written by Larry Pynn North Cowichan and First Nations release long-awaited MOU on forest reserve Meetings of new Working Group won’t be public After more…
Whether you want to restore them or tear them down, you would probably like council to do SOMETHING about the decaying, century-old icon*on our waterfront. Anything, in fact. But as…
One day when I was 17, I happened to be home alone with my father. As a result of three strokes a year earlier, Dad was paralysed on his right…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian takes note of new research showing that the Delta variant of COVID-19 produces more severe outcomes (including increased hospitalization rates) even…
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – The Maple examines how the timing and format of the campaign chosen by Justin Trudeau could hardly have been designed for lower…
I am in the process of building a new site, but in the mean time, here is some recent writing: In the digital age, who has a right to be…
The latest episode of Bluesky Strategy Group’s “What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast” with my colleagues Tim Barber, Neil Brodie and Alyson Fair is now out. In this episode…
This is not this year’s batch of kids going to school: you can see that there’s not a mask in the lot. But school started in Montreal this week, and…
When large loopholes are allowed. As I wrote recently, almost all mandatory vaccine orders allow for both medical and religious exemptions. The only problem is that no religions forbid vaccinations,…
Justin Trudeau is in trouble. Chantal Hebert writes: Since the election call the Liberal lead has melted. At week’s end, a handful of polls put Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives in first…
By not providing enough public services, we are pushing those who can afford it into paying for for-profit care. This is yet another reason why we need a new national…
It is a strange thing to say but we really do miss Ontario premier Doug Ford. That shmuck has deserted us when we need him most. We need a break…
Well wasn’t this a day? Canada was rocked by the news that the Trudeau campaign has to cancel one of its Ontario rallies because the anti-vaxxer mob was putting Trudeau…
Justin Trudeau skipped another campaign appearance today over security concerns, this time in Bolton, Ontario. Dozens of angry protesters, who outnumbered Liberal supporters, gathered near the Bolton rally and began…
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Remember that the current vaccine passport system is an alternative to another lockdown situation. It is the opposite of a lockdown – lockdowns shut down society, the vaccine passport is…
Eve Owen – Mother
