A Kenney Style Fireside Chat
On radio,
January 2022
Why The Anti-Vaxxers Will Now Have To Behave Themselves
When I saw the anti-vaxxers marching down the waterfront last summer, with their kooky Con signs and their crosses, at first I didn't take them seriously. All I wanted to…
Don’t just blame the anti-vaxxers, blame our political elites too
Justin Trudeau has chosen to place all of the blame on the unvaccinated for the current spike in cases and hospitalizations. The problem is, this is only a half-truth. It…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Katherine Wu warns that the worst of the Omicron COVID wave may happen even after case counts have peaked as continued spread…
KINSELLACAST 193: Mraz, Agar! Health and happiness! Dirty Nil! Ultra Q! Divorce Party!
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welcome to the world, asher
This beautiful little human is Asher, the newest member of our family. Asher joins Sophia in the next generation, the child of one of my nephews and niece(-in-law)s. My brother…
Do not put your trust in Rotten Tomatoes
So here we are in the deepest, darkest pit of winter. It’s the time of year when we ask ourselves the existential question – why in God’s name do I…
The Dilettante Departs.
Rod Phillips always struck me as a dilettante in business and in politics. I guess I thought of him as former Metro Toronto Chair and newspaper mogul, Paul Godfrey’s protégé.…
SK Update
(CP-Reuters) SK Update: Premier Moe Tests Positive for Covid--Doctors Predict Steep Decline in Vehicular Homicides for Province
SK Update
(CP-Reuters) SK Update: Premier Moe Tests Positive for Covid--Doctors Predict Steep Decline in Vehicular Homicides for Province
The China challenge
A view of Chongqing Central Business District from across Jialing River. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Amid the wreckage of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and its allies…
Research paper argues Canadian Taxpayers Federation pushed ‘anti-Indigenous political rhetoric and policy’ over 21 years
Locating the Canadian Taxpayers Federation clearly in the ecosystem of neoliberal advocacy, a recent paper in the Canadian Review of Sociology analyzes more than 400 documents published by the CTF…
SK Update
(CP-Reuters) SK Update: Premier Moe Tests Positive for Covid–Doctors Predict Steep Decline in Vehicular Homicides for Province
Intuitive Lessons from The Pandemic – A Fantasy
This post is not based on comprehensive research or particular expertise on my part. Rather it is more what we would have called “common sense” before Mike Harris completely destroyed…
Concordia University of Edmonton strike ends as faculty association members ratify new collective agreement
After 11 days on the picket line, members of the Concordia University of Edmonton Faculty Association have ratified a tentative agreement, ending the first strike by university faculty members in…
My Favourite Films of 2021? Still thinking about it… ;-)
I’ve always enjoyed compiling my list of Favourite Films each year. Before COVID, it was easy for me to check out many new films long before the end of the…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jim Stanford discusses how Canada’s COVID response has been slanted toward handouts to corporations and demands of workers – and increasingly so as…
What’s Wrong to Me
I have a political blog, Leftish, where you’re get an idea of my sense of right and wrong on a range of political issues. But I want to take a…
Saturday Photo: My Living Room Forest
The hibiscus are taller than I am, and nearly as old as my kids who have been on their own for decades. I bring them in every fall and cut…
Musings on the First Tercet of Dante’s Inferno
Back in December, before Godaddy broke my blog through technical incompetence, I had written a piece about the first stanza in Inferno, the first book of Dante’s trilogy, The Divine…