No predictions today, but the stakes are high, maybe existential, so just go vote!
One of the dirty little secrets of Canadian politics at the end of the beginning of the 21st Century is that a lot of political professionals have come to recognize…
May 2023
Election Day
We’ve said everything there is to say. We’ve done everything we can do. Vote wisely Alberta.
Sunday Evening Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – David Cox talks to Akiko Iwasaki about the reality that we’re still far from being done with major harm from COVID-19. Keith…
Kelowna
Latest. Kelowna trees. pic.twitter.com/lqLE1XQlOV — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 28, 2023
Liberalism and the spectre of inverted totalitarianism
Pablo Picasso, “Massacre in Korea,” 1951. The painting was considered to be a condemnation of US intervention in the Korean War. Image courtesy Musée Picasso/Wikimedia Commons. The conflict now raging…
Installing NextCloud Hub with OnlyOffice on Ubuntu 18.04
These are the things I encountered following Dave Lane’s instructions here: https://tech.oeru.org/installing-nextcloud-hub-onlyoffice-ubuntu-1804 and finally restart the network stack and ufw on your serversudo service networking restart Failed. Used systemd-networkd restarthttps://superuser.com/questions/1423959/ubuntu-server-fail-to-restart-networking-service-unit-network-service-not-foun…
Professional Use of AI
Not so long ago, I wrote a piece on some of the ethical question marks that Large Language Model (LLM) Artificial Intelligence (AI) raises. In the last week not one,…
Some Pretty Pictures and a Poem
On my twitter feed, I make sure to temper my covid and climate change posts by re-tweeting incredible physical feats (mainly cycling and gymnastics), beautiful art, hilarious posts, lots of…
To The Right
Judy Rebick writes that things are shifting to the right in Canada. In Alberta, it’s beginning to look like Danielle Smith will squeak through with a victory this week: No…
Attacking the Wrong One.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has tackled the wrong opponent. He is trying to besmirch the bona fides of David Johnston. He has picked the wrong target. He is attacking the…
Alberta’s economy has lagged the rest of Canada under the UCP, well-known economist’s study concludes
No matter how badly they mismanage it, Alberta Conservatives can usually expect to get a pass on the economy. Tomorrow is election day in Alberta (Photo: Michael J/Creative Commons). There’s…
Hello, Kelooooowna
There I was on the waterfront in Kelowna, and some supermodel photobombed me. Happens a lot. pic.twitter.com/kMtrU0IFpk — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 27, 2023
Canadian aid for Cuba? 35 national and regional organizations support it
Cuban propaganda poster proclaiming a quote from Fidel Castro: “Luchar contra lo imposible y vencer” (“To fight against the impossible and win”). Photo from Wikimedia Commons. It is not often…
Review 4: King Kong vs Godzilla – 1962
What was to prove the most successful of Toho’s Godzilla films is, to me, at times one of the hardest to watch in the edited, Americanized edition, even though it…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Gil McGowan highlights how the UCP’s intolerable plans for Alberta include another four years of systematic wage suppression in order to further enrich…
DeSantis’ Path to Power
At Joe Biden’s inauguration, a young black poet, Amanda Gorman, read her poem “The Hill We Climb.” Recently, the poem was removed from a school library on the objection of…
Why Ranked Ballots Make Sense
I believe that WRDSB has a committee formed to determine the process to appoint two new trustees. I’ve been actively avoiding following the news on all this, but I do…