Covid Journal, June 8, 2021
During what I feel are ‘post-Covid’ times, a lot of people are doing a very poor job of being good humans: racists in London, ON; loggers of our legacy in…
Excited Delirium
Covid Journal, June 2, 2021
The news has been a little overwhelming for me in the last few days. Residential schools, MMIWG issues and the 100th anniversary of the bombing of Black Wall Street in…
Covid Journal, May 29, 2021
Let’s change ‘the rules’. Canada’s internet regulation mess. Why is Canada the breeding ground for so many right-wing groups?
Covid Journal, May 24, 2021
What’s your take on populist government responses to Covid compared to those that are, shall we say, progressive and focused on the many? I think Covid is a brutal but…
Covid Journal, May 22, 2021
Opioids – The Shadow Pandemic; Opposing Bill C-10.
Covid Journal, May 5, 2021
The debate is over. Let’s get moving forward – get vaccinated.
Covid Journal, April 30, 2021
Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s Bill C-10 is a disaster waiting to happen. Petition to make it stop.
Covid Journal, April 27, 2021
Doug Ford: crying to the public ain’t gonna bring about paid sick leave. Ignoring bills submitted to the Ontario partliament TWENTY ONE times won’t help either.
Covid Journal, April 18, 2021
The last few days have not been good for Ontario, especially Doug Ford. On the federal level, the Liberals have been labeled the ‘most anti-internet government in Canadian history’.
Covid Journal, April 13, 2021
More Conservative ‘Trojan Horse’ private members’ bills designed to steal the rights of women. Sigh. Nothing changes …
Covid Journal, April 7, 2021
Should we change the term ‘lockdown’ to something a little more ‘flowery’ so that we don’t feel like prisoners in our own supposedly free world?
Covid Journal, April 1, 2021
Stories I’ve seen so far paint George Floyd as someone who needed to be taken down. Would the language used to describe a white person in a similar situation be…
Covid Journal, March 24, 2021
What is ‘On Guard For Thee’ and what does it mean if further stay-in-place requirements are demanded of the public?
Covid Journal, March 15, 2021
A number of updates, but the wackiest news seems to be that the Alberta oil ‘war room’ is going up against a cartoon. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Covid Journal, March 10, 2021
What’s The Plan? Vaccines are growing from a trickle to a flood (soon-ish), giving our various leaders across the country to implement a more rigorous plan for distribution and mass…
Covid Journal, March 8, 2021
A checklist of quality middle / left news sources. Can we cancel ‘cancel culture’? Also: an inventory of options related to Covid vaccines. We need to consider ALL of the…
Covid Journal, March 2, 2021
‘Vaccine panic’ with Canada’s right-wing media and pundits continues. Negotations get more intense between regulators and policy creators concerning a potential ‘internet link tax’ in Canada that would support a…
Covid Journal, Feb 17, 2021
Today’s topics: a class action lawsuit against chocolate producers using child slavery and discussion about a ‘new’ internet.
Covid Journal, February 14, 2021
Why should the Liberals push through an ‘internet tax’ when it’s already being shown to be a failure in other countries? In other news, the ‘vaccine panic’ being whipped up…
Covid Journal, February 7, 2021
Art will be one of the greatest casualties of the global response to Covid. So many great works will disappear from public halls and be shuffled into the basements of…