Covid Journal, January 15, 2021
Ford brings in a lockdown, treating us like prisoners, not providing enough direction for us to know if we’ll be punished for simply … living. Selfish snowbirds: what to do?…
Ford brings in a lockdown, treating us like prisoners, not providing enough direction for us to know if we’ll be punished for simply … living. Selfish snowbirds: what to do?…
The world is watching, but the world also needs to react to what’s happened in Washington, DC the last few days. Pence must move forward with the 25th Amendment and…
Donald Trump was, is and will always be seen as a product of a country without leadership.
White privilege? Trickle-down fail? PCR fail? Cure for Cancer? All in today’s journal. Happy holidays!
Arbitrary rules and inconsistent application of lockdown requirements will just fuel people’s thoughts about favouratism and anxiety related to the ‘do as we say, not as we do’ leadership of…
December 21, Winter Solstice The darkest day of the longest year has finally passed. December 21 is the traditional ‘Winter Solstice’ night, where in the northern hemisphere, the number of…
Tracking the Covid bonanza; Alberta is in trouble.
Wow. All Corners of Canada’s Con World A Complete Trainwreck Tell me what you make of this headline … We have all of the components of the right-wing apparatus falling…
A couple of stories that explore how lockdown efforts are benefitting some – but not most – people on this planet.
Alberta. Sheesh. What a mess. And Conservatives continue to pretend they know what they’re doing …
Is your holiday shopping helping to expand economic disparity or support local businesses? it’s a tough call for all, but we need to try to do our thing to keep…
The son of polio vaccine inventor Jonah Salk talks about patents, the public interest and pharma; Let’s give younger people some hope rather than blame them for our mess.
‘Left-wing media’ meme is BS; Disaster Donald on his way out …
If the application of lockdowns are unfair and inconsistent, people will ignore them. Purdue has admitted to being North America’s biggest drug dealer but fines amount to a slap on…
The High Cost of Lockdowns As millions of small businesses hang by a thread, the focus will be on the demise of big boxes as a result of lockdowns. Will…
Inconsistency seems more contagious than Covid itself. Is it fair that big boxes don’t have to implement contact tracing or extra measures while small businesses get penalized if they don’t?…
Defile! Defile! Trump and his team are probably resorting to a different kind of ‘defile’ (as in shredding documents before Biden’s team takes over), but they’re also rushing to assault…
A few updates, mainly asking why so many of our mainstream stories have to resort to the bottom of the barrel when it comes to reporting and why we are…
A concession speech worth reading; a look at the urban/rural divide with voting; if education is a basic human right, are Ford and Lecce in breach of that commitment?
What’s your prediction for #USElection2020? Here’s mine …