Fans and followers of the satire group, Mrs. Betty Bowers, will agree she’s just taken it to a whole new level. Betty body slams right wing evangelicals.
Donald Trump is a showman. So he donates his $400,000 annual salary and regularly reminds us of his generosity. What he doesn’t mention is how he has turned Washington and…
Last week I wrote a post slamming Donald Trump for his persistent refusal to wear a facemask in public. What made it egregious was that a president is supposed to…
At a time when medical experts are questioning whether there will ever be a vaccine to defeat the Covid-19 virus there’s good news on the anti-viral front. Anti-virals alleviate some…
The Tyee’s great petro-scribe, Andrew Nikiforuk, reveals how Alberta is exploiting the Covid-19 pandemic to suspend environmental monitoring of the Oil Patch. On the very day Premier Jason Kenney deemed…
Donald Trump has forced us to see the bilious side of American society – the shamelessly racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, fearful, angry, paranoid and downright stupid half of the public that…
Vancouver Island has not had one new case of Covid-19 in two full weeks. Since the virus arrived this island of 870,000 plus the residents of the Gulf Islands have…
We have a small window of opportunity to prepare for the next wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. We’ll need that time to replenish stocks of emergency equipment, testing sets and…
The president of the United States is supposed to set an example for the American people. Apparently Trump didn’t get that memo. He probably just didn’t read it. Trump sparked…
While the rest of Europe went into lockdown, Sweden decided to try something different. The Swedes chose not to lockdown their economy and, instead, try to develop ‘herd immunity’ by…
It’s terrible when a disease claims tens of thousands of innocent lives. It’s worse when a failure of leadership is responsible for most of those lost lives. On May 20,…
The government of British Columbia is putting provincial parks off-limits to visitors from outside the province. Campsites in B.C. provincial parks will be closed to people from outside the province…
What if Tarantino had directed The Sound of Music? Just sayin’
When I studied journalism I was taught that the hallmark of a hack reporter was ending a TV or radio report with “only time will tell.” Except that’s all you…
Just as governments across Europe and North America begin to emerge from Covid-19 lockdown. Just as long-shuttered stores and restaurants re-open. Just as an isolated, gloved and masked public begins…
Just in time for the Memorial Day virus transmission festival, a new wave of ammunition is being fed to Trump’s lockdown-hating base. Treasury secretary Mnuchin is gilding it as a…
George Monbiot blames Britain’s and America’s lousy pandemic results on two people – Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. Last year, the Global Health Security Index ranked this nation second in…
British Columbia’s Centre for Disease Control posts daily updates (Mon. to Fri.) of the number of Covid-19 cases across the province. The island isn’t heavily populated. 870,000 and change, about…
America’s racist whites, a.k.a.. Trump’s ‘base’, have a wonderful new code word, “Jogger.“ White supremacists have a new code for the n-word. It’s “jogger” — a direct reference to the…
