No, It’s Not an Evil Plot by the Deep State to Destroy Democracy
It’s a hoax. It’s a plot to plunge us into feudalism. It’s an act of bio-terror. Conspiracy theorists are having a field day spinning their nonsense thanks to the Covid-19…
It’s a hoax. It’s a plot to plunge us into feudalism. It’s an act of bio-terror. Conspiracy theorists are having a field day spinning their nonsense thanks to the Covid-19…
Well that didn’t last long, did it? Seems the ‘Bertans have lost their wild-eyed enthusiasm for liberating their province from the oppressive Canadian state. Now those damned bloodsuckers don’t seem…
Every cloud has a silver lining. Well, perhaps not every cloud. Covid-19, however, may have a silver lining. How could a contagion that leaves in its wake so much death…
They didn’t see it coming. On the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, a fleet of Japanese aircraft carriers launched a devastating surprise attack on the US Navy’s forward base…
Okay, this doesn’t come from social media. It’s not another wacko conspiracy theory. It’s out of Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health where researchers have found a link between…
It was April, 2019, when Nobel laureate economist, Joe Stiglitz, penned an op-ed in The New York Times calling for a rebirth of “progressive capitalism.” As I read the article…
The Great Recession of 2008-2009 seemed a disaster for everyone but it wasn’t. The lucky ones who knew how to game the catastrophe as it loomed reaped fortunes. And, in…
Could the Covid-19 virus finally weaken neoliberalism’s grip on our governments? Cornell law prof, Joseph Margulies, thinks it just might. We have faced crises before, and this too shall pass.…
CBC’s morning news summary included a report on Ontario kids returning to classes, virtual school, from their homes. That made me wonder how many of these young people are ready…
You can’t deny that this guy has a certain skillset. Even pickpockets are highly skilled. So too are grifters. The skillset that Donald Trump has garnered has taken him to…
If, by God, you mean Loki. I was just listening to NPR’s recap on pandemic news from around the globe. Japan, check. Italy, check. USA, check. Then they turned to…
Many Americans must die over the next year thanks for their president’s refusal to fight the Covid-19 virus for the critical two months, mid-January to mid-March, that allowed the virus…
It’s said a fish rots from the head first. So does America. Donald J. Trump has consigned hundreds of thousands of Americans to ugly and unnecessary deaths. Many more will…
Ina Garten’s tip for how to cope when you’re a pandemic shut-in.
The proof is right there on a screen capture posted to Warren Kinsella’s blog. “Province says 4,400 deaths have been prevented so far.” That’s what you call polishing a turd.…
The Globe has high praise for British Columbia’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Last Friday, British Columbia Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix gave a master…
While you’re waiting for that relief cheque from Ottawa, here’s a word to keep in mind, “Phoenix.” Phoenix is the system the Harper government introduced in 2011 to streamline paycheque…
For decades, humans have been inflicting one blow after another on our oceans. Global heating, ocean acidification, the discharge of chemicals, especially fertilizers, the dumping of massive plastics waste, rapacious…
Paul Krugman writes that his fellow countrymen don’t realize that America is on the “worst trajectory” of any developed nation wrestling with the coronavirus and that includes Italy. I’m not…