COVID Update: Life Expectancy, Long Covid, and World Immunization Week
We got our semi-annual booster today so Covid is on my mind tonight. It’s still hard to grasp the impact of the Covid pandemic worldwide until you realize how many…
My latest: NO MAGA
As in politics, as in comedy: it’s all about timing. Take MAGA, for instance (please). The Make America Great Again movement indisputably revolutionized American politics. Possibly world politics, too. Whether…
Rob’s truck. For sale.
Tweaked, a bit. Rob Laird's truck. Alberta. For sale. pic.twitter.com/mHBTdCsY2L — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 26, 2023
Off with his head!
Canadians, it seems, are not particularly enamoured of Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor. According to an Angus Reid survey, 60 percent of us do not want Charles III as head…
Plague Update: What Victims Look Forward To
If you’re not among the millions killed outright by a SARS-CoV2 infection, your arteries have been stiffened. From a video by Dr. Rae Duncan at Newcastle University: 18/ Dr Duncan…
A Brilliant Red Thread Book Launch, at Mother Foucault’s Bookshop in Portland OR, April 29
Near Portland? Come celebrate the launch of A Brilliant Red Thread: Revolutionary Writings from Don Hamerquist. The event will include discussions of experienced revolutionary organizers about the legacy of Hamerquist’s…
Legal Tweet of the Day: April 26, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: CRA won’t extend tax deadline as strike hits call centres, Canadians wait hours for help #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/3VanuU9 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
Today’s tonic: “Mark Saunders says he cares about ‘public safety.’ So why is he gunning for bike lanes?”
Today’s tonic by Edward Keenan: “Mark Saunders says he cares about ‘public safety.’ So why is he gunning for bike lanes?” “If you ask me what I think the rationale…
Not The Man For The Job
Pierre Poilievre has taken on journalism. History suggests that’s not a wise strategy. Robin Sears writes: The first conservative to destroy his party through a hatred of journalists was, of…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Providing for Guardianship of your Children in your Last Will
You can definitely name somebody in your last will to have custody and guardianship of your minor children in the event both of the parents pass away. Now, the appointment…
Still Lessons To Be Learned
The older I get, the more I realize how little I know. And to me, that is a good thing, because there is something both grounding and humbling in realizing…
Roxham Road and the Canadian unconscious
Former Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer tours the Roxham Road crossing in 2018. Photo from Flickr. Joe Biden paid an official visit to Canada in late March. While he was…
Journeying With Journalists.
It is very rare that I read other blogs. That is not being snooty, it is practical. I would just want to correct some of the writers and commiserate with…
In another unsurprising Danielle Smith flip-flop, Calgary to get $330 million in provincial cash for new Flames arena
Among other things, Danielle Smith’s announcement yesterday afternoon of big provincial bucks for a new downtown arena for the Calgary Flames represents yet another flip-flop for Alberta’s premier. Billionaire Calgary…
The secret is equity, not wealth
No society has ever created wealth like the United States. And no other society does today. Its dynamic capitalism with freer markets and smaller welfare states than other industrial nations…
what i’m reading: god’s bits of wood + labour book club update
My BCGEU Vancouver Island Labour Book Club is happening! 25 people expressed interest, 18 people registered, and about 5-7 people have been attending. A few other folks are following the…
Planting seeds of destruction
Instead of moving away from climate damaging energy sources, both Liberal and NDP governments of British Columbia have accelerated fossil fuel production through direct and indirect subsidies.
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Braced cats.
Zero years for procrastination
We have zero years before climate and ecological breakdown, because it’s already here. We have zero years left to procrastinate. The longer we wait to act, the worse the floods,…
Too Many Struggles Under One Roof: A review of Sophie Lewis’s Abolish the Family by Veronica L.
Sophie Lewis, Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, (New York: Verso Books, 2022). By Veronica L. When I was twenty-two, my then girlfriend and I put out…