Plague Update: Worst Among Us
I practically couldn’t believe this, except I know BoJo is not a fine bloke. Boris Johnson considered being injected with COVID-19 on live TV: ex-adviser Man too stupid to realize…
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UCP MLAs on Legislature committee block Auditor General from reporting findings on how government handled COVID-19
Alberta’s Auditor-General has completed six performance audits of the United Conservative Party Government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as you may already have seen on social media, Doug Wylie…
Maverick Party obviously has no problem with its party secretary’s role in anti-vaccine-mandate truck convoy protest
The Medicine Hat woman who is the public face of the GoFundMe campaign that has now theoretically raised more than $5 million to support the “Freedom Convoy 2022” motorcade protest…
Bad News is Increasing, but More Slowly?
Teaching in Ontario right now is an absurdist’s wet dream. Schools can only close if there’s more than 30% absent, and many classes are half full, but nobody’s actually away…
Oh, The (In)humanity
I doubt there is anyone amongst us who is not thoroughly tired of Covid-19, the terrible virus that has forced us to live circumscribed lives for the past two years.…
Online fund-raising campaign for rolling truck blockades to protest vaccine mandates linked to right-wing separatist groups
An online fund-raising campaign organized by a person associated with the Maverick Party and other western separatist causes has raised more than $1.6 million in a week to bankroll highway…
National Post Letter
The old poli sci major in me could not allow John Ivison’s column to stand. Please see the letters section in today’s National Post for my response to the argument…
National Post Letter
The old poli sci major in me could not allow John Ivison’s column to stand. Please see the letters section in today’s National Post for my response to the argument…
Plague Update: No Moe Bragging Rights
Apparently the only reason no one in Saskatchewan died of COVID-19 the last couple weeks, was computer error, not reality. Of course Premier Moe was bragging only yesterday about his…
Not much edification in yesterday’s COVID-19 newser as Premier Kenney and officials ‘filibuster’ the hard questions
There was little informative or edifying about the mostly successful effort by Premier Jason Kenney and three of his senior health care enablers to run out the clock on reporters’…
Plague Update: Hide The Model
Leaked Saskatchewan disease modelling has hospitalizations headed for a record high next month. The SHA is asking the public to limit gatherings "in order to not overwhelm the health care…
A Kenney Style Fireside Chat
On radio,
Intuitive Lessons from The Pandemic – A Fantasy
This post is not based on comprehensive research or particular expertise on my part. Rather it is more what we would have called “common sense” before Mike Harris completely destroyed…
Plague Update: Moevid
Plague Premier Moe has COVID-19. He spent the last few days improperly using a substandard mask in public crowds, wiping his bare nose, and coughing. Maskless 3 days ago at…
Ontario Schools Opening Monday: A Collection of Responses
There is a simmering rage out there from Lecce & Moore’s reiteration of the “leaked” news of schools being in-person in five days. Of course it wasn’t truly leaked. This…
Here’s what happened when a courageous medical officer of heath was fired by Alberta Conservatives
The sudden firing of a medical officer of health was a shocking development in Alberta politics. On Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002, the medical officer of health for the Palliser Health…
The Reality of Denial and the Denial of Reality [Cured Quail Journal]
Antithesi / cognord Download PDF This text was written and published in Greek in September 2021. It was meant as a polemic intervention in a debate around the questions of…
Juris My Diction Crap
This Matrix clip has been at the front of my mind since I started looking into how to get a booster for my youngest, who’s 17, because I question if…
If only Alberta had an institution that could support students forced to learn at home – like it did until 2020
With this pandemic disrupting education in Alberta, if only we’d had an institution that could have supported students forced to learn at home, help their parents, and provide digital curriculum…
Private Edmonton university sees the first faculty strike in Alberta history – it likely won’t be the last
With labour disputes looming at three Alberta public universities in Alberta, it came as a surprise when the faculty association at a small private university in Edmonton became the first…