Plague Update: SK Party’s Predictable Conservative Hypocrisy
One of my least favourite Sask Party cabinet ministers (for him closing STC Bus service) is in hot water after going to California during the pandemic. He’s legally required to…
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Social media abuzz with reports of UCP staffers, MLA vacationing abroad despite pandemic travel warnings
Social media is abuzz with reports of United Conservative Party staffers and at least one UCP MLA enjoying vacations abroad notwithstanding the federal government’s pleas for Canadians to cancel all…
Plague Update: Good News, Bad News
First, the bad news. The Conservatives in power in Alberta and Ontario are just the worst hypocrites. They told people not to travel, which was the correct advice, but then…
A Warning From The WHO
I doubt there is anyone amongst us who doesn’t wish this pandemic were over. The cost in lives, health and jobs has been unprecedented in modern times. Yet to think…
More than 1,000 Albertans have died from COVID-19, half of them in the past month
Albertans learned yesterday the grim toll from COVID-19 in the province has now passed 1,000 deaths. This is a terrible tragedy but it need surprise no one, given humanity’s extensive…
Plague Update: Ford’s Failings Match Every Conservative Province
Like many Conservative run provinces, Ontario is facing a slow motion disaster in the second wave. The stalwart “Resistance” Premiers, opposed to a carbon tax, also show their disdain for…
Calgary judge makes short work of bid for injunction to block COVID-19 restrictions
A Calgary superior court judge yesterday made short work of the bid by the so-called Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms to get an emergency injunction blocking public health restrictions on…
An evidence-based Alert system #nlpoli
Communication remains the single biggest chronic failure of the province’s COVID-19 response. As regular readers of these e-scribbles know, that means it is really a management problem. Government officials have…
An evidence-based Alert system #nlpoli
Communication remains the single biggest chronic failure of the province’s COVID-19 response. As regular readers of these e-scribbles know, that means it is really a management problem. Government officials have…
An evidence-based Alert system #nlpoli
Communication remains the single biggest chronic failure of the province’s COVID-19 response. As regular readers of these e-scribbles know, that means it is really a management problem. Government officials have…
Capturing A Certain Ethos
Be sure to click on the image so as to enlarge it: Unfortunately, the mentality depicted above is not confined to the United States. Recommend this Post
The Pensioner and the Pandemic
This is the post I was going to write before I was rudely interrupted and told to lock myself in my room. I may indeed be the least affected person…
When is a rule not a rule? When a maskless minister from Alberta’s United Conservative Party is breaking it
COVID-19 has now killed at least 790 Albertans. It fell to Chief Medical Officer of Health Deena Hinshaw to break the dark news yesterday that 30 COVID-19 deaths had been…
Tire-screeching reversal on COVID-19 vaccine timing shows Canada’s Conservatives can turn on a dime!
You can hardly blame The United Conservative Party’s leaders from trying to get out there as quickly as possible to take credit for the arrival of the first planeloads of…
Plague Update: Good News, and Bad News
The first vaccine has been delivered to the first Saskatchewanian healthcare worker. Bad news: The first case of wild mink COVID-19 has been confirmed in the world: First case of…
10 months in the life of Jason Kenney: from bitter foe of illegal protests to fierce defender of protesters’ rights, or something
What a difference a year makes! Not even a year: Ten months in the life of Jason Kenney. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Ten months ago, blockades…
Plague Update: Racists Rally Against Science
Could you imagine being Dr. Shahab right now?After standing alongside @PremierScottMoe through this health crisis and then following a racist attack, Moe refuses to condemn the attack by pussyfooting around…