Shopping carts, masks, and morality
The shopping cart theory — or rather the S.C. hypothesis, since it really isn’t a theory in the proper scientific sense — is a test of our humanity, or so…
covid-19
Plague Update: Children Thrown Away Like Masks
The coronavirus is airborne. Most of our plans are based on it spreading by droplets and unclean hands. #KeepYourChildHome and they'll thank you in later years, even if 2020 and…
Mandatory Vaccination – With Extremely Dubious Safety Profile
* Here we go. * (My apologies for the strange formatting – WordPress decides on occasion to be buggy, and I am not techno-savvy enough to correct for its bugs.…
Plague Update: Booster Shot For The Economy
I am so not impressed by the Sask Party’s response to COVID-19. Slow Moe took days to shut down schools in March after a pandemic was declared, and now he’s…
Plague Update: Herman Cain Dies
Herman Cain, former U.S. presidential candidate, dies after contracting coronavirus Oh my god. He didn't even know what a vaccine is. pic.twitter.com/yEMR4gFgp0 — Jessica H (@yesssi) July 30, 2020
Some Days, I Truly Despair
Mendacity, the constant litany of lies that defines Donald Trump, is one thing, but when the Incompetent-In-Chief extols people who believe that illness is demon-caused and science is experimenting with…
Whatever happened to the UCP’s belligerent response to inconvenient European bankers and environmental litigators?
Once upon a time in Alberta if some foreign bank had dared to announce it wasn’t about to put money into any more Alberta oilsands projects there would have been…
Canada, keep your eye on Alberta — it’s not going to be pretty, but it should be instructive
You can just tell it’s likely to be a crazy week in Alberta politics. To understand just how crazy, you have to think about what the Kenney Government is noisily…
On a Radical Vision of Future Earth
I grabbed this book, by meteorologist Eric Holthaus, as soon as it went on sale, excited to check out the new vision of how we can all better live together.…
The World Judges Donald Trump’s Covid-19 ‘Strategy’
The New York Times offers a report on how people around the world evaluate the response of “the greatest nation on earth” to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Coles Notes version:…
Makes Sense To Me
I get the sense that Jonathan Pie is a tad vexed about government irresolution and people’s stupidity when it comes to the wearing of masks: Recommend this Post
Alberta NDP raises dramatically more in donations than the UCP during second quarter
Alberta’s United Conservative Party, it turns out, is almost as bad at governing as it is good at campaigning. That’s probably a better place to be from a political party’s…
Trudeau government should spend more on affordable housing and homelessness
On July 21, the Alternative Federal Budget Recovery Plan was released. The document aims to provide public policy direction to Canada’s federal government, in light of the current COVID-19 pandemic.…
Little sister is watching: Was Jason Kenney’s Southern Alberta RV tour fake news?
“The premier of Alberta rolled into Fort Macleod last week with a message of hope,” the Fort Macleod Gazette reported enthusiastically in its July 8 edition. What’s more, the Gazette…
Side deals with specialists emerge as latest UCP tactic in escalating war with Alberta Medical Association
The Kenney Government yesterday again escalated its continuing war with the Alberta Medical Association, indicating it would consider letting rival groups representing medical specialties quit the doctors’ collective bargaining association…
Thought For The Day
Amen. Recommend this Post
Alberta now has the highest per capita rate of COVID-19 infections in Canada: this is nothing to be proud of
Today will be a significant day in Alberta’s struggle with the coronavirus. We will learn, this afternoon, just how bad things are. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney (Photo: Chris Schwarz, Government…
Plague Update: Post-lockdown
Even though everything isn’t re-opened, the Saskatchewan Government very much wants people to think and act as if everything is back to normal. They’ll deny that if asked. There’s no…
Another Disease Is Spreading
The affliction, manifesting in a steadfast refusal to wear a mask, appears to arise from a combination of idiocy, sociopathic indifference to public health, and just profound ignorance. And the…
The Benighted Speak
There is a new report showing the continuing spread of Covid-19 in California. It seems that three counties, San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange, have now surpassed Los Angeles county in…