Covid Update
Lockdown Turns Out To WORSEN Public Health Outcomes, Causing Deaths From Cancer & Other Diseases To Rise Dramatically Collateral damage matters This is important to understand: deaths from cancer,…
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Donald Trump and the Unravelling of America
Donald Trump is starting to panic. He can see the writing on the wall, and he now realizes that he is heading for defeat in November. So he is now…
"at your library" in the north island eagle: columns published since re-opening, parts 2 and 3
Ancestry Library: Your Library Can Help You Discover Your Roots As the lockdown began, I posted some “At Your Library” columns that were suddenly irrelevant, among them a column about…
"at your library" in the north island eagle: columns published since re-opening, part 1: library takeout
Since the lockdown ended, I’ve been writing my column in the free local newspaper again. These columns seem very specific and not of wide interest, but since I started collecting…
Plague Update: Science In Use
Right Wing media started this year telling people that the new Coronavirus was the flu, and would cause no deaths in America. Fast forward to August and almost 150,000 Americans…
Don’t blame COVID-19 for new Site C dam cost overruns and delays, energy experts say
BC Hydro has classified the health of the most expensive public project in B.C. history as ‘red,’ blaming the pandemic for Site C’s deepening woes, but significant problems had emerged…
On The Covidiot, Anti-Masker Cohort
Those who read this blog with any regularity will likely know that when it comes to those who refuse to don masks as their contribution to our collective safety, I…
Site C Is Now Priceless!
August 3, 2020 | By Ken Boon On Friday July 31st, the BC Government finally revealed just how bad things are with the Site C dam. Of course…
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…
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:…