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…
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…
Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party, friends of the union man and woman, not to mention the environment! Who would have seen that coming? Premier Jason Kenney (Photo: Chris…
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…
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…
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…
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…
According to Education Minister Adriana LaGrange, it turns out “emerging evidence has made it clear that masks can play an important role limiting the spread of COVID-19 in our schools.”…
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…
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…
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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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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 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:…
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’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…
