Covid Journal, April 17, 2020
A few small updates today, quoting Mark Carney and others, focusing on speculation about the how the world will look economically, socially and politically. What’s your take on what might…
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On “Natural Religion”
Both deism and orthodoxy are cloudy. Experience, in terms of inner experience, outweighs both reason and so-called empirical evidence, since the former can conjecture or rationalize anything, and the latter…
Talking CERB Changes & The Role of Medical Experts on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, for a rare Thursday chat along with Jamie Ellerton. We discussed Canada’s continued…
Green New Dilemma
We are in very difficult times as governments and citizens do what we can to try to slow the spread of Covid-19. We’ve seen the effects for so many across…
Covid Journal, April 16, 2020
Canada’s food future lies in the hands of Community Shared Agriculture, not Costco or Loblaws.
Plague Update: Canada, Ontario, etc.
Ended up stumbling onto The Agenda, and this episode was great for anyone interested in the plague, or in city planning to respond to it. If you want to be…
Angkor Wat: Reflections On Our Modern World
~*~ Angkor Wat is the crown jewel of a 400 square kilometer set of temples and holy sites, set in the jungles of Cambodia. Built as a Hindu temple in…
Rules For Good Communication – Both In Writing, and Verbally, and In The Arts (Along with core points on the philosophy of language, knowledge, perception, consciousness, ontology and epistemology, and the nature of being and reality – and lessons on how not to be long-winded!)
Here are a few thoughts on writing and verbal communication, and all forms of communication. As an author, writer, reader, lover of books, and philosopher, I believe I have some…
Dangerous Misinformation in a Dangerous Time
In western society over the past few years we have seen the effects of disinformation on our society and our politics. We have seen them spread easily and have an…
Not Helping the Team: The Next Examples
A while back I wrote a piece here about politicians from around the World who have been not helping things with some of their words. In a time when we…
Covid Journal, April 14, 2020 (Trump Kills WHO During a Pandemic)
Is defunding the World Health Organization during a global pandemic the wisest thing to do? If you’re Donald Trump it is. Also, a viable alternative to Amazon for books and…
Essential Example
Over the past month our country and society as a whole has had many difficult situations and decisions thrust upon us by the Covid-19 global pandemic. We’ve had to deal…
Talking Essential Services & Covid-19 Wage Subsidies with Kristy Cameron
Today I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the latest developments on Covid-19, how…
With Allies Like These: The Good Stories
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a month that most of us have been living in these current circumstances created by Covid-19. It was about a month ago that…
Covid Journal, April 13, 2020
As many of us ‘wrap up’ Easter weekend, let’s be thoughtful about where our food is coming from and explore new ways to keep our food production, distribution and –…
Talking Canada’s Response to Covid-19 on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed Canada’s response to Covid-19, the newly-passed wage…
A Shining Example in Dark Days
Here at this blog I have written a fair bit about Canada’s attempts to get needed medical equipment and personal protective equipment over the past couple of weeks. That writing…
Masking the problem.
Some advise to progressive bloggers today: Do not get into an argument over wearing face masks in an epidemic. I got e-mails about that one! All, I did was mention…
Trudeau’s wage subsidy should have been the first to roll out, not the last
Share this: The new Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy is a brand new program created by the Liberal Party of Canada that would provide 75% of a workers wage to workers…
Covid Journal, April 12, 2020
People that own our food chain need to understand that the longer we’re cut adrift, the sooner we’ll learn to row.