Breaking Faith with Canadians.
Before people started accepting news in free form as whatever was trending on social media, we were encouraging business and government to work together. We called it by various names…
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Covid Journal, November 28, 2020
‘Left-wing media’ meme is BS; Disaster Donald on his way out …
Freedom stops when work starts
Share this article: Dmitri Sotnikov Dmitri Sotnikov is a software developer with an interest in progressive politics. Dmitri believes that we must strive for a world with justice and equality…
Public health over profit: Covid-19 is surging under Jason Kenny
Share this article: “The cure cannot be worse than the itself,” said Trump back in March. It seems that Alberta premier Jason Kenny and Health Minister Tyler Shandro have taken…
Plague Update: Moe Lied, People Died
In short, they lied. Premier Moe is a damned dirty liar, and people are dying as a result.#COVID19SK https://t.co/X6jyZPjgKP — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) November 26, 2020 Yet his death…
Plague Update: Moe More Restaurant Dining
While skirting the household gathering limit, the Sask Premier was exposed to COVID-19 in PA. The irony of Scott Moe being exposed to covid at a restaurant days after encouraging…
Talking the Political Response to COVID-19 with Graham Richardson
Yesterday I joined Graham Richardson, who was sitting in for Kristy Cameron, on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Kate Harrison & Lindsay Maskell. We talked about the latest news on…
Talking Stricter COVID-19 Measures & Canada-US Relations post-Trump 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 Dennis Matthews. We discussed the latest on the COVID-19 pandemic, the…
Covid Journal, November 23, 2020
The High Cost of Lockdowns As millions of small businesses hang by a thread, the focus will be on the demise of big boxes as a result of lockdowns. Will…
What I learned from Trump
Up until four years ago I assumed that democracy was not only strong, it was invincible. At least in the Anglosphere. Why wouldn’t I? During my lifetime, democracy had survived…
A New Social Contract: The Parable of the Happy Kingdom
A brief preamble: The old social contract, the last social contract, has clearly broken down. That was the New Deal, which was a compromise between the business elite and the…
Government and Corporations Care About Your Privacy: That’s Why They Support the Bi-Partisan Global Fascist Coup
Western governments and their criminal friends in big tech pretend to care about citizen’s privacy, while secretly destroying it. But privacy is a misnomer and a red herring. The central…
Freedom of Speech vs Censorship
With the disgraceful behaviour of the Intercept, first censoring the venerable Glenn Greenwald, then attacking and slandering him after he resigned, over his refusal to abide by censorship at the…
Time isn’t on Time’s side
Back in the day, whatever that means, everybody subscribed to magazines. At various times when I was a kid we subscribed to Reader’s Digest, Life, Look, Newsweek, Chatelaine, Macleans, Sports…
Pandemic Profiteers.
As a young man, I was trained by two different grocery chains in management of large grocery stores. Later in life, traveling around the world, I would often visit grocery…
Are We Serious About Human Health? The Rhetoric and Gestures Say Yes, But The Evidence Says No
The government pretends to care deeply and profoundly about human health, using police state measures in a time of crisis, justified by their supposed great concern for health. Yet, the…
Want to defund the police? One gigantic problem: they don’t care
Share this article: At this point, we are all aware of what it means to defund the police. It simply means moving money and tasks away from police departments and…
Working less—one answer to COVID economics
As the pandemic continues to batter the economy and unemployment increases, it’s time to take yet another look at an approach to work that will maintain high employment while improving…
Green Homes: Best Practices
After more than 50 years of experimentation and development in the field, done by literally millions of people, and after 35 years of my own research, I would offer this…
Compromise or Collapse
The elite always do the same thing. They have repeated the same failed patterns for millennia. They never learn. They could be wealthy and powerful, virtually in perpetuity, or at…