Winners & Losers: CBC New Brunswick Election Leaders Forum
The New Brunswick provincial election comes to an end in less than a week on Monday, September 14th Given the nature of this first COVID campaign in Canada, every chance…
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We still need the U.S.
Reading The Guardian last week, two articles captured my attention. Set side by side were “A ‘tyrant-clown’ has destroyed my love affair with America” by Robert McCrum and “‘Chairman Xi’…
Covid Journal, Sept 9, 2020
‘Back to School’ Welcome back everyone. After nearly 6 months ‘away’, unions, teachers, administrators, students, parents and everyone else tied to the educational system are all adding their own ingredients…
Knowledge Is Power. Panic Is Death. Reconnection Is Resilience
Knowledge is power. Bacon was right about one thing, at least. People are afraid of wolves, coyotes, snakes, bugs, bears…the flu. Our ability to assess danger rationally in our modern,…
Hit the Trail, Amigos! Gearing Up for the Great Outdoors
A Trestles Elite Eco 20 Sleeping Bag….. Perfect. (And again, I get no commission from anyone – so far; though maybe I should reconsider that. I just promote things that…
CHINA VS THE WEST? No, it is freedom vs empire – of any kind
“Delegates from American companies, including ADM, Cisco, ExxonMobil, FedEx, Warner Bros, Xcoal, General Motors, and PepsiCo, were told by Ning Jizhe, a vice-chairman of the commission, that China always welcomed…
Core Wisdom: Compassion & Ferocity
I choose compassion because I want others to be happy and not to suffer. That is the intelligent way to live. Not that I am infallible, but I strive. Kindness…
Telus v. Shaw: Pick your poison
Here’s a test: get together with friends and/or family (at a safe distance, of course), and ask them if they use Shaw or Telus for their TV and internet needs.…
Sticker Shocked
The past six months have been stunning to think about in retrospect. That fact that we’re coming up on six months of fighting COVID-19 is in of itself stunning to…
5 Key Points For Understanding The World In 2020 & Beyond
A number of points must be investigated, examined in depth, realized and understood, if we are to understand the events unfolding in 2020 and beyond. A crisis of legitimacy (popular…
And justice for none
Listen to the words of an honest journalist – a rare creature in these Orwellian times: “When I first met Julian Assange more than ten years ago, I asked him…
Talking WE Document Revelations & Calls for the Resignation of Dr. Williams with Kristy Cameron
This morning I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison & Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about NDP MP Charlie Angus’ press…
Capitalism will eat democracy — unless we speak up
Here is an open letter to the thinkers, scholars and activists of the world – a letter, unrevised, that I just sent to several friends, colleagues, and mentors. Hi folks,…
Is Alberta “slipping into authoritarianism”?
Guy Smith, president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE), sees a disturbing trend in the province. He suggests that, under the rule of Jason Kenney and his UCP,…
The Root of the Problem
Long-winded and verbose, typically does not equate to insightful, or even, necessarily, sane. Often the briefest statements are the most important: such as the Magna Carta, The Declaration of Independence,…
The Dystopian Future Of “Education” Is Here
Kunstler is very worth reading, very perceptive, very thoughtful, and his general depiction of the decline and slow collapse of petrochemical industrial modern “civilization” is in broad strokes most likely…
Top Priority Reading: A Letter To All
Here is the letter I wrote for my son today, on his fifteenth birthday, advising him on important reading, based on my own 50,000+ hours of research, studies, reflection and…
A Paywall for All?
It looks as though the news media people who are trying to collect from Facebook, Google, et al for using their output are going to regret it. Having government involved…
Geopolitics 2020 – Part Two
Extremely important to understand: China is a police state, yet, it is now more free than the Western world, having removed many of the authoritarian restrictions which were imposed globally…
Of Losers and Suckers
Labour Day weekend is on our doorstep as the last marker of the summer arrives. Once this weekend is done, summer is effectively over, and we then move into the…