Covid Journal, June 18, 2020
Ghosts, masks and fear. A veritable array of Halloween ideas. And wackiness that only Donald Trump seems to keep getting away with.
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What’s Going On?
YouTuber David Doel was saying all the cops had to do to win mass public support was to come out and do nothing. They couldn’t even do nothing. They threatened…
More Reflections on Yesterday’s Events
2020 man, it just keeps doing its thing. Yesterdays incident in the House of Commons between the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois is continuing apace, with the Bloc demanding a…
‘Today I don’t feel like doing anything.’
That Bruno Mars song about being lazy is silly but seems to fit the ennui I am feeling about writing something today. We are all tired of the pandemic and…
Marcus Aurelius & The Delusions Of Authoritarianism
Marcus Aurelius is an interesting character, and in some respects I imagine he is deserving of the adulation that has been heaped upon him. (He showed the best and the…
Church & State, Business & State: Restoring Freedom & Democracy, Before They Are Completely Devoured By Medical Martial Law, Or By Any Other Means
In the near future, we could very easily see the kind of totalitarian society with a theocratic face that Margaret Atwood warned us about in, A Hand Maid’s Tale…
Le Bloc Hypocrite
These have been hard days all over and the same is true here at home in Canada. While we’ve seen the protests against racism in the United States, we’ve seen…
An Election Unlike Any Other
2020 has been a crazy year so far between a global pandemic, mass protests in the United States and more to add to that. There have been so many things…
A Dark Night in Albuquerque
Over the past three weeks the world has been watching the protests against racism that have been unfolding in the United States. The sight of hundreds of thousands of Americans…
Talking the Re-Opening & the Re-Naming of Russell with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the latest developments in Ontario’s Re-opening from COVID-19, how…
Of Empty Words and Unicorns
This week we’ll see something happen in Canadian politics that will be as close to a “normal” event as we have in a long time, although being the age of…
Talking about The Calls for Police Reform 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 the growing calls for police reform in…
Covid Journal, June 14, 2020
Loblaws and Metro have cut ‘danger pay’ for essential workers while raking it in with Covid and continue to avoid social responsibility by skirting mask requirements for workers. Boycott them.…
Donald Trump is no Dick Nixon.
Before events where so rudely interrupted last week, we were thinking of letting the Toronto Star’s Tony Burman know that no matter how he tries, president Trump could never be…
Covid Journal, June 13, 2020
Alberta unbound; Trump-style institutional racism.
Dashcam Video as a Rorschach Test
In Canada we have been watching the events of the past few weeks in the United States with many emotions. Most of us have reacted with disgust at the video…
A Watershed Moment in the Relationship Between Politics & Sports
We all have our passions and things that we love. Those things aren’t always similar and it’s interesting when those things intersect and how they do. For me, my two…
The rumours of our demise…
It is good to be home. After months of quasi isolation, it is still a place of comfort during this pandemic. Being taken by ambulance to the hospital last week…
Disrespect from the Racetrack
Over the past couple of weeks we have seen millions of people come together around the World to march against racism. The fallout from the murder of George Floyd has…
Race, Class, Empire & Authoritarianism
The new empire we live under is a global neofeudal corporate imperialism, which is now morphing into fascism, to be precise. It is systemically racist, self-deluded, and culturally arrogant in…