A Dangerous Erosion of Trust?
In hard times, difficult situations and global crises, we need to be able to trust the information we get from our governments. Reliable information is important to help people do…
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Talking Our Responsibilities to One Another with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about saturdays scene in Trinity Bellwoods Park…
Not Helping the Team: The Contrary MPP
Since Saturday’s events at Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto, the debate around what happened there, how it should have been prevented and what both governments and individuals need to do…
The Awkward Collision of Pre-Covid Politics & Covid Reality
These times that we’re living in, wow. We’re into the last week of May and it’s striking to think of all the things that we’ve seen take place over the…
Talking the Return of Parliament & Parties Collecting the Federal Wage Subsidy 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 today’s return of Parliament, how it should…
Covid Journal, May 25, 2020
A Covid cure, religion, politics and austerity: all the things we’re not supposed to discuss at the dinner table.
Covid Journal, May 20, 2020
Jason Kenney and Elizabeth May falling apart at the seams …
Why are Covidiots teaming up with the far right?
Share this: Misinformation about the Covid-19 Pandemic has been circulating through the internet much like a virus would. Those with a disdain for science and rational thought tirelessly tweet, comment,…
Scenes from a Mall II
Here in Peoples Republic of Alberta, life is returning to some semblance of normal; or, if I may employ the most overused expression of the day, the ‘new normal’. If…
Our Responsibilities to One Another
We’re going into the last week of May, and I must admit it feels strange to think that we are. It does because that means we’re almost in June, which…
Harry Who?
It is a different world for poor Harry Windsor. He cut himself off from the trappings of royalty with surgical precision. Now he is staring up from a prone position…
Licia Corbella opinion piece “let’s down the side”; it let’s Alberta down.
I come from a family that loves playing sports. So, being of Caribbean Heritage, I always heard one phrase: “don’t let the side down”. Now, to be honest, it is…
The Truth But Apparently Not The Whole Truth
In many ways, I consider myself to be a very fortunate person. In my 40 years on this Earth so far, I’ve had the chance to live out some dreams…
An Honourable Executive
Amazon is a corporation famous for a number of things: revolutionizing retail, making its founder and CEO the world’s richest man, and creating workplaces that resemble 19th century sweatshops. All…
Royal Failure in Thunder Bay
We’re well into month three of dealing with Covid-19 and somedays it’s hard to believe that it’s been so long. Yet the longer we go into this moment the more…
Covid Journal, May 21, 2020
School’s Out … FOREVER! In Ontario, Stephen Lecce announced on May 20 that school will not reconvene until September, 2020 … at the earliest. Meanwhile, old white men can continue…
Not Helping the Team: Guess Who’s Coming to Testify
During the Covid-19 global pandemic we’ve had many sobering reminders about the importance of correct and reliable information. There has been so much garbage floating around, with others trying to…
Covid Journal, May 19, 2020
‘Green’ seems to be the key word for recovery from Covid.
Scheer’s Consistent Inconsistency
2020 has been a crazy year so far, and maybe the continual piling of crap coming from it is wearing on me. Or maybe it’s because I’m getting older and…
Gender, Hierarchy, Civilization & Collapse: A Few Thoughts
What did Sumeria ever do for us? Invented writing, our concepts of time, irrigation, cities, created the first literature…little stuff like that. Sumeria predates ancient Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and…