Covid Journal, May 9, 2020
Another US-lead failed coup and more about fake food.
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The Plague: Then & Now
Europe did not respond well to the biggest plague in its history, in 1347-1351, to put it mildly – with anti-semitism, pogroms, scapegoating, witch trials, burning heretics at the stake,…
The Good, The Bad and the Connie
When the history of Canada’s fight against Covid-19 is written, after all of this is done, part of that history will tell the tale of those who shone in this…
Lessons In Liberty, Democracy, and Eternal Vigilance
Here are some important lessons in liberty, democracy and civil rights: From the eloquence of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Too bad our politicians, pundits and intellectuals typically lack such uncommon common…
EVs Arrived
The Regina Car Share Co-op‘s newest cars for their fleet have arrived, and are being prepared. Thanks to Affinity Credit Union, the car share had enough money to purchase 2…
Moral bankruptcy in a time of “plague”
20,000 children die a day of hunger, and nobody notices, nobody makes a peep: outcry is basically zero. But a new strain of the flu (statistically less dangerous than…
Quebec’s Risky Scholastic Return
We’ve reached the point during the Covid-19 pandemic where governments are starting to have deeper conversations about re-opening things and re-starting some economic activities that have been shut down since…
Covid Journal, May 8, 2020
Remembering VE Day; Should Dividends Be Distributed First to Essential Employees?
Bad-Asses Wanted
Sometimes you have to be a little bit bad-ass – just to be a decent person, and do what must be done to help and protect others. Gandhi was…
A Normal Returning Too Fast
As we have been battling Covid-19 we’ve seen many things happen that Canadians can be proud of. As someone who worked and volunteered in politics for over a decade, one…
The Policy Possibilities of this Moment
We’re living in hard times that are full of so much uncertainty for so many. Covid-19 has turned the lives of millions of Canadians on its head and that’s forced…
What happens to Alberta when the 7th largest economy drives Electric Cars?
What would happen to an Oil Exporter when the world’s seventh largest economy decides that over the next fifteen years it will phase out gas powered cars? Any economist would…
Plague Update: Frugality Saves Itself
It’s become trendy to be thrifty. Frugal, even. There’s always been a case for being frugal, but now it’s more apparent to a society facing supply chain disruptions from an…
The Dishonourable Senator from Northwestern Ontario: Natural Consequences Come to Dryden
It was just a bit more than a week ago that I had the sad duty to report here on the sad inaction taken by the council of the City…
Disconnected from the Present
Yesterday here at this blog I wrote a piece about how certain political figures have shown an inability to look past their partisan stereotypes in order to rise to the…
Covid Journal, May 6, 2020
Today’s highlights: Trump tyranny, Ford fingering and food fail.
The Blue Cold Shoulder
As we have been fighting Covid-19 there have been some interesting developments in how we have reacted to certain things that would be normally be a part of our political…
Everything you need to know about covid-19
Worldwide there have been 321 cases of COVID-19, or Wuhan flu, per million people. There is the answer re: how infectious is it? Negligible. Gain of function over the flu,…
Plague Update: ReOpen Rant
You’ve probably got friends on that gosh awful Facebook website who’re clamouring to go back to normal. They want the certainty of a steady paycheque, the regular services, and plentiful…
Andrew Scheer is now pushing “Re-open Canada” nonsense.
Share this: The so-called “Re-open Canada” protests around Canada are much smaller than the protests south of our border, but they are no less freakish. In Vancouver, the protest was…