Basic Income: The Right Time? (Video)
The newest episode of the Magpie Brûlé Video Podcast is now up. In this episode, I talk about the response of the Federal government to Covid-19, the lessons of the…
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Neoliberalism & The Death Of The Middle Class
The death of the middle class is due to a very conscious, four decade class war, known as neoliberalism. (See Chomsky, Profits Over People, and, Requiem For The American Dream.…
Plague Update: Trump Keeps It Clean
We all know what a stable genius the President is, you really have to admire him coming up with quality solutions on the fly during a press conference. Medical doctors…
Nostalgia For Simpler Times
I generally am not one for nostalgia, having a strong preference for living in the present, and looking to the future. Further, I rarely write in conversational colloquialisms. But I…
Kindred Spirits: Tuscany, Navarre, and Captain Picard
I was curious about Navarre, after watching Star Trek TNG “Family”, and seeing that Captain Picard is from (outside) a small village in Navarre. What a fascinating place, rich in…
Covid Journal, April 24, 2020
More racist Consense, this time from Conservative MP Derek Sloan, claiming Dr. Theresa Tam is working for China. Repugnant.
Plague Update: Saskatchewan Prepares To Increase Infections
It’s no surprise to most reading this that I have a low opinion of Saskatchewan’s Premier. He’s an unlovable oaf. He’s never been elected by the general electorate to be…
Covid Journal, April 23, 2020
Is there a debt reckoning coming? Will it lead to austerity or freedom from debt? We have a choice to make, but had better set out on the right path…
Dog whistling to the Leadership
As the World has responded to the threat of Covid-19, we’ve seen some amazing examples of people putting aside partisan difference, coming together, and working to help all of society.…
Clawing Back the Compassion
Throughout the fight against Covid-19 we’ve had many surprises, most of them unpleasant ones. But there have been some good surprises, things many of us might not expected due to…
Covid Journal, April 22, 2020
Heart breaking news from Nova Scotia.
De-cluttering The Mind – And Our “Civilization”
If we had only Socrates, Shakespeare, Montaigne and Thoreau as guides, to direct our course, and tell us about the world and how to live in it, I think we…
Covid Journal, April 21, 2020
How can a ‘market’ be a market without a market? Our stock markets are based on underlying principles like cash flow, employment numbers, productivity and sales. With none of the…
Crisis Overreach in Manitoba
As Canadian governments, both Federal and Provincial, have been fighting Covid-19 and doing their best to meet the needs to the public, that effort has required steps to be taken…
Is Oil Profitable? Negative.
This has been obvious to me for most of the last decade, after it became clear that good information was never going to win over enough people, because disinformation had…
Unplug: Nine Weeks To Basic Clarity
Important, extremely useful books here. A brain washing, in the sense of clearing away the fog and gaining some clarity and perspective, is critically needed, now more than ever. What…
Talking Tragedy in Nova Scotia & a Gradual Re-Open from Covid-19 with Kristy Cameron
Today I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the tragedy over the weekend in…
Facebook Corrections Leave Questions
The problem with this Facebook censorship/correction of disinformation is that they’re really bad at censoring. My blog has been blocked for years, and they’ve never responded to my appeal to…
Talking Tragedy in Nova Scotia 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 had a hard discussion about the tragedy from…
Covid Journal, April 20, 2020
What is terrorism if it’s not being forced to hide in your basement waiting for someone disguised as an RCMP officer to shoot you in the back?