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…
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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…
Talking the Slow Re-Opening 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 slow start of re-opening from…
Tennis, anyone? Don’t you DARE!
In Victorian times, doctors had an expression: “The operation was a success, but the patient died.” Doctoring in Victorian times was a pretty iffy proposition; once they ran out of…
Talking the Beginning of the Easing COVID-19 Restrictions 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 provinces beginning to ease COVID-19 restrictions, if…
Not Helping the Team: From Our Own Backyard
We’re into the beginning of May and it’s amazing to think that we’re closing in on two-months of the measures we’ve had to take to fight Covid-19. It’s been a…
Covid Journal, May 4, 2020
May the 4th. Covid Exposes Canada’s State of Ecommerce (and how it can and should be MUCH better).