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…
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Covid Journal, May 4, 2020
May the 4th. Covid Exposes Canada’s State of Ecommerce (and how it can and should be MUCH better).
How are Canadian Scientists Fighting Covid-19?
Share this: As of May 3, 2020 Covid-19 has spread to 220 countries around the world with over 3 million confirmed cases and almost 250,000 deaths so far. It is…
Covid Journal, May 3, 2020
The Great Realization, where Hindsight is 2020 Many of you may have seen this video making the rounds. It’s worth watching. It reminds us: why return to normal when normal…
“Unprecedented” – Reality vs Delusion
Every year a tragic event happens. 300,000 to 500,000 people die globally of the flu. Most are very old, very ill, or immune compromised. In 2020 fewer people have died…
Conservative Leadership Campaign Back Again
The newest episode of the Magpie Brûlé Video Podcast is now up. In this episode, I talk about the return of the Conservative Leadership Race, the fails & disturbing comments…
Covid Journal, May 2, 2020
Guns banned, Bill Gates calls for a ‘Final Solution’ and Fauci doesn’t seem that infallible.
Peter MacKay’s Smelly Avian Adoption
It’s the end of the week and the start of a new month, which you’d think might mark a good time for folks to do a few things a bit…
Plague Update: Death For Dollars
The reckless and callous Sask Party prepares on Monday to start the calculated risk AKA killing process. Because golf is literally more important than some guy’s grandma, amirite? More than…
The Conservative Dilemma… Continued in More Tweets
Life can be a crazy thing folks, if 2020 has taught us anything so far surely that must be one of the lessons. Just when you think some things couldn’t…
Cutting through the crap, with Matt Taibbi
Along with John Pilger, Abby Martin, & the handful of honest journalists left standing, I love Matt Tabbi. Here he sums up what’s wrong with politics & the media, in…
The end of Bernie, the beginning of the Revolution
I was and am a supporter or Bernie Sanders, like Ron Paul before him, because he truly represents the interests of constitutional democracy, and the rule of the people, by…
Video Calls: Communication In A Hyper-Connected & Deeply Dissociated Society
Thoughtful commentators to the Smithsonian and BBC recently “recommended limiting video calls to only those that are necessary. Petriglieri adds that positioning the video screen to your side may make…
Covid Journal, April 30, 2020
Change is coming. Will anxious opponents to lockdown and house arrest push out sooner than the politicians want us to or will we actually be able to push for real,…
The Conservative Dilemma in One Tweet
Just as the Green Party got some interesting positive news for their leadership race, it seems that the bad keeps pouring in for the Conservatives around their leadership race. It’s…
Covid Journal, April 29, 2020
Loblaws reports record revenue but continues to dodge taxes. Small businesses that pay all taxes are closing by the thousands. Buy local. Save our cities. Save our economy.
Work and Workaholism: Puritanism, and A Day Off
This morning when I got up, feeling exhausted again from the on-going 30-year stint of sleeplessness and insomnia, I thought, I should take a day off – considering I pretty…
The Surprising Green Saviour?
The fight against Covid-19 has sidelined many things that we would normally be worried about, and rightfully so. It’s amazing to think about some of the things our political circles…
The Real Resistance: Lessons From History
It does not require a majority to defeat tyranny and defend liberty, but only a small and dedicated minority – as we saw in the American and French Revolutions,…
Glenn Gould On Orwell
Yo, listen up, blokes! (He says, in order to mash and mangle and generally have fun with various voices, inflections, accents and colloquilisms, as Gould was fond of doing himself,…