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…
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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,…
Plauge Update: POStmedia Shows Its Soul
That's sick. Heaven forbid that poor people not be poor on the other end of a crisis where they lose family members and friends. Wouldn't want to accidentally make the…
Covid & the Left: An open letter
It matters not what group it was this letter was addressed to. What matters is the content. Please read: (Note that WordPress randomly gets buggy on me and will not…
Talking the State of Canadian Politics with Critical Thinking
A few weeks back I had the chance to finally get to join the crew at YourTV Brockville’s “Critical Thinking”, with host Leigh Bursey & guest host Josh Bennett. Finally…
The Case for Emergency Benefits
As government and our society responds to the crises created by Covid-19, we’ve seen governments at all levels take actions that would have seemed completely unthinkable just a couple short…
The Dishonourable Senator from Northwestern Ontario: Hometown Disappointment
With everything that’s been going on around Covid-19 it’s a bit amazing to think about some of the things we were discussing before all this happened. While some of it…
Talking the Re-Opening from Covid-19 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 Ontario’s announcement on their plan for…
Covid Journal, April 28, 2020
A creepy, yet important message from ‘the virus’. And Facebook enables extreme right-wing ‘Boogaloo’ advocates, people calling for a second civil war in the US.
And now, some good news …
So, for a chance of pace, let’s talk about something other than Covid-19. So-o-o-o, how about that weather, eh? Nice to have some sunshine for a change. But jeez, it’s…
Dodging Delivery Unionization
The past couple of months have been very hard on many Canadians as we try to stop the spread of Covid-19. It’s been hard on those who have fallen ill…