More reasons why, seen in Licia Corbella’s important column today, found here. My post on Raworth, which you should also read, is here. In January 2018, an Alberta woman said on Twitter that 10 years earlier, while working at the Alberta legislature — when Hehr was an MLA for the
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading: idiot wind, a memoir by peter kaldheim
One of the many wonderful things about working in a library is having access to such a wide variety of books. This has greatly broadened my choice of reading material. In the past, I kept a list, mostly based on book reviews, and read almost exclusively from my List. I
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Policing: On Finding the Line
A mask, six feet, and being outdoors: pick any two at a time, amirite? Plus wash your hands before and after eating or touching your face. Pretty easy. So, ironilly, sort of, as I wrote about the importance avoiding policing one another in our daily lives, I got lled out
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mark Smolinski writes that wearing a mask to limit the spread of COVID-19 is best characterized as a sign of mutual respect. (But sadly, that goes a long way toward explaining the anti-mask movement among adherents to politil movements built on exclusion and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Add It All Up – the Real Costs of Covid-19
Things we know – people on holiday are also taking a holiday from Covid-19. Many of them take a break from wearing masks or social distancing. Whether gathering on some beach or strolling the streets of a resort town or downing a few beers at a tavern, they’re likely to
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Fleur de lys or Iris…
We are half way through the week of summer’s first holidays around here. Quebec’s Fête nationale was last Wednesday and next Wednesday will be nada Day. Such a strange time! No big celebrations, just small gatherings and some lovely flowers in bloom. The fleur de lys, the iris, is Quebec’s
Continue readingnadian Soapbox: Florida and Ontario – Why the divergence in Covid results?
Simple people like simple solutions. We’ve had it drilled into our collective little brains that the only measure to fight the novel and mostly benign coronavirus is with social distancing and isolation measures, more broadly referred to as “locking down”. Hence when one jurisdiction has differing results from another the
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: WE take re of our friends
Alex Ballingall at the Toronto Star has done outstanding work on this burgeoning sndal. (So much for your media conspiracy theories, conservative trolls.?) @NADALAND are dicks, but they did good work on the “WE” non-profit which @JustinTrudeau just made very profitable. Along with being a conflict of interest, Ottawa has
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Globe and Mail Letter
Today’s Globe and Mail contains a letter to the editor from yours truly (second from the bottom) in response to an op-ed criticizing those who take offence at J.K. Rowling’s misguided views on trans people. I discuss one of my pet peeves in the current “free speech” wars — namely,
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Harris’s Ghost
Mike Harris’s ghost continues to stalk the province of Ontario. Martin Regg Cohn writes: It is impossible to follow provincial politics today without fathoming the ghost of Ontario’s 22nd premier, still looming over Ontario — from devastating death tolls to controversial road tolls. Nursing homes rules were watered down. Water
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: O’Toole should cool it.
It is a pity to waste good politil advice on conservatives but MP Erin O’Toole’s current hissy fit with Peter MacKay’s leadership organization could use irreparable harm in nadian politics. And rather than being amused by the lack of politil smarts of the Erin O’Toole leadership organization, most knowledgeable politicos
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Kenney’s controversial speechwriter listed as CEO of federal Conservatives’ Edmonton Strathcona constituency association
Given the uproar over an article widely perceived as expressing racist sentiments by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s speechwriter, it will be interesting to see how the Conservative Party of nada reacts to the fact Paul Bunner is also chief executive of its Edmonton Strathcona constituency association. As of the close
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musil interlude
Whale and the Wolf – Touch
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Covid-19 And The Dream Of A Better World
It's only been about four months since Covid-19 started sickening and killing people all over nada and the world. And who knows how many more will die in the weeks and months ahead.Or how long it will take for our economy to recover.But along with the upheaval of the Black
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will The MacKay O’Toole War Damage The Con Brand?
The Con leadership race was always going to be a sleazy affair. With two old Harperite hacks, and two social conservatives vying to be leader what else could it be?Especially since the two Harperites have been shamefully pandering to the two religious fanatics who will almost certainly determine the winner.But
Continue readingnadian Dimension: Meng Wanzhou, Huawei and nadian Law
Huawei booth at the Mobile World Congress 2015 Barcelona. Photo by Kārlis Dambrāns/Flickr. One of the graver risks for big-time criminals is that investigators will be able to identify them and their deeds by ‘following the money’. The criminals have to hide the proceeds of their crimes. This is done
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Covid Journal, June 26, 2020
Masks,. settlements and the state of non-profits in a Covid-world.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Theirs Is Not To Reason
Owen’s blog post today discusses how the world sees the United States as a nation to be shunned, one of the reasons being its entirely inept handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Clearly, its refusal to confront this peril in a responsible, mature manner means that its citizens have become a
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Lee Stevens writes that the coronavirus pandemic has exposed longstanding weaknesses in our social safety net which have used large amounts of avoidable poverty: A generation ago, our income support and social service programs were working (albeit not perfect) since it was possible
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Are Climate Scientists Selling Us Down the River?
I always took it as a given that climate scientists always spoke truth to power. Now I’m not so sure. Kevin Anderson is a professor of energy and climate change. He contends that British climate scientists are failing to give their government the hard facts. “Ademics have done an excellent
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