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Japan Confirms 10 nCoV Cases Aboard Quarantined Cruise Ship; Officials Warn Virus Could “Spread Widely Through Hong Kong”
Japan Confirms 10 nCoV Cases Aboard Quarantined Cruise Ship; Officials Warn Virus Could “Spread Widely Through Hong Kong” Summary: Confirmed deaths: 490 Confirmed cases on mainland: 24,324; additional 172 in ROW Chinese authorities have enforced full community lockdown in Nanjing Province American Airlines, Cathay Pacific and Jetstar close routes to China Taiwan tightens travel restrictions […]
China Curbs Travel To Hong Kong As Projections Show 300,000 Might Already Be Infected
China Curbs Travel To Hong Kong As Projections Show 300,000 Might Already Be Infected Update (0700ET): Minutes ago, CNBC reported that the White House has held multiple meetings about the coronavirus led by Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger. ✔ NEW: The White House has been convening multiple meetings on #coronavirus in recent days, convened by […]
Trans Mountain Deal Was Structured to Bleed Billions, Finds Economist
Trans Mountain Deal Was Structured to Bleed Billions, Finds Economist Robyn Allan dug into the megaproject’s economics and says it’s already losing money When Finance Minister Bill Morneau paid $4.5 billion for the 66-year-old Trans Mountain pipeline in 2018, he vowed the deal would bring cash and smiles to taxpayers. Almost 18 months after the […]
Personal Politics, Public Impeachment, Persuasion and Post-Apocalyptic Planning
Personal Politics, Public Impeachment, Persuasion and Post-Apocalyptic Planning One of my primary concerns regarding the forthcoming economic chaos and societal breakdown is that there will be nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. As normalcy bias evaporates like tears on dehydrated sunken cheeks, hungry neighbors and pre-collapse friends and acquaintances will soon assimilate into zombie […]
Academic Freedom Re-examined
This is a ‘reprint’ of a letter-to-the-editor I wrote as a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario and was published in the McMaster Courier, June 20, 1989. I print it here just to share some thoughts and wonder if we were to substitute the notion of a ‘free press’ […]
Preserving And Creating ‘Wealth’
Preserving And Creating ‘Wealth’ Avoiding loss of one’s ‘wealth’ from whatever crises may befall you and/or your family seems paramount to helping avoid or at least mitigate the negative consequences that accompany emergencies and disasters, or even the general decline of civilisation. With currency devaluation, government overreach, civil unrest, bank bail-in legislation, labour strife, market […]
It Just Doesn’t Matter
It Just Doesn’t Matter When an avalanche is about to descend upon you, does it really matter which snowflake was the penultimate cause? While it’s interesting (in a mental masturbation kind of way) to debate the genesis of a pending market collapse, environmental chaos, or energy cliff, in the end, it really doesn’t matter–unless, of course, […]
CBC and the Control of Narratives, A Rant
During the CBC’s Ontario Today show (July 10) the theme was one of cheerleading the Pan-Am games taking place in the Greater Toronto Area and sharing plans for those games. I called to share a contrarian perspective, basically that it was another example of a massive misallocation of diminishing resources and energy (not meant as […]
Stouffville Corner
A new section of my site, Stouffville Corner, aims to provide a variety of write-ups on topics I consider to be of primary importance/ interest. The aim was to have my local paper, Stouffville Tribune, publish them on a weekly/bi-weekly basis to bring the issues to the consciousness of my local community (thus the name). […]
Olduvai.ca
Once again my site is under reconstruction due to technical glitches that continue to plague it….if you are interested in my novel, please check out FriesenPress, Amazon.ca, or Amazon.com.
