education

  • Covid Won.

    That doesn’t mean, of course, that the pandemic is over, it means it won’t be over. Not any time soon – instead of fighting it, instead of trying to control it, we just said “fuck it”, and it said no, fuck you – so it did, it is, and it’s going to keep doing it.…

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  • Covid Sucks

    SARS2-COV-19 is an airborne, deadly virus that can attack your immune system, even in mild cases, turning you from a normal, healthy person, into someone at high risk from any infection. Remember the panic back in the day about HIV and AIDS? HIV was transmitted via fluids, not just sexual contact, but not airborne or…

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  • Something that’s been bothering me about political narratives lately. Put aside CPC MPs cavorting with European MP, Christine Anderson, who is considered extremely right wing, authoritarian, racist, and nasty, it’s this strange idea that somehow the Liberals are a progressive party. When I hear someone say that Prime Minister Trudeau is the world’s most successful…

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  • Two things people should know and remember about SARS2 (Covid-19) Note – SARS = Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Not “a cold you don’t need to worry about, it’s no big deal” 1. It’s airborne. If you walk through a poorly ventilated space, someone with the virus who was there 5 hours ago left enough virus…

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  • As an Albertan, I grew up thinking that Liberals hated Alberta, I hated Ontario, and the horror that Ottawa had visited upon our beautiful province. I admired Preston Manning (The guy who created the party that would become the CPC). Then I met a Political Science Prof at Mount Royal College (Mount Royal University now)…

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  • Do Public Services Cost Us?

    Not Helping People Who Struggle Costs More Than Helping Them. I talk about this kind of thing a lot, and I like to bring up things like Public Health, Public Education, Social Services, Employment Insurance, Addiction Services, Public Health Care. As I mentioned, these things don’t cost money – or rather, they pay for themselves.…

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  • Is Education Indoctrination?

    Does post secondary education indoctrinate kids, turn them into liberals? No. well, sometimes, but no. sometimes a bad school will tell you what you should think, but proper educational institutions don’t do that. They’ll provide information, and give you the tools to understand what that information means, and what it doesn’t mean. post secondary teaches…

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