Vaccine-Nation
In April last year, as Donald Trump handed the pandemic over to the states to deal with, and then kept Democratic ones from receiving funding
July 22, 2021
August 9, 2021
Tags: covid19
The Plague-Ground – What Happens When You Finally Leave Your Abuser
Every expert says this is the most dangerous time. You have crossed the man who has stolen your life. His rage is volcanic; his hurt,
November 27, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – Virus and Vaccine: Charting our death and resurrection
Back on Friday, March 13th, we were all so doe-eyed and naive. COVID was killing thousands in Italy and in Canada we’d all just been
November 25, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – You’re at a movie in a packed theatre. You smell smoke.
You see flames flicker up from an empty seat in front of you. You’re tempted to stand up and yell “Fire!” But you don’t because that
November 16, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – I Scream. You Scream.
You’d think political conventions were created in order to analyse what those conventions mean. Of the eight opinion pieces on the home page of this
August 28, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – Is the cavalry coming?
The fate-of-humankind question isn’t “When will a vaccine arrive?” It’s also: “Who will take the vaccine?” Two things happened last week to help us answer
July 27, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – Justin Not-So-True Though
I won’t write about the loucheness of Justin Trudeau, his need to feather his mother’s nest, his whac–a-mole conflicts of interest; nor the conflicts of
July 20, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – The herd has moved.
You can scratch and claw and fight and hope and despair, and for years nothing changes. Then one day, everything changes. We are living one
June 30, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – Plants Have Ears Too
This week in Barcelona, a string quartet played to a full house of plants. The 10-minute concert was put on to reinforce how important art,
June 26, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – It’s an “and-and” thing.
Toronto is one of the last places in North America still largely closed by the pandemic. Good. Because saving our lives or saving our economy
June 18, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – What We Didn’t Know
Today is 13 weeks exactly since millions of us were told not to come back to our offices and stay home. Three months exactly. One
June 12, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – It is solved by walking
My wife Jean and I once trekked 1,000 miles on the Appalachian Trail. It took us three months with our 45 lb. packs strapped to
May 27, 2020
August 9, 2021
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