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About Basic Income and Rents

About Basic Income and Rents

September 17, 2023 It seems this is a topic to return to periodically This is a rework of an article I wrote almost three years ago, when I was just starting with blogging. It got some interest lately, apparently out of the series I did about the present Canadian housing

Canadian Medicare Defenders

Canadian Medicare Defenders

September 24, 2023 Most of them are poor defenders The date of this article is September 24, the day before The Big Day for the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC). It and its labor movement associates have put great resources into building a mass demonstration at the Ontario legislature, Queen’s

Bad Basic Income

Bad Basic Income

October 15, 2023 I wrote a short paper about the Basic Income idea. If you do not know what I am talking about by ‘basic income’, go here. Find it below this introduction. It is enough for a short blog post. It expresses my basic ideas about basic income in

Gaza; No Way Out

Gaza; No Way Out

October 20, 2023 It could not be clearer what side right is on. The latest Gaza war has been rolling for over a week now. I have been watching the situation, making sure I understood things before commenting. But there is no way for me to avoid writing about it.

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty on Universal Basic Income

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty on Universal Basic Income

October 22, 2023 Two interesting papers out of the memory hole of a defunct organization In this blog post I am doing something slightly different. One of my topics is Universal Basic Income (UBI) , including criticisms of it. I also have an interest in Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). OCAP

About Gaza and Holocausts

About Gaza and Holocausts

October 31, 2023 False narratives about genocides enable real ones. I expected to get at least some negativity about my recent article on Gaza. I briefly summarized the actual story about the Jewish holocaust of the 1940s, what it was really about, and how it laid the basis for the

Covid and Occam’s Razor.

Covid and Occam’s Razor.

Covid and Occam’s Razor. November 10, 2023 Using Abductive reasoning about The Pandemic. I originally wrote this some time ago. It got a lot of reads then, but reading back over it I find that it needed some revision. It needed to be clearer. It explains very well why