Head Tale

Coronavirus
I was in a meeting tonight and in the course of about an hour, my phone buzzed to tell me that: 1) Trump was going to start heavily restricting travel from Europe to US; 2) the NBA was cancelling their season; and 3) Tom Hanks and his wife have the disease.  It’s a wild, scary time and I oscillate between thinking everything will be fine and thinking I should start gargling with hand sanitizer and wrapping myself in toilet paper. 😮

Sask Provincial Election?

I’m an NDP partisan but trying to look at it from a completely neutral point of view, is it not *insane* that Scott Moe is thinking of dropping the writ right after the budget is released in a week and then having Sask people go to the polls in a month with so much uncertainty?

(With that said, if Scott Moe picks now to run against *Dr* Ryan Meili, by all means, do your worst.  I’ll go so far as to predict that if Moe calls an election during a fucking pandemic, it might go a lot worse for his party than he expects.)

Democratic Primaries in the US

It’s not over yet (someone said Sanders is closer to Biden today than Obama was to Hillary in 2008) but I’m extremely disappointed that Bernie Sanders seems to have cratered after doing so well early on in the primaries. But it’s obviously a huge hill to climb to convince Americans to join the rest of the developed world in having a strong social safety net, reduce wealth inequality and yes, a healthcare system that’s not going to ask to see your credit card before they see your health card.  But who knows – maybe Sanders won’t be the President to bring in a national healthcare plan.  Perhaps he’ll be the Tommy Douglas, a socialist firebrand, who lays the groundwork for someone else (in Canada, Lester Pearson) to implement a national medicare-for-all plan.

And Finally, Will The NHL Season Be Cancelled Next?
God, I hope not.  But it’s a weird coincidence that the NHL’s current best player (er, no offence to Sidney Crosby) has a name that provides a clue!!!