RIP Naomi Wilansky

And this morning, I pay my respects to the memory of Naomi Wilansky. Naomi was a friend of longstanding from the Pen and Paper Writing Workshop here in Ottawa. She was devoted to cats and writing for children. She was part of the local Toastmasters group. She was firm in her own faith traditions.

She was my friend.

Basic Income

Assuming Canada's applecart doesn't get overturned by the tantrums of either Trump or Xi...I would feel safer if I knew with certainty that this was a floor - adjusted for inflation continually - that I would never be allowed to fall through.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/basic-income-economic-impact-canada_ca_5fd12057c5b68ce17184ca61

Arts, Work, Health, Politics, Ideas, Ecology

1. Artists are workers. Right?

2. Our first vaccine-candidate approval, this week. What next?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vaccine-rollout-plan-phac-1.5833912

3. Freeland brings the clarity. If we can't have an NDP-Green coalition, then this is a good thing that she's in her present job until then.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-big-spend-finance-1.5833774

4. Have any of you been listening to Ideas this week? They're replaying the 1989 Massey Lectures with Ursula Franklin.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-humane-world-of-ursula-franklin-a-scientist-who-wanted-us-to-question-technology-1.5825485