The Quiggin Report

EP #101 | Pandemic by the Numbers

We have a reliable estimate that there are now 18,000 cases in Canada as of 26 March 2020. This is against the official number of just over 3000 listed as we are recording this podcast. If you double that every three days, that is 36,000 cases by end March and 72,000 cases in the first few days of April 2020. These are all low-end assessments. How did we arrive at these numbers?

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EP #100 | Adapt. Persevere. Overcome. Living in a Time of Crisis

The world is involved in an unprecedented crisis driven by a pandemic, an oil price war and a financial crisis that has been years in the making. How should you think about these problems and how should you react? Do not panic. Think. Plan. Accept the idea that your world of last week will be different next week. As the US Marine Corp says: Adapt. Persevere. Overcome. It is a motto for your life in a time of crisis.

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Qatar Papers: FORD NATION & The Islamists

We have have documentary evidence that Councillor Rob Ford was writing letters of support for an organization that was seeking funding from Qatar Charity. This funding they were seeking is given only to those groups who support the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood. But given that Mr Rob Ford is deceased it seems unreasonable to pursue this any further without his being able to identify what he was thinking at the time. But we do have Doug Ford. The examples we will discuss today will show that there are Islamist influences in his government which are commonly known. But yet he chooses to take no action. This does seem strange.

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