Mystic Tea Party – Honey
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Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Crawford Kilian writes about the profound and numerous forms of loss arising from the wildfires which leveled much of Jasper, while Marc Fawcett-Atkinson points out the typical firestorm of disinformation which immediately followed from the anti-reality right. Edward Struzik discusses the need for
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jonathan Watts discusses the strong argument to treat climate hypocrites primarily as destructive petrostates rather than honest actors in trying to address the climate crisis. Leyland Cecco points out how Canada in particular fits that description in subsidizing and promoting dirty energy
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett lament that inequality continues to get worse fifteen years after they warned of its myriad harms. And George Monbiot writes about the deadening effect of extreme wealth, as the people with the most achieve no particular benefit from
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LAUREL – Wild Things
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Letting Your Biases Get In Front Of You
Yesterday, I ran across this essay on X(itter), and it annoyed me because the author makes all kinds of errors of both fact and reason. Since things on X have a nasty habit of disappearing at random, I will start with a bunch of screen captures of the essay itself.
Continue readingJeff Jedras: Eating on the road: Stash Café in Montreal
Like many Canadians, my family tree is complicated so I can’t claim my heritage to just one country. I was born here. My Mom was too, but her parents would trace to the US and Switzerland. My Dad moved here as a kid but was born in London and grew
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Yes, Andrew, Democracy Is Under Attack In Canada
So, Andrew Coyne muses that Justin Trudeau should just step aside in the wake of a recent by-election defeat. His reasoning? Well – it’s a bit of a jumble of deflection, redirection and obfuscation. Oddly enough, he makes a far better summary of his reasoning in one post on X
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Iris – Appetite
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Assorted content to end your week. – Matt Stoller writes about the “economic termites” whose barely-noticed individual bites into personal finances are adding up to a fundamentally unsound economic structure. Imogen Tyler discusses how UK demagoguery against the receipt of social benefits has provided cover for an appalling increase in
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Crawford Kilian discusses how avoidable harms to people’s health and well-being are inflicted on us as “costs of doing business”. Patrick Miner et al. examine the harm cars cause to people and the environment – including a seven-figure death toll every year. Rishabh Chauhan
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Christopher Nardi reports on Liam Iliffe’s unwitting revelations about how fossil fuel companies regularly thumb their noses at lobbying requirements and other rules while pulling the strings of compliant Canadian governments. Amanda Follett Hosgood discusses the growing push to ban at least blatantly
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Countertop cat.
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Hazel Sheffield and Larry Elliott report on new research showing that the austerity and low-wage policies of the UK Cons have pushed nearly a million children into poverty. – Caroline Anders notes that over 1,400 temperature records were broken just in the
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UFO X – Shine
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Geoffrey Deihl writes about the polycrisis we’re currently facing – and the need to stand up to those determined to inflict it on us. And Laura Paddison discusses the juxtaposition between continually-increasing carbon pollution, and the extreme heat and weather it’s causing.
Continue readingJeff Jedras: Eating on the road: Finally making it to Montreal’s Joe Beef
The famed Joe Beef has always been first on my list when visiting Montreal on a culinary adventure, but securing a reservation can be a challenge. It’s a Montreal institution featured by Anthony Bourdain and many other food shows. Thankfully, I lucked out during my February visit and was even
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Assorted content to end your week. – Jennifer Sandlin discusses a new analysis showing how COVID-19 infections lead to numerous other types of infectious diseases, while Devika Rao writes about the medical recognition that they may also increase the risk of cancers. And Sam Wollaston offers Natacha Gray’s account of the
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