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I get the impression that there are now two types of Americans. There are Americans who believe they live in a democracy and those who couldn’t care less.  Some, such as professors Gilens and Page, believe that representative democracy in America is finished. In its place is an elected yet

  Is this your future? Probably not but it might be your grandkids’ future. This graph depicts the likely consequences of global warming destroying the polar ice caps, the end of the cryosphere.  Climate scientists are now looking into the likelihood of “cascades.” Think of an avalanche. It begins with

  After what we’ve all been through these past 15 months who can blame us if we think we’ve finally gotten the upper hand on the Covid-19 virus. We’re starting to see the arrival of large supplies of vaccines. The focus is now shifting to second or booster shots. Summer

  Ian Mosby, PhD, has written a history of biomedical experimentation on indigenous people in Canada during the second half of the 20th century. A review of Mosby’s work, “Canada’s shameful history of nutrition research on residential school children,” has been published by the US National Institutes of Health. This

  Bishop Grandin was a venerated cleric in the western provinces.  There is a Bishop Grandin Boulevard in Winnipeg, a Grandin LRT station in Edmonton complete with mural of Grandin and a Residential School, and a Bishop Grandin High School in Calgary.  Suddenly the old bastard isn’t as popular as

  When I was a child I went to visit my grandfather’s farm outside Leamington. The fields that would soon deliver an abundance of tomatoes for Heinz or sweet corn and peas for Green Giant were freshly tilled revealing the rich, black soil that was the key to their productivity.

  A lot of us have this “they’ll think of something” attitude whenever talk turns to the looming, even existential threats of the day.  I have a friend, a guy who made a considerable fortune in mergers & acquisitions/corporate finance stuff. He was in town and invited me to join

  When Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney ushered in the neoliberal era of globalized free trade we were fed a package of lies. Yes, we would say goodbye to most of our manufacturing jobs but they would be replaced with even better jobs at higher wages and more of ’em. It

  Vietnam has discovered a new Covid variant, a hybrid.  “We have discovered a new hybrid variant from the Indian and the UK strains,” the health minister, Nguyen Thanh Long, was quoted as telling a national meeting on the pandemic on Saturday. “The characteristic of this strain is that it

  I hope to not hear anyone boasting about our great Canadian values, not for a while, not after the discovery of 215 unmarked children’s graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. More than a century worth of Canadian governments, Conservative and Liberal alike, looked the other way as First

  America has a new Bible. It’s the “God Bless America Bible.” Think of it as the scriptural equivalent of Reese’s pieces. The “God Bless the USA Bible” is expected to go on sale in September, in time to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according

What sort of a summer are we in for? That depends on where you stand in a latitudinal sense. The more distance between you and the equator the better off you’ll likely be for it could be a scorcher. A professor from Georgia Tech, Brian Stone, has emerged as a