It first flew in 2006. After 15 years you might think the manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, would have the bugs worked out. Not so much. The F-35 has always been short on just about everything: range, payload, reliability – in a dogfight it gets its tail waxed by the far older,
Continue readingThe Decarie Report: A VERY UNHAPPY BLOG
I’m really astonished by the Canadian (and American) contempt for the Chinese – and for the popular belief that the Chinese live in poverty and filth – and with no housing. In reality, it’s the U.S. and Canada who have thrown huge numbers of people into the streets. It’s us
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: October 14, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Canada’s vaccine passport for travellers expected ‘within weeks’ via @TorontoStar https:// – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Amativa Banerjee writes about the cognitive dissonance involved in living through the COVID-19 pandemic. And Ian Sample reports on scientists’ recognition that the UK’s deadly second COVID wave was the result of the repetition of mistakes and a failure to learn from the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Time to Get Tough with China?
In some provinces you can’t go into bars or restaurants without a vaccine “passport,” proof that you have received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Next month Canadians will be able to travel to the States again but, likewise, you’ll need to have that vaccine passport. Airlines require it.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Be Careful What You Wish For
Now that the U.S. has announced its land borders will be open to vaccinated Canadians sometime in November, many, especially snowbirds, are exultant. There are, however, numerous reasons to temper that enthusiasm, including the poor rate of full vaccination south of us (only 57%), the ever-present threat of violence, and
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: TWO NEW FREE COURSES – ONLINE AND JUST FOR CAREGIVERS
When our son Nicholas was two, he had an operation to insert a feeding tube in his tummy. It was a tough decision made a little easier by the fact that our son’s cerebral palsy made sucking, chewing and swallowing so difficult for him that his growth slowed to an
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Same Path?
Over the last two weeks, Ontario’s airwaves have been flooded with political attack ads. Bob Hepburn writes: At breakfast early last week I was appalled to hear a political attack ad air on a popular Toronto radio station. No, it wasn’t a leftover ad from the federal election. Instead, just
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : Doing a Dance with Doug.
Ontario premier Doug Ford isn’t much of a politician but whomever is advising him on the day care file isn’t either. The feds are offering Ontario $10 billion to get on board the federal day care deal and the Ontario conservatives are hemming and hawing! They have to be clueless
Continue readingAlberta Politics: How low can Jason Kenney go? This week’s poll, same as last week’s poll, puts him at 22%
How low can he go? It’s probably more than coincidence that the second poll in just over a week has placed Alberta Premier Jason Kenney at an approval rate of 22 per cent. Angus Reid Institute’s chart showing its poll results of Canadian premiers’ approval ratings (Image: Angus Reid Institute).
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: ten reasons to give political thanks
The election is over, Thanksgiving is over. What better time, then, to give thanks about what happened, and what didn’t, in the 2021 federal general election? And, yes, sure: Justin Trudeau isn’t now in a job for which he is suited, like cleaning leaves out of gutters. He’s still prime
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Kudos to David Card and the minimum wage
Good news from the world of the dismal science. A Canadian boy, David Card, has won a share of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics. Nice to see one of our own win the big prize, and particularly nice when one considers why he won it. Pioneering research by Card
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Organizing for prison abolition and racial justice on the Canadian Prairies
Stony Mountain Institution, a federal prison located about 25 kilometres north of Winnipeg. Indigenous men make up 65 percent of the inmate population. Photo courtesy Winnipeg Love Hate. The Canadian Prairies remain a sprawling example of disproportionate incarceration rates and profoundly troubling conditions for inmates—made only worse by the COVID-19
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: It’s "Adapt or Die." What we’ll pay for ignoring climate adaptation.
I wonder if, in decades to come, we’ll see the Covid pandemic as a crisis that kept us from responding to the climate emergency. It’s clear now that, when it comes to disasters, we’re shit at multi-tasking. One at a time if you don’t mind. Fighting climate change will
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Meme For The Times
This particular meme has been around for awhile now. If you haven’t seen it, I think you will agree that it is particularly germane to the times in which we live. And this seems an appropriate accompaniment to the above: H/t Graeme MacKay Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: He’s Back. Well, That Was Quick.
William Shatner has successfully traveled from Earth to the edge of space and back in about the same time he takes for his morning bathroom break. At 90 he goes into the books as the oldest astronaut – by a pretty big margin.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Fickling responds to the attempt by petropoliticians to blame high gas prices on limited climate action rather than the vagaries of commodity economics. Lisa Friedman reports on the agreement among 30 countries to slash methane emissions as a crucial short-term step in
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: The Hammer Falls. China Retreats on Climate Change.
Less than 3 weeks from the opening of the Cop26 Glasgow climate summit, China has reversed course. China plans to build more coal-fired power plants and has hinted that it will rethink its timetable to slash emissions, in a significant blow to the UK’s ambitions for securing a global agreement
Continue readingHalf an Hour: A Canadian DARPA?
This post responds to Alex Usher’s article Non-existent Preconditions for DARPA Success, which looks at a promise to implement a Canadian DARPA, and offers reasons why the conditions for success of a DARPA don’t exist in Canada. The first thing to point out is that Canada already has organizations
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Credibility Revolution
This week, the Nobel Prize was awarded to three economists, one of whom — David Card — is a Canadian. All three economists are part of what Paul Krugman calls the Credibility Revolution — which has changed the way the profession uses data. What is the Credibility Revolution all about?
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