Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Grant Robertson exposes how the Cons and Libs alike destroyed Canada’s pandemic warning and response system just when we could least afford…
July 2020
A Revolution In Green Homes: Systems Thinking Required
Or, Revolutionizing The Leading Edge Think outside the box – outside ALL boxes, including the club we’re in. This short video presentation (below) is the best summary I…
Krugman – America’s "Cult of Selfishness"
Paul Krugman writes that irresponsible behaviour is killing America. He says Trump and Congressional Republicans fostered an attitude among many Americans, a sense of entitlement, that has and will continue…
Remembering the US invasion of Haiti—105 years later
US troops oversee a marching band within the Haitian Gendarmerie. Image taken from Monograph of Haiti, assembled by United States Marines during the US occupation of that country, 1915-1934. Courtesy…
Juet’s Journal in Word format
For those readers interested in the voyages of the late-16th-early-17th century adventurer, Henry Hudson, or in the European explorations of North America, I have recently scanned and edited a copy…
Another Chapter in "The Great Die-Off"
It’s not an auspicious time for life on Earth, especially for non-human species. Human overpopulation and over-consumption has non-human species dying off at apocalyptic rates. And “the band played on”…
Even Trump’s "Lender of Last Resort" Won’t Touch the Tar Sands
Deutsche Bank has gained a reputation for channeling sketchy money to dodgy borrowers. When DB turns its nose up at you, you have a real problem, probably more than one.…
Journalists are suckers
Here’s a mashup that the amazing @JohnnyHeatWave made to go along with my @mmfa article. It’s depressing. pic.twitter.com/ObiRMSsocE — Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) July 27, 2020
Scoring On His Own Goal
Justin Trudeau has a talent for shooting himself in the foot. Back in 2017, the two people who are at the centre of Trudeau’s problems now were also front and…
Talking the Growing WE Scandal with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison & Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the latest on the WE Scandal,…
The Day After: Arctic
The Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories, Canada’s largest watershed, and the tenth largest water basin in the world. The river runs 4,200 kilometers from the Columbia Icefield in the…
Maybe we have the economic answer.
Not being an economist, I got into some heavy sledding this last week trying to find out more about modern monetary theory (MMT). The fascination was in seeing how this…
Canada, keep your eye on Alberta — it’s not going to be pretty, but it should be instructive
You can just tell it’s likely to be a crazy week in Alberta politics. To understand just how crazy, you have to think about what the Kenney Government is noisily…
Episode 58: Alberta Politics Summer Q&A
You sent us your questions and we answered! In this edition of the annual Alberta politics Q&A episode, Daveberta Podcast host Dave Cournoyer and producer Adam Rozenhart dive into the…
Talking the WE Scandal on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed the latest in the WE Scandal, should…
Has Justin Trudeau Lost The Wind In His Sails?
As a sailor, I know that you can have the fastest boat, and the best crew, but if the wind quits on you, you can still lose.Which makes me wonder…
Conservative Leadership Candidates and the Monarchy: Peter Mackay & Derek Sloan
This should be the final post of this series looking the Conservative leadership race. I never did get a response from Peter Mackay or Derek Sloan. However, the Monarchist League…
On a Radical Vision of Future Earth
I grabbed this book, by meteorologist Eric Holthaus, as soon as it went on sale, excited to check out the new vision of how we can all better live together.…
"Festung Trump" Gets a New Wall
What must Donald Trump see in his future that, with the elections just 100 days off, he’s chosen to fortify Festung Trump with a brand new wall? What’s next, a…
The String Pullers
Carole Callwadr’s essay in The Observer on the weekend rekindled the unpleasant idea that the peoples of Magna Carta are losing ground in the struggle to defend liberal democracy. In…