Or, On Trolls and Concision, Sound-Bite Culture, and The Importance of Thinking For Yourself (Please see my recent essay, titled, Canada, eh?, for part one of this present meditation)…
It took just eight days for Notre Dame to shut down the campus. Eight days and 146 students infected with Covid-19. “The virus is a formidable foe,” Notre Dame University…
A glimpse at the monster running America. Rolling Stone reports that Trump says he wants not one more term but two. Trump says he was spied on and therefore he…
A little more focus on tech than usual. I’m sick of Covid and I’m disgusted with the powers that be with Ontario’s education system. I’ll comment on all that’s happened…
These past five months have just been so strange in so many ways and the further we go into this pandemic, the harder it is to remember how strange it…
WARNING – I’m leaving this post up, for now. However I tried to confirm this information and, in the process, learned that the source of this story is unreliable and…
I was happy to be able to spend the last few days of my vacation on the Toronto islands, and go swimming for the first time this summer. And although…
I know little about medicine, even less about dermatology, but, being not that many years younger than the Mango Mussolini, I’m sometimes struck when I see close up photos of…
One of the greats of Canadian political punditry, Alan Fotheringham, dead at 87. Anyone remotely sentient who enjoyed Canada in the 70s and 80s will recall “the Foth” or, as…
For the last couple of days most Canadian political observers have had their eyes firmly fixed on the goings on in Ottawa, and rightfully so. It’s been a crazy 48…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Michal Rozworski writes that we need to respond to the coronavirus pandemic with investment in the society we want to build for tomorrow,…
This graphic depiction from The New York Times indicates our worsening predicament. The black bars represent the Earth’s capacity to deliver the resources that sustain humanity. The battery is fully…
This graphic from The Guardian depicts what a world at 4 degrees Celsius (above pre-industrial levels) will mean for humanity. If it looks grim, it is. The red zone, as…
Dr. John Campbell has been the most levelheaded individual providing regular updates on the state of COVID-19 that I’ve been able to find (other than government and academic reports). Since…
A mural depicting Simon Bolivar painted by Carlos Zerpa, 26, of the Guerrilla Communications Collective in Catia, a slum in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo from VenezuelaSolidarity.ca. Justin Trudeau requires an intervention.…
If you want to know what kind of finance minister Chrystia Freeland will be, Tim Harper suggests that you take a look at her book, Plutocrats: The Rise of the…
What are we to make of the peculiar fact that Postmedia reporters still occupy their comfortable chairs in the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery in Ottawa? A quick scroll through the…
Bouncer cats.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/17/death-valley-temperature-rises-to-544c-possibly-the-hottest-ever-reliably-recorded Not to worry. Oil chiefs and their expert premiers – as in Alberta and Ontario – have told us nothing is happening. So there. ____________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/the-plastic-we-use-unthinkingly-every-day-is-killing-our-planet-and-slowly-but-surely-killing-us ————————————————————————————————– …and in…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Paola Frelich writes about the uber-rich whose habit of being strictly isolated from anybody else has allowed for life to continue as…
