September 2020
The Great Human Petri Dish
How did it come to this? How did humanity become so homogenized? In his new book, “Commanding Hope,” director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads, Victoria, Thomas Homer-Dixon looks…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nicole Mortillaro notes that the reduction in pollution due to COVID-19-related shutdowns isn’t keeping 2020 from being either the hottest or second-hottest…
The Appearance of Justice
It is axiomatic that, in a liberal democracy, justice must be free from bias. Every human is a breathing bag of biases but those that judge us are bound to…
It’s *NOT* Junk Mail
I recognize that we all like to apply labels to categorize things, as shorthand in communication and in conversation, and to identify common views and beliefs. I do it myself;…
It’s In the Pipeline
Robin Sears writes that universal childcare has been on Canadians’ radar for a long time: Childcare in Canada has a long and twisting history — from pre-Confederation days when informal…
What if we had switched the speeches?
Justin Trudeau short changed us. It was so obvious. The speech read by the governor general should have been for the United Nations. It was dull and obvious but better…
international safe abortion day: abortion is healthcare
September 28 is International Safe Abortion Day, a day to reflect on how many women around the world do not have control over their reproduction — that is, do not…
"Early perpetrators become a scientific and moral elite and form a spiritual engine of biological necessity."
The Psychology of Genocide extracted from Robert J. Lifton book: "The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide." (1988) - more here "The smaller genocide develops the technology…
"Early perpetrators become a scientific and moral elite and form a spiritual engine of biological necessity."
The Psychology of Genocide extracted from Robert J. Lifton book: "The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide." (1988) - more here "The smaller genocide develops the technology…
"Early perpetrators become a scientific and moral elite and form a spiritual engine of biological necessity."
The Psychology of Genocide extracted from Robert J. Lifton book: “The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide.” (1988) – more here “The smaller genocide develops the technology…
Tesla’s future and Alberta’s future are intrinsically – though inversely – tied together
Tesla doesn’t make money building cars. They make a little money on energy generation. However, as Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times pointed out during our COVID summer,…
On Sir John A. MacDonald, Conservatives, Vergangenheitsbewältigung and Working Through Canadian History: the Approach Conservatives should take to Canada’s past
I believe that History matters. History matters because it teaches us how to be better. History provides us with the very best and worst lessons of what people are capable…
Erin O’Toole’s Criminally Irresponsible COVID Bomb
When I first heard that Erin O'Toole had tested positive for COVID-19 I felt sorry for him, or at least as sorry as I could ever feel for the leader…
what i’m reading: love: possibly roddy doyle’s best book
Love, the latest novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, is a miniature tour de force. It’s a story where seemingly nothing happens, nothing that you could really call a plot.…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Charlie Smith talks to Robert Hare about the increasing concentration of corporate control – and deterioration of the public’s capacity to provide a…
Relax. It’s Only a Civilization. They Come, They Go. It’s What Civilizations Do.
I get it. We’re exceptional. In the history of humanity there’s never been anything like us, here, today. We’re all but invincible, masters of all we survey. We tend to…
Get Rid Of The Big Money
Everywhere, it seems, politics is corrupted by big money. That certainly has been the case in Ontario. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Back in 2016, after a series of columns exposing…
California Under the Gun, Again
Triple digit temperatures, high winds and low humidity are returning to California over the weekend and could ignite a second wave of wildfires across the state. Red flag warnings have…
Big Exodus from Big Tech
Time for the exodus to begin in earnest from the now confirmed to be fascist and deeply Orwellian Big Tech giants. At the least, we need to begin the migration…