Looking At Ourselves In The Mirror
If you have access to the New York Times, there is a piece well-worth reading by Michael Benson. Entitled Watching Earth Burn. it includes photos of our planet taken from…
December 2020
When the Going Gets Tough, the Brits "Di Di Mau"
Every time someone tells you how we’re all in this together think Verebier, a ski resort town in Switzerland. There were some 420 Brits holidaying in Verbier when the virulent…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Adam Finn writes about the factors which have allowed for the rapid development of safe COVID-19 vaccines. – Helen Tang discusses the stress…
Leo Panitch and the socialist project
Leo Panitch (1945-2020), Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto. Photo courtesy of LeftEast. The death of Leo Panitch has made the world a darker place. His writings have carried…
The Perils Of Dogmatism
We live in dogmatic times. Judy Johnson defines dogmatism as “a trait that drives people to adopt polarized, hardened belief systems, dogmatism manifests in conspiracies theories, gross inequalities of wealth…
Mind the Gap #nlpoli
There is no shortage of gaps in politics in Newfoundland and Labrador. Regular readers will be familiar with the Credibility Gap. That’s the space between what a politician says and…
Mind the Gap #nlpoli
There is no shortage of gaps in politics in Newfoundland and Labrador. Regular readers will be familiar with the Credibility Gap. That’s the space between what a politicians says and…
Monumental arbutus another reason to appreciate the Six Mountains
Ask North Cowichan residents to name their favourite tree, and arbutus would be right up there. The Six Mountains are blessed with an abundance of them and I believe we…
January 27: Do we have the brains – or courage – to face reality and to change it?
I hesitate to write this. I’m sorry I wrote it. I’m sorry I had to write it. We have one hell of a change to face and, well, we humans…
Liberals Called Out Over Year of Planning Blindly-COVID Soaring in Conservative Led Provinces
Originally published by the National Post Matthew Lau is a conservative writer based in Toronto. His interests are in economic principles and fiscal issues, and he has written for the…
Review: Reading Across Borders
A lot of Serious People who do Serious Things when it comes to knowledge tend to treat stories and other kinds of experience-based narratives as inherently suspect and not terribly…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Owen Jones writes that the oft-repeated message that the public is responsible for the control (or spread) of COVID-19 serves mostly to…
A year of loss
A photo of Florida residents Jim and Elaine Minichino, a place set for their 32-year-old son Adam, killed by the virus. From the cover of today’s New York Times Magazine.…
Let’s Give Him A Classy Sendoff
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All Kinds Of Lessons
Commentators are beginning to turn their attention to Donald Trump’s legacy. Simon Tidall’s column in The Guardian is a good place to start. He writes: How much damage did Donald…
Use the war room to educate Albertans?
In December 2019, the Alberta government launched the Canadian Energy Centre. The new UCP government had fulfilled its election promise of an energy “war room” that would “fight fake news…
Ten Climate Change Items That Need Wider Reporting
Out of the frying pan, into the fire. A vaccine is here, hooray! But now let’s actually take a good hard look at climate change mitigation. This is from a…