Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Gloria Dickie documents how the Arctic region may already be in a death spiral caused by climate change. Katharine Murphy reports on…
2020
#skdebate Notes
For those who weren’t able to watch Saskatchewan’s leadership debate last night, it’s well worth a look: Many viewers seem to have been surprised by Ryan Meili’s effectiveness. And he…
The Government You Buy
Doug Ford says he can’t be bought. But his behaviour suggests otherwise. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Ahead of the last election, after a series of investigative columns in this newspaper…
Math is hard, but not so hard you can’t spot the holes in Tyler Shandro’s cost-saving shell game
Math, apparently, remains hard. Except, perhaps, calculus of a political sort. The real Mr. Shandro (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). On its face, Health Minister Tyler Shandro’s claim that firing 11,000 low-paid…
Leaked government pandemic plan? Terrifying if true…
Regular readers of this pathetic and miserable little blog, (yes all three of you) know that I like to keep it between the lines so to speak. I like to…
Meanwhile in Germany
The Berlin tourist authority has launched an ad campaign targeting people who don’t wear masks. I guess you don’t have to sprechen Deutsch to get the point.
Why America’s economic war on China is failing
President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, speaks during the 7th BRICS Summit in the Russian city of Ufa, July 9, 2015. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. US President…
Candidates Forum | 2020 Provincial Election | Duncan Cowichan Chamber of Commerce
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"Rage" The Shortest and Best Chapter
Rage, Bob Woodward’s latest book on Donald Trump and his administration is a pretty good read. The least interesting bits are his conversations with the hopefully outgoing president. There’s a…
Covid Journal, October 14, 2020
Initial trials for a Covid-19 vaccine aren’t going so well.
OPCW Scandal Reveals Deep Systemic Corruption of Western Elite, the Mainstream & Alternative Media, & the Centre, the Right & the Left
Here is a devastating critique of the mainstream, major media, the “alternative” or “progressive” media, the liberal “centrists” and the left. See my essays on the media and the left,…
"The Arctic is Dying"
This photograph is the wall of Batagaika Crater in Siberia. It’s the biggest permafrost crater in the world and it’s still growing. All the once safely sequestered carbon is being…
Talking the Provinces Response to COVID-19 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 Bob Richardson. We discussed the state of the different provinces responses…
Wednesday #skvotes Links
Saskatchewan’s election day is rapidly approaching (and indeed voting is already underway). And with plenty of content being generated, I’ll plan to offer some link posts dedicated to news of…
On diverging paths
Tonight’s Saskatchewan leadership debate will include plenty of back-and-forth as to whether we should vote for a better government, or settle for staying the course. And in answering that question,…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – John Michael McGrath warns that the second wave of the coronavirus is once again moving much faster than the governments charged with controlling…
An inconvenient coup: Canada’s disingenuous response to Mali’s revolt against a corrupt government
A security officer stands guard during a visit of the Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), Joanne Adamson, to Bandiagara, Mopti region,…
Reconciliation Failing in Nova Scotia: WTF?!?!?!
It was just a few weeks ago on this site that I wrote about what has been happening in Nova Scotia regarding threats being leveled at Mi’kmaw fishers who are…
Second Place
COVID numbers are rising sharply in Ontario. Which raises the question, “Who is directing the province’s response to the pandemic?” Bruce Arthur writes: As the pandemic has progressed in Ontario,…
They’re giving away seats in parliament?
Conservative Hugh Segal should know better. Liberal Greg Sorbara likely never knew better. And I have no idea who the NDP’s Zanana Akande might be. It was just that the…