How Does Canada Atone?
I have a practical suggestion to partly address the title’s question, but I’ll leave it for a future post. Today, some letter-writers from the print edition of the Toronto Star…
July 2021
Wisdom from the East, Clarified: Paradigm shifts, dying ideologies, and real feng shui vs fast food feng shui
E=MCsquared. Energy = mass x the speed of light squared. What does that mean? Among other things, it means this. Einstein showed matter and energy and interconvertible. In fact, both…
Saturday Unphoto: From Bloomberg Green on Wild Fire
By Linda Poon The worst day for human-caused fires in the U.S. is July 4. That’s a particular problem this year, as a historic heat wave and record drought have…
Cheerio, old chap
Mark Carney: jets over to Wimbledon during a pandemic. Tut tut: masks are for the underclass. The post Cheerio, old chap first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
Ignorance Is Strength
Paul Krugman writes that, on the Right, ignorance has become a necessary qualification: On the right, expertise isn’t just considered worthless, it’s viewed as disqualifying. People with actual knowledge of…
Grievances of the Greens.
What can they be thinking? The rank and file of the Green Party of Canada must be outraged. The idea of a dust-up between the executive of the party and…
Priorities
A tweet written by Jeffrey Levin made sense to me. So, I produced a Canadian version.
Something is dragging the federal Conservatives down in Alberta – is it Jason Kenney?
It sure looks as if Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s abysmal performance is not merely threatening the survival of his United Conservative Party Government, but is dragging down the federal Conservatives…
Sing, Unburied, Sing by American author Jesmyn Ward tops Alberta independent bookshops’ fiction bestseller list
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, June 27, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Hell-Fire
Dakota Smith, a meteorologist at Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, said in a tweet that he observed “absolutely mind-blowing wildfire behavior in British Columbia.” He included satellite…
Hell-Fire
Dakota Smith, a meteorologist at Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, said in a tweet that he observed “absolutely mind-blowing wildfire behavior in British Columbia.” He included satellite…
Hell-Fire
Dakota Smith, a meteorologist at Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, said in a tweet that he observed “absolutely mind-blowing wildfire behavior in British Columbia.” He included satellite…
Here’s some stuff to cheer about!
Well, it doesn’t look like we’re going to be able to celebrate the Habs winning the Cup, so here’s some stuff we CAN enjoy! First, some very good boys: This…
Musical interlude
Marshmello feat. CHVRCHES – Here With Me
On the Legacy of Sir John A. Macdonald
The discovery of 215 bodies in Kamloops is a gruesome reminder that maybe “genocide” is an appropriate term to use for Canada’s assimilationist policies after all. And this may just…
On the Legacy of Sir John A. Macdonald
The discovery of 215 bodies in Kamloops is a gruesome reminder that maybe “genocide” is an appropriate term to use for Canada’s assimilationist policies after all. And this may just…
On the Legacy of Sir John A. Macdonald
The discovery of 215 bodies in Kamloops is a gruesome reminder that maybe “genocide” is an appropriate term to use for Canada’s assimilationist policies after all. And this may just…
Supporting Indigenous tenants in non-profit housing
Horizon Housing (in Calgary) recently had me write a report on how to improve housing outcomes for its Indigenous tenants (i.e., tenants who are First Nation, Métis or Inuit). Here’s…
It’s Time to Tell Rex Murphy to Crawl Back Under His Rock
Among the ranks of Canada’s climate change deniers, Rex Murphy is in the vanguard. In January, Murphy and a couple of his favourite rightwing brothers hosted a webinar. Their message:…
This Isn’t a Heatwave — It’s a Dying Planet
Our Civilisation is Boiling Alive in the Fumes of its Own Waste umair haque Follow Jun 30 · 7 min read Image Credit: ABC11 Screenshot It was my lovely…