The Murderous Cowardice of Erin O’Toole
When Erin O'Toole first became Con leader he vowed to bring down the Trudeau government as soon as he could. But soon he stopped talking about an election, when one…
August 2021
Death on Two Wheels, It’s Sturgis Again
The Covid pandemic was responsible for last year’s Sturgis motorcycle rally slump as just 460,000 bikers showed up. This year has seen a rebound in the 700,000 range. Christina Steele,…
Major IPCC Report Tomorrow
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its latest major report tomorrow in the runup to the November, COP-26 climate summit in Glasgow. It’s the first major assessment since…
Canada’s progressive tilt—mitigating first-past-the-post
From 2006 to 2015 we endured a decade of Conservative rule even though the Conservatives never won the support of even 40 percent of Canadian voters. Such are the idiosyncrasies…
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Wings For a World On Fire
The prime minister is predictably crossing the country, pressing the flesh, and leaving a trail of billions of dollars in pre-election goodies. Nothing remotely unusual there. What is unusual is…
Violating The Preppy Code
Tucker Carson is a child of privilege. So is Lisa Birnbach. In The Washington Post, she calls him out: Oh, Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson. I feel I know you. I…
My latest: dear unvaccinated idiots
Dear Unvaccinated People: I’d love to say it’s nothing personal, but it is. It’s really, really personal. The fact that you refuse to get vaccinated, I mean. I’m sick of…
When Daylight Comes.
It will be like having another Christmas. We’re gonna have an election, we’re gonna have an election. Thinking about this opportunity for Canadians, I was musing the other day about…
My Enemy’s Face
There’s an understated malevolence to these guys. They say the right things. They know what dangers loom. Then they lapse into cognitive dissonance. Alok Sharma could be their poster boy.…
Calgary Municipal Election Candidates are ignoring the Elephant in the room
If you listen to Jyoti Gondek, Jeromy Farkas or Jeff Davison, you will hear a similar story. In fact, if you listen to most of the mayoral or council candidates,…
.No more optimism
Wonderful news. Canada is going to build a fleet of armed drones for “pin-point” bombing. Yeah. Whoopee.These sound very much like the American fleets of armed drones that have been…
TERFy Arguments On Twitter
Today turned out to be “Day of the TERFs” on Twitter for me. I realize that for all that TERFs and GCs like to think of themselves as “clever” and…
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Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Holly Yan examines the growing medical recognition that children need to be protected from COVID-19 (and particularly the Delta variant). David Holtgrave et…
Matching donations: all the dollars, twice the relevance
August is here and I’ve started pedalling toward my goal of 2150km to raise money for the Sick Kids Foundation as part of their Great Cycle Challenge to fight Kids’…
Matching donations: all the dollars, twice the relevance
August is here and I’ve started pedalling toward my goal of 2150km to raise money for the Sick Kids Foundation as part of their Great Cycle Challenge to fight Kids’…
Saturday Photo: Middens on Vancouver Island
The New Yorker had an interesting read this week about ways to save us from rising sea levels. The basic idea is the encouragement of artificial reefs that would be…
The Last Empire
It is the illusion of powerlessness among the people which upholds every empire – for a time. But the illusion eventually wears off. No empire lasts forever. Every empire falls…