Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Bush discusses how the latest wave of COVID-19 would have been entirely avoidable if we hadn’t allowed corporate interests to suppress vaccine…
December 2021
Taylor’s Masterpiece
Taylor Swift first came to my attention in 2008 with the song ‘Love Story‘, an adaptation of the story of Romeo and Juliet from her second album Fearless. What caught…
There’s Your Problem or How Covid Wins.
It’s a Covid Rogues Gallery. Arizona, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, North Dakota and Montana. All of those states have banned or blocked vaccine mandates.…
Is This Our Warning to Change While We Can?
The Atlantic has an article “Climate Change Is Going to Be Gross.” It’s about the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul, and the mysterious appearance of something called “sea snot.” Marmara…
An Army of Damaged Minds
They’ve been around for years. Some of them might be your neighbours, colleagues perhaps even friends. However it took a pandemic to bring many of them out of the closet…
Russell Maroon Shoatz, Rest in Power
It is with great sadness, anger, and bitterness, that i have learned of the passing of Russell Maroon Shoatz. A prisoner of war for most of his life, Maroon came…
Afterlife of the Meng Wanzhou affair
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers opening remarks at a business event with the Chinese Entrepreneur Club in Beijing, August 30, 2016. Photo courtesy the Prime Minister’s Office. Amid the wreckage…
Facts Don’t Matter To These Folks
The stolen election meme keeps roiling through American politics. Jesse Wegman writes: The professional vote-fraud crusaders are not in the fact business. While they pretend to care about real election…
The Flexible Erin O’Toole.
Federal conservative leader Erin O’Toole always has his legal career as a fall-back position. The lawyer who can quickly adjust his standards to suit client needs seems to always be…
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good returns to top of independent bookshops’ Alberta 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, Dec. 12, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Canada will be back … eventually
Way back in 2015, flush with election victory, newly minted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced “Many of you have worried that Canada has lost its compassionate and constructive voice in…
Musical interlude
Flight Facilities feat. Broods – Forever
Pension pain pending
Many people think of Canada as one of the more socially advanced countries of the world. That is only partly true.
Livres Anticoloniales et Antiracistes en français, à leftwingbooks.net
Ici à Kersplebedeb, nous venons de recevoir plusieurs livres excellentes de l’Europe, en français, avec un focus sur les luttes anticoloniales et antiracistes, de la Palestine à la France, de…
A Blast from Both Barrels
I had forgotten all about Alpha. It turns out there are three Covid variants – Alpha, Delta, and Omicron. The bad news is that some people may contract more than…
Better late than never
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the running joke in Saskatchewan politics was that whatever NDP leader Ryan Meili pushed for, Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government could be counted…
The Decade of "Climate Departure"
Several years ago the climate department at the University of Hawaii released a paper warning of a phenomenon they called “climate departure” that would begin to set in during the…
ADVOCACY BIG AND LITTLE: You Can’t Do Caregiving Without It
I have the pleasure of facilitating a free online course called Caregiving Essentials, offered through McMaster University Continuing Education. A companion project is a free monthly webinar series, also called…
Legal Tweet of the Day: December 17, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Miss World 2021 postponed hours before finale amid Covid-19 outbreak #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Kai Kupferschmidt reports on the recognition among scientists around the globe that the Omicron COVID variant is almost certain to precipitate another major…