When we went to the BART station to pick up our friend D yesterday, there was an unexpected surprise: a market! It was the Berkeley International Flea Market. A vendor…
Start at about the 55 second-mark for an uncomfortable look in the mirror. We should all feel a shudder of recognition and realize our collective responsibility is hardly limited to…
Drs. Banting and Best must be rolling in their graves. Linda McQuaig writes: In the 1920s, Canada became world-renowned for discovering insulin and providing it at very low cost to…
In the fight against climate change, what we are on the hunt for are safe energy solutions. And of all the options, nuclear is the safest, writes Leigh Phillips. Photo…
Federal conservative leader Erin O’Toole is starting to puzzle Canadians. Here is a guy with a fairly straight forward reputation as a bland, do-nothing conservative. Okay, he might even be…
Another poll by a respectable pollster suggests that if an Alberta provincial election were held today Rachel Notley’s New Democratic Party would triumph handily over Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party.…
Purchasing carbon offsets is a popular way to act against global warming, or at least to alleviate one’s conscience. An offset allows a business, government or individual to pay someone…
Labour MP, Ed Miliband, writes that climate delay, not climate denial, has become our biggest enemy. Nothing, he warns, is more dangerous than the “illusion of action.” Future generations will…
Yesterday, after we dropped the pups at daycare, Allan and I took the BART into the city, but got off at separate stops. Allan was meeting a blog-friend (someone we…
H/t Patrick Corrigan The is such a wealth of good letters to the editor today that I had a hard time choosing what to reproduce. They have one thing in…
The following reflection piece reflects the views of the signers and has not been endorsed by the Institute for Social Ecology as an organization. We are a group of leftist…
The bees are out, thank goodness. In this time of so many things not going right, it’s a pleasure to see them at work in the ‘hood. It helps that…
It’s sad but also true that, in the United States, getting or not getting vaccinated has become a political statement. Paul Krugman writes: As Aaron Carroll pointed out Tuesday in…
In his famous work, Essays, Michel de Montaigne, channelling the Epicureans, wrote that, “All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim. (Book I: On the…
Ontario residents must have this image of the Ontario premier skipping along the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway (Highway 401) throwing loonies and toonies left and right. That is his answer to every…
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, July 25, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Guess who, as I write this, is the leading country in gold medals at the Olympics. No. It’s not the U.S. The U.S. is in third for gold medals. But…
Glass Animals – It’s All So Incredibly Loud
Logic and evidence-bound critical thinkers find it hard, even pointless, to converse with conspiracy theorists even those within their own families. Andrew Coyne writes there’s nothing you can say to…
Overshoot. Think of it as the canary in the mine safeguarding human civilization. Overshoot Day is the day each year by which mankind has exhausted an entire year’s supply of…
