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 4, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Joywave – The Inversion
UC Berkeley scholar Karen Trapenberg Frick wrote of the 25 years it took for Californians to build a Bay bridge replacement. Dr. Frick said the project was “a cautionary tale…
California Dreaming’ – once was. I used to love riding the Pacific Coast Highway through northern California and the giant redwoods to the vineyards and wineries of the Napa Valley,…
When then defense secretary, Colin Powell, warned George w. Bush that invading Iraq carried the Pottery Barn rule of “you break it, you own it” the neocons dismissed it. It’s…
Assorted content to end your week. – Max Fawcett highlights why it’s foolish to throw out the protection face masks have provided both against a continuing pandemic, and other infectious…
Summer Reading Club is back, and it’s not just for kids. Children, teens, and adults can all find fun reading challenges – and prizes – at your library. Even infants…
I began to write this post on the anniversary of my prostate surgery, July 8. Anniversaries are a time to reflect on the past and look to the future, even…
The Green Party is consuming itself. Recent developments are not encouraging. Susan Delacourt writes: Green Party Leader Annamie Paul is facing a vote of confidence in two weeks, on July…
There is little reason to ever respect Ontario premier Doug Ford. It is not just that the man is untrained and unfit to be premier. It is the nature of…
Premier Jason Kenney’s cabinet shuffle yesterday had very little to do with supporting Alberta’s economic recovery and renewal, despite what the government would have you believe. This is not to…
Oh, for a start, please go back to July 3. I added a larger piece to it – but did so after it was posted. The result is that nobody…
We are all tribal. We don’t have a choice. We are designed that way. Our architects—our genes—design us to be biased toward fellow members of our tribe as opposed to…
That’s what Alberta’s nurses are calling the move by Jason Kenney’s UCP to roll back their wages by 3%. In Kenneyland, contracts apparently are notional, not legal, documents. In 2020,…
Cambridge University sent an email this morning inviting me to register for a 6-week course on the circular economy. I’m not interested in parting with $2,000 (USD) so I passed.…
I know. The news is grim and it’s coming fast and furious. It’s hard to take. It can overwhelm, generating feelings of helplessness. I’ve been something of a Cassandra for…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Peter Beaumont reports on the World Health Organization’s warning that the premature lifting of COVID-19 restrictions does nothing but put people at…
A study finds that, by 2080, eight billion people could be at risk of contracting malaria and dengue fever. The study, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical…
There’s a new kid on the block. It’s the Lambda variant of Covid-19 and it has reached Canada. This newcomer is visiting from South America, Peru perhaps. The bad news…
A lot of Canadians believe the nonsense that Canada is a leader in the fight against climate change. Sadly, a lot more of us no longer care. Regardless, these claims…
