I love this painting called Couch on the Porch, Cos Cob, by Childe Hassam. Painted in 1914, it captures the feeling of summery days, pre-airconditioning. Would love to have your…
Veteran cold warrior, Henry Kissinger, looks to China and sees storm clouds on the horizon. The U.S. and China are entering a cold war, says Hank, but it won’t be…
Pandemic, check. Climate change, check. Infrastructure, check. Tax reform, check. For most of the Liberal government’s time in office they’ve had something of a free ride. Trump set the bar…
To get to Net Zero, Andrew Nikiforuk writes, we have to tightly control our borders — something we have not done: On CBC’s The Current, Kelley Lee, Canada Research Chair…
Listening to American President Joe Biden address his nation the other night was a rare delight. Here was a politician at the apex of his career. He was entitled to…
15 years ago right now, I was arriving in Yorkville in Toronto to open the doors of the Daisy Group for the very first time. I hadn’t slept all night.…
It’s been obvious since last Summer that indoor transmission is a risk because the virus is airborne. Would you go into a room with someone who has measles or TB?…
Happy May Day! Today is the International Day of the Worker. Normally there would be big parades in the capitals of Europe, a few smaller ones in North America and…
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, April 25, 2021. The lists are compiled…
April 30 2021 The encampment in Strathcona Park has come to a close with the vast majority of people who had been sleeping overnight in the park having moved into…
I understand why people gaining direct financial rewards support the Peace River megaproject. But it is harder to explain why rational and, we hope, honest cabinet ministers stay attached to…
Who says rock ‘n’ roll and pop music can’t improve the political consciousness? In my final year of journalism the Carleton, and in my first year of law school in…
Filo & Peri feat. Audrey Gallagher – This Night (Max Graham Remix)
Our government’s failure to source Covid vaccines may leave Canadians in for a grim surprise. Most Canadians who have been vaccinated are told they’ll have to wait for four months…
That it took more than a year into a once-in-a-generation public health crisis for an NDP government to introduce such a basic provision as provincial sick pay is beyond disappointing.…
I’m back – turned out my keyboard had somehow disconnected itself from my laptop operating system and they needed to find each other again. Sorta like this: The great escape…
Much has been broken over the last months, and since the upgrade to a business level account and domains, these blogs have been nothing but a PITA. Nothing has made…
Nobody wanted to know. That might be a fitting epitaph for the human species. They didn’t want to know. This blog used to have almost daily posts on the climate…
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Assorted content to end your week. – Miquel Oliu-Barton, Bary Pradelski, Philippe Aghion, Patrick Artus, Ilona Kickbusch, Jeffrey Lazarus, Devi Sridhar and Samantha Vanderslott examine how strategies aimed at eradicating…
