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Dave Borlace opened a YouTube channel in 2018 to review the science behind climate debates and discover what is being done to avoid catastrophe. In the first minute of his…
2021
Review of David Lewis’s Memoir, "The Good Fight".
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5774639-the-good-fight" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="The Good Fight: Political Memoirs, 1909 1958" src="https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc...
Review of David Lewis’s Memoir, "The Good Fight".
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5774639-the-good-fight" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="The Good Fight: Political Memoirs, 1909 1958" src="https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc...
Review of David Lewis’s Memoir, "The Good Fight".
<a href=”https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5774639-the-good-fight” style=”float: left; padding-right: 20px”><img border=”0″ alt=”The Good Fight: Political Memoirs, 1909 1958″ src=”https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111×148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png” /></a><a href=”https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5774639-the-good-fight”>The Good Fight: Political Memoirs, 1909 1958</a> by <a href=”https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8554737.David_Lewis”>David Lewis</a><br/><br /><br /> <br/><br/><a…
Justin Trudeau And Team Canada’s Great Vaccine Offensive
It wasn't easy to secure enough vaccines for Canadians in the early days of the pandemic. A person I know who had a front row seat described it as something…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Fahad Razak, David Naylor and Arthur Slutsky discuss how it’s not too late to pull our health care system back from the brink…
Ineptitude Writ Large
H/t Patrick Corrigan Sometimes I feel embarrassed to be living in a province as benighted as Ontario. But then I realize that it is neither me nor my fellow citizens…
See, they are crazy. Tory MP Equates Covid Lockdowns with WWII Internment Camps.
And the Nutjob du Jour award goes to some dude named David Sweet, Conservative member of parliament for the riding of Flambo-Clusterf**k. The Tory shadow minister for international rights and…
And the winner is … who cares?
The Academy Awards – Oscar to his friends – airs this Sunday. Are you excited? No? OK, mildly interested? No, not even that? Indifferent or openly hostile? Yeah, that sounds…
NYT – Covid Too Critical to Be Left to the Private Sector
Back to the future. Move over, Big Pharma. It’s time for governments to take the reins in times of catstrophe. Today’s New York Times editorial urges a greater role for…
Oh Dear. Biden’s Done It. Erdogan Will Be Livid.
President Joe Biden has recognized the 1915 Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Turks. Today, April 24, is the anniversary of the atrocity. While other nations have recognized the…
Bitter Sweet
Times of crisis, like we are living in right now, can bring out the best in people. We see that everyday with front line workers in the health sector, who…
Well, at least it’s sunny
The connector to the coil on my ‘74 Super Beetle comes loose when the engine starts. The engine won’t start when the connector isn’t connected. This is a metaphor for…
Saturday Photo: More Whimsy
Last summer some kids near Parc Molson spent some happy time making a little scene in front of a tree in the strip of greenery between the sidewalk and the…
what i’m reading: the sword and the shield: the revolutionary lives of malcolm x and martin luther king jr.
When I read a review of The Sword and The Shield: the Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., I knew it was a book I’d been…
Not His Thing
This week Doug Ford said he was sorry. And he cried. Bruce Arthur writes: The premier is in self-isolation after exposure to a positive COVID case, and broke down talking…
Ghosts of Pandemics.
It had been another hard day for Ontario premier Doug Ford and he drove his truck to his late mother’s house. The doctor had told him to self-isolate because one…
Small donors, potential election volunteers, flock to Alberta NDP as disillusionment with Jason Kenney grows
Alberta’s New Democratic Party raised twice as much as the ruling United Conservative Party in the first quarter of 2021. And we’re not just talking about chicken feed here, people.…
Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson’s first novel, published in 2000, tops 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, April 18, 2021. The lists are compiled…
The China dilemma—global warming or human rights?
If anything scares China’s formidable president, Xi Jinping, it’s probably democracy. The idea of the Chinese people choosing their own president must be nightmarish to the new emperor. His current…