Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sara Reardon discusses new research showing that vaccination has only a limited effect on the prevalance of long COVID among people who…
May 2022
Gun Control – A Not So Modest Proposal
This post will no doubt annoy firearms aficionados – I don’t much care. In the last 2 weeks, the United States has experienced 2 mass shooting events that resulted in…
In Gun We Trust
H/t Moudakis Just a brief post. As a parent of two and a grandfather of one (our granddaughter was born last August), I do not have the stomach, the heart…
Canadian mining and the tragedy in Burkina Faso
After the deaths of eight miners at Burkina Faso’s Perkoa zinc mine, owned by the Vancouver-based Trevali Mining Corporation, watchdogs have accused Canadian mining firms of acting with impunity abroad.…
If you want a new, progressive government at Queen’s Park, vote for the Ontario Liberals
It’s pretty simple. After four years of government at Queen’s Park that ranged from chaotic and crazy to barely adequate, I want Doug Ford’s Conservatives out. A little bit of…
Are Universities and Colleges Failing Society?
A campus tour of a college will reveal to most people that our post-secondary institutions are poorly equipped with the tools needed to train our kids how to save society.…
Insanity, Pure And Simple
A week after a kid walked into a Buffalo supermarket and killed 10 people, another kid in Uvalde, Texas walked into an elementary school and killed 21 people, 19 of…
Kelp Could be the Carbon Capture King
The simple kelp plant could help us suck carbon out of the air in large quantities, and if so then we need more kelp – and fast! Kelp is a…
Legault’s Gestapo.
History has a slower pace in Canada’s Quebec Province. Old wounds are often rubbed raw as the shibboleths of long ago, such as Duplessis’ Padlock Law, are repeatedly turned against…
Today’s News: This #ProLifeMyAss hashtag is brutal
Twitter is having a moment today. hashtag of 2022: #ProLifeMyAss — Amy Siskind ?️? (@Amy_Siskind) May 25, 2022 Paul Gosar: Uvalde shooter was “transsexual leftist illegal alien” Ted Cruz: gun…
Kenney Government’s persistent habit of advocating U.S.-style gun laws bears repeating, and remembering
On May 17, just three days after the racial-hate-motivated massacre at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y., the Kenney Government was publicly complaining about new federal regulations intended to ensure…
Can Proportional Representation Save Our Parliamentary Democracy
Parliament – Etymology The English term is derived from Anglo-Norman and dates to the 14th century, coming from the 11th century Old French parlement, “discussion, discourse”, from parler, meaning “to…
Ouch
When in government Steven Del Duca had tried to pull a fast one on the Members of LiUNA, burying a draconian piece of legislation in the budget to strip our…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Aekkachai Tuekprakhon et al. study how the Omicron COVID-19 subvariants are evading both previous immunity and existing treatments. And Zak Vescera reports on…
Marsh marigold moment
New one. Marsh marigolds. May tweak it. pic.twitter.com/h9jQqF7cdu — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 25, 2022
To address the incarceration of Indigenous women, dismantle the system
If we want to address the incarceration of Indigenous peoples, we need to imagine a world beyond policing and prisons, writes Abby Stadnyk. Image from iStock. In December 2021, Canada’s…
Global Capitalism Has Become Dependent on War-Making to Sustain Itself [William Robinson, Truthout]
The Pentagon, as seen from an airplane over Washington, D.C., on February 19, 2020.Xinhua / Liu Jie via Getty Images By William I. Robinson, Originally published on Truthout April 24,…
Saunderson’s Your Guy
With the provincial election only a few days away, I thought I should remind you why you might want to vote for Collingwood’s much-disliked, hypocritical, bullying, and inept mayor, Brian…
Huawei ban undermines Canadian and world security
Last week, the Government of Canada announced it will ban two of China’s biggest telecoms equipment makers from working on its 5G phone networks. University of Victoria professor John Price…
The Hits Keep Coming
Yesterday, a man picked up a gun and killed 18 students in an elementary school in Texas. This morning a candidate for the leadership of the CPC promised to burn…