Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ricardo Duque Gabriel et al. examine how the costs of austerity extend beyond the human toll of diminished well-being to include the undermining…
July 2022
Monbiot Wins Orwell Award for Journalism
Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, has been awarded the George Orwell award for journalism. The prize is awarded for commentary or reporting that comes closest to meeting the ambition of George…
A Shrinking Tent
The fallout from Patrick Brown’s disqualification from the Conservative leadership race continues. Kevin Philipupillai reports in the Hill Times that: Supporters of ousted Conservative leadership candidate Patrick Brown, including new…
Why we need to (re)nationalize Air Canada
Air Canada Airbus A320-211 at the Ottawa International Airport. Photo by Heads Up Aviation/Flickr. It would be tempting to base an argument in favour of nationalizing Air Canada solely off…
Ford Among the Big Kids.
Ontario premier Doug Ford was out west this past week hobnobbing with the big kids. Canada’s provincial premiers and territorial leaders were doing the annual medicine dance to convince Ottawa…
Today’s News: Whose side are these guys on?
The US story of the day is the news that the Trump’s White House Secret Service deleted its text messages from Jan 5 and 6 2021. Accidentally! Yeah, sure… I…
Fossil fuel dangers are even worse than we knew
Researchers from Harvard and three British universities assert that more than eight million people died in 2018 from fossil fuel pollution. The scientists estimate that exposure to particulate matter from…
Danielle Smith takes UCP leadership campaign down a dark, Trumpian road with her conspiracy theory about AHS
The United Conservative Party leadership campaign took a dark Trumpian turn Monday when candidate Danielle Smith got a big cheer from her supporters at a rally in Airdrie for accusing…
Pierre Poilievre and the Hidden Hand of Harper
I’ve been taking some time off to enjoy one of the finest summers I can remember, with one blue sky day after the other. I’ve enjoyed getting out on the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Glenn McConnell reports on New Zealand’s continued leadership in acknowledging and fighting the avoidable spread of COVID-19. Arwa Mahdawi discusses why nobody…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 14, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Convoy organizer Pat King seeks bail after almost four months behind bars #law #legal #LawTwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3Ptp53G – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Peace-minded Canadians deserve a voice in Parliament
A Ukrainian soldier stands near a checkpoint leading to the city of Irpin near Kyiv. Photo by Volodymyr Kutsenko. NDP Foreign Affairs Critic Heather McPherson’s promotion of NATO and opposition…
NATO: the most dangerous military alliance on the planet
“Together We Are Wrong.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the arms industry that depends on it for billions in profits, has become the most…
It’s About Climate Change
If you want to know what the future holds, consider two words — climate change. Glen Pearson writes: With all the unprecedented challenges facing today’s world, nothing compares to the…
Twitter down OMG
Twitter down? How the hell am I supposed to block anti-vaxxers and Covid deniers and Poilievre’s winged monkeys – who are all the same people, by the way – without…
rotd: feminism is an endeavor to change
Revolutionary thought of the day: Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most…
I’m just sittin’ here watching the wheels go round and round
So I saw this tweet tonight: What line from a song really stuck with you? — Eric Alper ? (@ThatEricAlper) July 14, 2022 And of course I immediately got lost…
Local, green and sustainable economies
A problem faced by more than one British Columbia community is how to resurrect a local economy after global corporations decide easier profits can be made by exporting unprocessed resources.…
How’s Your Rogers Deal?
Mother always taught us kids not to gloat when one of our little playmates got in trouble. It is hard not to gloat though when a company such as Rogers…
Fossil fuels are deadlier than Covid
Covid is a bitch. It has killed 6.4 million people worldwide to date and counting. But compared to fossil fuels, it’s a piker. According to research by Harvard and three…