Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Olha Puhach, Benjamin Meyer and Isabella Eckerle examine what we’ve learned about viral shedding from the COVID pandemic so far, while Bhanvi Satija…
December 2022
Saturday Photo: Sil for Christmas
In recent years I’ve had trouble finding salt herring to make sil, Swedish pickled herring. But this year I hit the jackpot: nice firm, fat herring from Marché Epicure Spent…
My 2016 comedy short film “Tri-Curious” is back on YouTube!
Actors Rob Salerno and Trevor Ketcheson My first short film as a director Tri-Curious is now available for the world to see on YouTube as of December 1, 2022. The…
Ontarians Opine
People are probably getting tired of my monomania regarding the depredations of the Doug Ford government, so this will be my last post on the subject for a while. Indeed,…
Gone Mad
The Globe and Mail editorializes that some of Canada’s premiers have lost their minds: The recent actions of some of Canada’s provincial premiers bring to mind a scene from Woody…
Cutting What Red Tape?
You can always have a laugh when another conservative goes on about their hate for red tape. They are always telling you they are going to cut it. They just…
From the bookmarks – Elon, Matt, Ye, and the gang….
I loved this! Found it on Mastodon, hand-made by @welshpixie@mastodon.art Tonight the world of Twitter waited with bated breath for Musk’s big Hunter Biden reveal. Pffft (a wet sqibb sound)!…
Food supplies threatened by water shortages
With food production threatened in southwest USA, British Columbia should pay more attention to the value and potential of its agricultural resources. The present NDP government is in thrall to…
Jason Kenney, a moderate?
During Jason Kenney’s reign over our province, I never thought of him as a particularly nice man. Actions like de-indexing the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped program from inflation…
Musical interlude
Elderbrook – Beautiful Morning
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Umair Haque discusses why the 2020s are turning into a particularly bleak decade as people are buried under a perpetually larger mountain of…
ASWAUCA – the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act – is turning into a disaster for Danielle Smith and the UCP
With the thoughts that you’ll be thinkin’You could be another Lincolnif you only had a brain.— Scarecrow, The Wizard of Oz OTTAWA Could Danielle Smith have handled introduction of her…
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Legal Tweet of the Day: December 2, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Parti Québécois denied entry to National Assembly after refusing to swear oath to King #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3B5ozUv – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
History of Mask Controversy
The New Journal of Medicine just posted a video of the history of mask wearing. It’s just 12 minutes: Unfortunately, they conclude that masks have always been controversial, so will…
Torkil Lauesen’s Riding the Wave, reviewed by Adam Grey [RevolutionaryCommunist.org]
Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World System, Torkil Lauesen, Kersplebedeb Publishing, 2021, 268pp. Reviewed by Adam Grey. This important book by the Danish anti-imperialist activist Torkil Lauesen…
Bad journalism, military funded academic produces hit job
Screengrab from the November 28 edition of Le Journal de Montréal. Image courtesy PressReader. Le Journal de Montréal recently smeared me as a Russian propagandist. In a story based upon…
Please Pardon My Cliche
But there is only one taxpayer, something Ontario municipalities may need to be reminded of. I say this because I am discerning a possible divide-and-conquer ploy at work by the…
Water contamination at Barrick’s Veladero mine threatens health and human rights
The entrance to Veladero, one of the largest gold mines in Argentina. Photo courtesy the Mendoza Post. Communities in northwestern Argentina have been forced to drink bottled water since 2015…
The Costs Of Climate Change
If you’re looking for a case study into the costs of climate change, consider what happened to British Columbia in 2021. Marc Lee and Ben Parfitt write: When Don and…