Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Smriti Mallapaty reports on new research suggesting that vaccines provide only partial protection against the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19. Sarath…
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Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Surfaced cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nazeem Muhajarine and Kathryn Green call out Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government for causing readily-preventable suffering and death – both from COVID-19…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Paul Nuki, Jennifer Rigby and Anne Gulland write about the refusal to acknowledge the airborne spread of COVID-19 which led to a continuing…
In Decline, a Few Thoughts
Western civilization is in decline and it still has a long way to go. We had better get used to it. That’s according to author, newspaper editor and professor, Andrew…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Canadian Press reports on the overwhelming public support for vaccine mandates and other public health rules – as well as the…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board discusses the need to consider whether to lift public health measures with care rather than stubborn anti-social…
Monbiot – We’re Doing Too Much of Everything.
In his 2004 book, “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,” anthropologist Jared Diamond writes that when societies collapse it happens rapidly and just when that society has reached…
Those Who Would Fly Too Close to the Sun
We had it all figured out. We were going to wring out every last penny of profit. Then it bit us in the butt. Globalization, the neoliberal trade regime our…
Musical interlude
CHVRCHES & Robert Smith – How Not to Drown
We Wuz Robbed
The real losers in the federal election were the people of Canada. The Tyee takes a look at how the election would have turned out if, instead of the rigged…
Rich America’s Day of Reckoning
There’s something about waterfront property. The allure of living at the water’s edge is powerful and it has been reflected in sky-high property prices. That may be about to change.…
Need a Laugh?
I got a chuckle from a Guardian article about the woes besetting the people of Rome. It comes down to garbage (uncollected), crowds (late night revellers), congestion and crime. Nothing…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Anand Giridharadas writes about the dangers of letting political discussions become primarily a matter of process and personalities, rather than the real impact…
Are Emission Cuts a Ruse?
Is it all just a sham? Are these endless targets, solemn promises invariably honoured in the breach, really a means to steer the climate crisis narrative? Have we been had?…
It’s Depressing. I Get It.
The clans are on the move. They’re heading for Glasgow. Brace yourselves. You’re about to be COPped. Ordinarily I’d be posting a lot about the upcoming COP26 climate summit that…
Thursday Morning Truth and Reconciliation Day Links
A few links and reports for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. – Rose Lemay writes that reconciliation requires systemic change at the level of individual assumptions and awareness.…
America’s Vanishing Ladder
Some Americans still boast of their country as the “land of opportunity.” The place where anyone with guts and a bit of willpower can make it, where prosperity can be…
The difficult journey upstream
One of the signature messages of Ryan Meili’s work in activism and politics has been the concept of upstream thinking – described in extremely brief form here: To imagine a…
The "Free Alberta Strategy"
I'll forgive people elsewhere in Canada who might be wondering what the hell is going on in Alberta. A little over a year ago, we were treated to the spectacle…