Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Lara Herrero offers a quick guide to what we know about the Delta variant – and how it should change our previous perspective…
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Well … Yesterday Was An Off-Price Day In Alberta Politics
The day started with a bunch of Kenney’s caucus showing up at yet another separatist policy dog-whistle being unveiled: … and it ended with a COVID update presser from Jason…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Interactive cats.
Is That What It Is? The Roots of Malignant Populism.
I am developing a morbid fascination with the spread of malignant populism throughout not just the United States but also many other countries, Canada included. We were once the staid,…
Post Election Calls For Electoral Reform
In the wake of voting for our 44th Parliament, there are numerous calls out there to move Canada to some form of Proportional Representation (PR). I am sympathetic to these…
That Flashing Red Light – Failure to Adapt.
Take it from the Brits – mitigation without adaptation is ruinous. As governments pretend to be behind the effort to slash greenhouse gas emissions, they’re doing next to bugger all…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Danny Westneat discusses Steven Taylor’s work on the psychology of pandemics which has proven prescient as we’ve responded to COVID-19. And Umair…
Choose Yer Poison
Chris Hedges sees two options in America’s future – oligarchy or autocracy. The competing systems of power in the United States are divided between oligarchy and autocracy. There are no…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Don Braid discusses how Alberta’s health care system and polity are both collapsing under the weight of a UCP government which has utterly…
#Elxn44 Roundup
News and notes from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Dru Oja Jay discusses how activist movements can maximize their impact in a second consecutive minority Parliament by demanding meaningful and…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ian Austen takes Alberta’s shame to the international stage by pointing out how the UCP’s “best summer ever” has given rise to…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Karl Nerenberg notes that taxes on the wealthy represent an excellent starting point in ensuring that it’s possible to pass progressive policy in…
The Problem with Carbon Removal
This is Orca, the world’s largest carbon removal plant to date. It’s expected to draw 4,000 tons of airborne CO2 per year. It has two drawbacks. It’s expensive to build…
The Madness Contagion is Spreading Among Us
It took hold in the United States as the “Sovereign Citizen” or “Freeman on the Land” cult and now it’s spreading in Canada, making common cause with our anti-vaxx/anti-mask movement.…
Musical interlude
Japanese Breakfast – Be Sweet
Canadian Hostages En Route Home.
To those idiots who suggested that Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig weren’t being held hostage to secure the release of Hwawai CFO Meng Wanzhou but maybe were real spies, there…
About that Volcanic Eruption in the Canary Islands
When I read “La Palma” the story got my attention. Some years ago there was a documentary about a mega-tsunami threat to the US eastern seaboard resulting from a huge…
Monbiot – How Did the Left Follow the Right Down the Conspiracy Theory Rabbit Hole?
Guardian columnist, George Monbiot, sees the far left unwittingly making common cause with the far right across a broad range of issues from anti-vaxxing to a variety of conspiracy theories.…
Bolsonaro’s Amazon
On the right is the Amazon rainforest of the region’s indigenous tribes. On the left is the Amazon as Jair Bolsonaro prefers it. This does not end well.