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…
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#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.
Rule Brittania? No, Nay, Never.
In response to Canada’s half-assed efforts to defend its sovereignty in the Arctic, the Brits have offered to throw us a lifeline. Nobody in Ottawa has been paying much attention…
Oh Please, Now Can You Release Those Hostages? Please?
Meng Wanzhou is expected to make a virtual appearance in a U.S. court to enter a guilty plea to some sort of plea-bargained charges today. The Hwawai CFO has been…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Katherine Wu, Ed Yong and Sarah Zhang set out six rules which will shape how we handle the next wave of COVID –…
Mein Gott! He Said What? Glavin, Really?
I can’t think of the last time I agreed with National Post columnist, Terry Glavin. This could be a first. In his latest column, Glavin agrees with a former mentor,…
On echoes
Plenty of commentators have pointed out the symmetry between this year’s election and that of 2008 in terms of low voter turnout and general dissatisfaction with the outcome on the…
#Elxn44 Roundup
News and notes from the aftermath of Canada’s federal election. – Christo Aivalis is the latest to point out that nobody emerged from the election as a winner. And John…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The Institut economique Molinari studies how COVID Zero strategies have not only kept populations healthier, but helped to preserve higher levels of…
On the Road to Glasgow
COP26, the 26th attempt to get the community of nations to do something effective about the climate crisis, opens in about six weeks in Glasgow. There will be no end…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Julian Borger reports on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ call to address major inequities, including in climate action and vaccine distribution. And Stephanie…