On politicization
There have been a couple of indications as to how Alberta’s refusal to take basic health precautions in the face of COVID’s fourth wave (and in all likelihood Saskatchewan’s as…
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What’s that Distant Rumble? Oh, It’s the Start of America’s Climate Migration.
If you’re poor you have to take your chances of possibly dying in place. If you’re rich, you have options. Some wealthy Americans are already legging it, migrating away from…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jill Filipovic discusses how the mounting toll in human lives and health from COVID should leave no room for controversy about modest responses…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Christo Aivalis discusses Jagmeet Singh’s much-needed willingness to take on the power of the rich to fight for a country that works…
Money Talks. Will Big Oil and Its Political Handmaidens Listen?
Ten trillion dollars is a tidy amount of money. We may soon see whether that kind of cash is enough to tame the fossil fuelers and their political enablers. Investors…
Same Old, Same Old?
Don Ivison is calling the election for the Trudeau Liberals. He figures we’ll be back where we were before the writ was dropped. O’Toole dropped the ball on the climate…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Embedded cats.
#Elxn44 Roundup
News and notes from Canada’s election campaign. – Mohy-Dean Tabbara and Garima Talwar Kapoor examine what the parties are offering to combat poverty, while noting the need for more ambition…
Norm Macdonald, R.I.P.
A legend among comedians, Norm Macdonald has died, age 61
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Naël Shiab charts COVID case rates by province – showing in stark relief how Alberta and Saskatchewan are in a worse position…
Emissions Cuts. Are You Serious?
Torrential rain flooded the approaches to London’s venerable Tower Bridge today. The nearby Tube station was flooded – of course. Meanwhile, “Don’t Mess With Texas” is expecting up to 20…
Define "Clash"
Okay, fair enough, it was the Globe & Mail. The headline read: At Fairy Creek protesters and police clash over old-growth logging in British Columbia. “Clash” now there’s a loaded…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Khalden Dhatsenpa and Gavin Armitage-Ackerman write about the need to treat housing as a human right rather than a commodity. – PressProgress…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Cory Neudorf writes about the need for layers of COVID-19 protection now to avoid extreme measures like lockdowns due to the collapse of…
The Lancet. Focus on PM 2.5
The Lancet Planetary Health has devoted its latest volume, “Breathing Fire,” to the growing threat of wildfire smoke, the dangerous PM 2.5 that threatens the health, perhaps even survival, of…
Lest We Forget
We don’t remember very well. It’s human nature to forget even the not so distant past and, instead, consider the present as normal. There’s a term for it – “creeping…
Saudi Fingerprints Were All Over the 9/11 Attacks
It’s hard to know how this will play out but it could be a corner stone to Joe Biden’s presidential legacy. Late Saturday night, Biden took the lid off a…
David Frum – Dems Need to Open Their Doors to Old-School Republicans
They have only themselves to blame but there’s no point dwelling on that. Old School or what I call patrician Republicans are realizing that, even with Trump gone, the GOP…
Are We Becoming Ungovernable?
Like the jackass who threw gravel at Justin Trudeau we’re plainly becoming unruly but that’s not the point. Are we, as a nation, a society, becoming ungovernable? Are we disposed…