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…
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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…
On narrow targets
At this stage of the federal election campaign, the seemingly wide range of outcomes is entirely an artifice of a first-part-the-post system with multiple parties contending for seats. Barring a…
On concealed motivations
Martin Lukacs worked for years documenting and explaining the Libs’ concealed raison d’etre… Whenever discontent builds up, the Liberals have always been there to safely channel it, like a political…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Jeremiah Rodriguez reports on the omission of Canadians with disabilities from much of the election campaign, while pointing out the priorities which…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Graham Thomson discusses how the UCP has put politics over public well-being in choosing to let COVID run rampant (while now seeking…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Umair Haque discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has been turned into a cash cow to be extended for profit, rather than a public…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – The Climate Emergency Alliance highlights the crucial climate change question which was left out of the federal debates – which is what…
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Jax Jones. feat. Ella Henderson – This Is Real
Covid 19 – You Can’t Heal a Sick Society
Jay Kaufman, McGill professor of epidemiology, writes that science alone cannot heal a sick society. The story begins in 1828 when a young Prussian pathologist was tasked with investigating a…
Climate Crimes – Fossil Giants Change Course, Sort Of. The Advent of Wokewashing.
I spent some time reading about the candidates in my riding. Two of them, the Green and the Liberal, seemed impressive. Sadly, my riding is a shoot out between the…
Monbiot’s Stratigraphy – Is Mankind Heading for Earth’s Geological History Book?
Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, writes that even well-intentioned nations are overlooking the perilous nature of climate tipping points. Complex systems seek equilibrium. When they are pushed too far out of…
#Elxn44 Roundup
Assorted content from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Seth Klein examines the considerations to take into account in casting a ballot for real climate action. And Michelle Gamage compares the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Kevin Maimann discusses how Alberta’s health care system is on the brink of collapse due to a complete COVID governance failure. Zak Vescera…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – David Miller discusses the steps Canada needs to take to help avert climate disaster – as well as the differences in the…