#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – PressProgress takes a look at the housing plans on offer – finding the NDP’s plan to be the best of the major…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – J. Stacey Klutts offers a summary of the lessons we’ve already learned about the Delta variant – including the need to combine…
Just a Matter of Time
How Enbridge and its Tory handmaidens want Canadians to see the Northern Gateway/Kitimat supertanker route: That’s it. Nothing to worry about. Wide open waters all the way to China. The…
Because Drylanders Have Short Memories
The Conservative leader yesterday confirmed that, if he becomes prime minister, a priority will be to resuscitate the Northern Gateway pipeline bringing bitumen to the port of Kitimat on BC’s…
Home Truths and Hard Choices
What’s it going to be? You decide. A terrific op-ed in The Globe & Mail (of all places) titled, “Tesla Owners Have No Reason to Gloat About Saving the Environment.”…
Erin O’Toole’s Trojan Horse
If British Columbians were toying with the idea of supporting the Conservatives, Erin O’Toole has just given them all the reason they need to say ‘no way.’ Using the pretence…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Charlie Pinkerton reminds us of the need to ensure that any party seeking power addresses the ongoing opioid crisis. – David Akin…
The Taliban’s Phyrric Victory
The Taliban are back in control of Afghanistan but they may soon regret their victories. Afghanistan is a mess. The former government’s coffers were heavily padded with foreign aid. 8…
Review: Personal Politics
Movement history. An interview-based and archival history of the emergence of the women’s liberation movement in the United States in the late 1960s. It particularly focuses on the ways in…
Review: Personal Politics
Movement history. An interview-based and archival history of the emergence of the women's liberation movement...
Britain’s "Mid-Lifers" Rise to Meet Climate Breakdown
A survey finds that Britain’s Over-50s want tougher measures to fight the climate crisis even if it results in higher costs. A survey of more than 500 people aged 50…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tzvi Joffre reports on the C.1.2 COVID variant which is confirming that the threat posed by the coronavirus continues to change and spread.…
Barely Three Weeks to Election Day, What Does Trudeau Need to Do to Win?
Truth is there’s not one of them I want to win. Not one of them has a compelling policy to fight our worsening climate breakdown and, yes, that goes for…
Winning Slowly is Losing – and We’re Winning Very, Very Slowly
Hot on the heels of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the rapidly worsening climate breakdown, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its…
On history repeating
With the Libs floundering in an election campaign where they considered themselves entitled to waltz into power and the NDP making a push toward the top of the party standings,…
A Blast from the Not Too Distant Past
Tora Bora, 2001. I came across this photo of Northern Alliance fighters in 2001 watching American heavy bombers rain destruction on the hills of Tora Bora where Osama bin Laden…
What a Way to Wake Up
Covid, Kabul and Ida. It’s become a habit that every morning before I alight from bed I have my Alexa give me news summaries from CBC, NPR and BBC. Today…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian takes note of new research showing that the Delta variant of COVID-19 produces more severe outcomes (including increased hospitalization rates) even…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – The Maple examines how the timing and format of the campaign chosen by Justin Trudeau could hardly have been designed for lower…
What a Difference a Generation Can Make
Justin Trudeau skipped another campaign appearance today over security concerns, this time in Bolton, Ontario. Dozens of angry protesters, who outnumbered Liberal supporters, gathered near the Bolton rally and began…