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…
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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…
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#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election. – Alex Ballingall writes about the NDP’s task in translating the general popularity of Jagmeet Singh into votes and seats. And Gary Mason highlights…
New Zealand Gets a Blob
A “blob” in an area of unusual ocean heating, an oceanic heatwave. We’ve come to associate it with the North Pacific where it was first detected in 2013. Warmer conditions…
Afghanistan Reduced to Finger-Pointing
It’s the political equivalent of musical chairs. When the music stops someone has to pay. Justin Trudeau was prime minister when the Taliban rolled up Afghanistan’s central government so it’s…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – BBC News reports on the record COVID numbers arising in Scotland, while Josh Lynn and Carla Shynkaruk report on Charlie Clark’s call for…
Remembering Canada’s Greenest Prime Minister. Hint: He’s Not a Liberal.
We remember him as “Lyin’ Brian” to the extent he’s remembered at all but, for all his failings, Brian Mulroney was the greenest prime minister Canada ever had. I was…
Is There a Hail Mary in Your Future?
Guardian columnist Moira Donegan poses an important question, “what if it’s too late to save our planet without geoengineering?” What if? Donegan may be right. We may have allowed the…