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BT feat. Emma Hewitt – No Warning Lights (Alpha 9 Remix)
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Wildfires Claim Second B.C. Town
Add the resort town of Monte Lake to the conflagration last month that erased the town of Lytton, B.C. On Thursday evening, the White Rock Lake wildfire jumped a highway…
I’m Sorry to Break the News to You but You’re Not Going To Win the Election
I just read the Green Party platform. I came away wondering what these people are smoking. For the last few elections I’ve voted Green, provincially and federally. Now I’m left…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Brooks Fallis highlights why a strategy limited to vaccines won’t stop a fourth wave of COVID-19. The CP reports on the call…
Angus Reid – the Pulse of the Nation, Lib Lead Widens a Smidge
Latest numbers from Angus Reid. Good news for the Liberals. They still hold a 5 point lead over Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives. It’s a 35 to 30 per cent split, probably…
Ah, Jeebus. Not the Atlantic Conveyor!
What next? Is the Gulf Stream, that does so much to regulate the weather in Europe and North America, on the verge of collapse? The research found “an almost complete…
Alberta’s Conservatives Are Abusers
It should come as no surprise to most readers that I have little use for conservatism in its current form. I think it has become something to be reviled, and…
But What About Syphilis?
Alberta’s medical officer of health, Dr. Dina Hinshaw, thinks she’s getting a bad rap for dismantling the province’s Covid-19 public health effort. She says lifting isolation requirements, asymptomatic testing and…
Define "Extreme"
The New York Times has a section it calls “Extreme Weather and Climate Updates.” That got me wondering how we should define “extreme” now that we’re truly in the throes…
Lousy Timing. Wildfire Closing In on Olympia.
With the Olympic games underway in Tokyo, the original site of the games, Olympia itself, is threatened by wildfires. The European Union sent assistance to Greece and other countries in…
Ottawa’s Epiphany – It’s Only Going to Get Worse
We’re on our own now. It used to be that, whenever Canada or the U.S. experienced terrible wildfires, the other would lend a hand. That was then. This is now.…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Nora Loreto points out the thousands of deaths known to have been caused by the spread of COVID-19 in Canadian hospitals – and…
Betrayal
This summer, with its heatwaves and wildfires, droughts and floods, has left no doubt that the age of climate breakdown is here. All we have left to decide is how…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Leisurely cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emily Anthes highlights what the people paying attention to COVID-19 (and particularly the Delta variant) have learned about the risks of transmission…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Jonathan Howard writes that the recognition of higher COVID-19 risks in adults has been used as a means of misleadingly minimizing the risks…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lauren Pelley examines the impact of the Delta variant in Canada. And Marieke Walsh notes that we’re facing an increasingly tight time…
"The Year They Ran Out of Excuses"
Labour MP, Ed Miliband, writes that climate delay, not climate denial, has become our biggest enemy. Nothing, he warns, is more dangerous than the “illusion of action.” Future generations will…
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Glass Animals – It’s All So Incredibly Loud