If we’re to have any hope of achieving herd immunity over Covid-19, we might have to resort to a little muscle. Max Boot writes that “pretty please” isn’t working. President…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – John Paul Tasker writes that Canada needs to push hard to increase the number of vaccinated people to prevent a fourth wave of…
The accusation is numbing. Two TB researchers allege that the mass deaths from tuberculosis at Canada’s residential schools were no accident. Lena Faust, a PhD student at the McGill International…
Hallelujah! There has been a precipitous drop in the number of Americans who identify as evangelical Christians from 23 per cent of the population in 2006 to just 14 per…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Kelly Grant writes that the toll from COVID-19 includes driving many workers out of the nursing profession. And Kim Siever notes that…
“Same old, same old” used to convey monotony, something dull, repetitive and boring. Our same old, same old world is no longer. We may wish it wasn’t. Our world is…
Americans, or half of them, are descending into madness. This item from CNN explores the link between those who reject the idea that Joe Biden won last November and the…
Angus Reid finds that the Liberal lead over the O’Toole Conservatives isn’t what it was even just two weeks ago. The Trudeau Liberals were comfortably ahead – so long as…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Robert Booth and Heather Stewart report on Boris Johnson’s insistence on lifting COVID-19 protections even as case counts rise in the UK. And…
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Chris Hedges believes America is in a pre-revolutionary state, coming apart at the seams. Hedges is no outlier either. A report in Newsweek suggests Americans, Blue State and Red State,…
I have never been a political partisan. That isn't to say I don't have political beliefs, or positions. But I simply don't buy into the broad idea of being a…
Assorted content to end your week. – Claire Pomeroy and the Financial Times each highlight the likelihood that survivors of long COVID will be affected for the rest of their…
Former chief of defence staff, general Jonathan Vance, is neck deep in allegations of inappropriate conduct toward female subordinates. Now, it’s alleged, he’s gone from the frying pan into the…
“I Alone Can Fix It: Donald Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year” appears to shine a glaring light on, among other things, Trump’s exit after losing the election to Joe Biden. One…
It’s a pretty scary idea – the Amazon rainforest may be unable to survive Jair Bolsonaro. The collapse of the Amazon rainforest is inevitable if Jair Bolsonaro remains president of…
Canada’s longstanding position on fossil fuels is “We just make the stuff. We’re not responsible for what someone else does with it.” That argument seems to be running into resistance…
“An impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex” Of course Vlad Putin’s people ran a psychological profile of Donald Trump during the run-up to the…
If this summer is doing anything it’s in demonstrating that the climate emergency is here. Now. It’s here now. Extreme heat, extreme drought, fires so intense they create their own…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Umair Haque discusses how the UK is headed for yet another avoidable wave of COVID-19 disaster. Sarah Rieger reports on the rising…
