Understaffed and Unprepared
Canada’s pandemic early warning system was not ready to meet the threat when Covid-19 hit our shores early last year. Canada’s Global Public Health Information System languished during the Liberals’…
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On mood disorders
Summer is the time for reruns. And when your local political columnist keeps repeating the same patently false assertions about public opinion in the face of actual evidence, well… How…
Narrowing Our Focus
There was a time when we had the luxury of worrying over where the Soviets were positioning their tank armies or how fast their newest bombers flew. We had time…
Shaping Our Kids’ Future
It’s hard to scrounge up money for climate change adaptation when you need those tens of billions for more important things, pipelines. Just look at Justin Trudeau’s eager beavers driving…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Crawford Kilian draws from Alex de Waal’s New Pandemics, Old Politics to make the case that plagues and the associated responses are invariably…
Dude, What Did You Expect?
Bombardier Chelsea Cogswell is scheduled to stand court martial next month for sharing pot cupcakes with her comrades in 2018. Apparently she distributed her goodies whilst her friends were engaged…
Faking Incidents To Attack Rights
The recent Wi Spa video incident in Los Angeles raises some very troubling implications about both the tactics that the Gender Critical / TERF crowd are now adopting, as well…
Is the Summer of ’21 a Turning Point or a Tipping Point?
NPR had an item this morning about Florida’s manatees dying off. They’re starving. Apparently warming waters are causing a die-off of their main food, sea grass. The victim du jour…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Richard Hurley discusses the findings of an inquiry showing that COVID-19 was treated largely as an opportunity for corporate profiteering rather than…
Smoke and Mirrors – Trudeau’s Climate Action Plan
Prime minister Trudeau recently previewed his government’s climate action plan and, as one might expect, it’s vague to the point of meaningless, just the way this PM likes it. Mr.…
Afghanistan Comes Full Circle
We had neither the will nor the means to win. Even if we did, we had no plan to win. Just what in hell were we doing in Afghanistan? What…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jennifer Lee reports on the debilitating lasting effects of long COVID. John Pavlovitz tells the story of his family’s experience suffering from COVID-19…
I Got Into It With a Republican Yesterday.
I was recently drawn into an online, Republican v. Democrat pissing contest. It began when this fellow claimed that America’s ills – the debt, the loss of its manufacturing base,…
America’s Roaster
If there’ll be any pattern emerging from the 2020s, it’ll probably be one of record heating. It’s happening world wide in the more equatorial latitudes. Some places are already registering…
Musical interlude
Joywave – The Inversion
California, Climate Emergency Poster Child.
California Dreaming’ – once was. I used to love riding the Pacific Coast Highway through northern California and the giant redwoods to the vineyards and wineries of the Napa Valley,…
The Great Game Never Ends
When then defense secretary, Colin Powell, warned George w. Bush that invading Iraq carried the Pottery Barn rule of “you break it, you own it” the neocons dismissed it. It’s…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Max Fawcett highlights why it’s foolish to throw out the protection face masks have provided both against a continuing pandemic, and other infectious…
Steady State Economics Re-Imagined For the 21st Century – Voila, the Circular Economy.
Cambridge University sent an email this morning inviting me to register for a 6-week course on the circular economy. I’m not interested in parting with $2,000 (USD) so I passed.…
Let’s Pretend
I know. The news is grim and it’s coming fast and furious. It’s hard to take. It can overwhelm, generating feelings of helplessness. I’ve been something of a Cassandra for…