It’s Time To Blow Up The Party System
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…
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Friday Morning Links
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…
A General Cooks His Own Goose
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…
Powerful Words. "The Nazis Aren’t Getting In."
“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…
Something Has to Give. It’s Either Bolsonaro or the Amazon Rainforest.
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…
Another Nail in Canada’s Carbon Coffin?
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…
It Does Sound Plausible. What Putin Saw in Trump.
“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…
Fourth Major Heatwave in Five Weeks Building in the Rockies
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…
Thursday Morning Links
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…
Dammit, That’s Piling On. Blame the "Wobbling Moon."
Sea level rise is already causing problems such as coastal flooding, salination of freshwater reserves and erosion. It gets worse when storm surge and seasonal high tides are added to…
From Carbon Sink to Carbon Bomb
The world’s forests have traditionally been seen as an invaluable carbon sink. Those vast swathes of trees would suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, exchanging it for oxygen. Together with…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Marlene Habib writes about the continued efforts of grocery workers to ensure we have access to food and supplies in the face of…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Attentive cats.
Hell on Earth. It’s Arrived.
“Climate change has loaded the weather dice against us,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University and chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy. “These extremes are something…
Country Ahead of Party? Fat Chance.
It’s enough to make Liberals giddy. A majority win for the LPC is a matter of dropping the writ. 338 Canada has run the numbers. It concludes that with barely…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kit Yates offers a reminder of ignoring the exponential growth of COVID-19 as the Delta variant puts many jurisdictions back on that…
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’…
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…