Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Zania Stamataki warns that we can’t afford to treat vaccines as a magic bullet against the dangers of the coronavirus when public health…
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It’s Hot Even Where It’s Supposed To Be Not
For most of my considerable life heatwaves were not associated with the far north. Over the past few years that has changed even to the point of wildfires spreading high…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Water cats.
Of Course It’s Dysfunctional, Junior. You Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way.
Yeah, Sure. Building the case for an early election, prime minister Trudeau today complained that parliament is afflicted by “toxicity” and “obstruction.” Hard to tell what he’s complaining about. Toxicity…
On Bill C-6 – Conversion Therapy
Bill C-6's next step is on to the Senate once the House of Commons holds a third reading vote. I expect the usual suspects like Senator Plett will do their…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Canadian Press reports on new Leger polling showing that over two-thirds of Canadians want to see COVID-19 protections remain in place…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Josh Taylor reports on contact tracing which has revealed that “fleeting contact” can be enough to result in the spread of the COVID-19…
Can Joe Biden Finally Bury Milt Friedman?
American economist, Milt Friedman, captured the somewhat limited imaginations of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and our own Brian Mulroney and they, in turn, ushered in the era of free market…
Let’s Talk A Bit About "Gender Ideology"
Over at The Economist, we have a somewhat simplistic article blathering away about how there's a backlash happening against "Gender Ideology". I'm not going to dissect the article in detail,…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – As Jason Kenney and Scott Moe rush to slash public health protections including mask mandates, Gavin Leech et al. study how important…
The Picture of Madness
The New Normal The American southwest has a problem that most residents prefer to avoid. The region is getting pistol-whipped by climate change, a deadly combination of severe heatwaves and…
Bercow Defects to Labour
As former Speaker of the British House of Commons, John Bercow became a celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic. First elected to represent the riding of Buckingham in 1997,…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Joe Vipond, Kashif Perzeda and Danielle Cane write that Canada’s failure to talk about the airborne transmission of COVID-19 (or the public health…
Musical interlude
Metric – Blindness
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – CBC News reports on the expert response to deaths caused by the spread of the Delta COVID-19 variant in a Calgary hospital –…
Something Amazing Could Be Unfolding Before Our Eyes
Over the past two decades the American southwest has been hit by droughts. That hasn’t stopped the region from growing with the arrival of newcomers, especially retirees from the northern…
Doubling Down on Racism – The Chris Champion Edition
Over at the Dorchester Review, we find one Chris Champion doubling down on his position that the "Indian Residential Schools (IRS) really weren't all that bad". The dust-up on Twitter…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jennifer Yang and Kenyon Wallace discuss how the Delta variant makes the COVID-19 pandemic far more dangerous than it had been before…
When Your Entire Planet is a "Heat Island."
In an amazingly brief period of time, the Earth is retaining more of the man-generated heat, double the amount in 2005. The amount of heat Earth traps has roughly doubled…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Tavia Grant writes that a year and half of experience have confirmed that the most important element in reducing the workplace spread of…