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…
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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…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Naptime cats.
Around the World, People are Losing Trust in The System
The latest Edelman Trust Report finds that people are losing trust in both society’s institutions and capitalism itself. The culprit? Intractable inequality. Despite strong economic performance, a majority of respondents…
Is This the Night of Reckoning for Annamie Paul?
The federal council of the Green Party of Canada will convene tonight to consider whether to show leader, Annamie Paul, the door. According to party members with knowledge of the…
Could Cyber-War Trigger Nuclear War? Are the "Bad Old Days" Back to Stay?
Many of the war-studies types fear that a nuclear exchange could be triggered inadvertently. Nobody would plot to launch a nuclear exchange. Nobody would want it. The risk is that…
That Cuts It. Annamie Paul Has to Go or the Greens Are Finished.
There has been no end of speculation surrounding former Green MP Jenica Atwin’s defection to the Liberal Party. The scenario revealed by Michael Harris that, despite her claims of innocence,…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jessica Elgot, Aubrey Allegretti and Nicola Davis report on the UK’s delay in lifting coronavirus restrictions as it battles the Delta variant.…
The Horde In Our Back Yard
Remember Marlon Perkins’ “Wild Kingdom”? We’ve got something like that on our doorstep only it’s not hyenas or lions on the hunt. It’s something far bigger, transient orcas. Here is…
If You Wonder If You Got the Right Vaccine
Canada has pledged to donate 100 million doses of Covid vaccine but notice what is conspicuous by their absence. The specific breakdown of the pledge was finally released Sunday by…
Bibi is Toast
Benjamin Netanyahu’s premiership has gone the way of the Norwegian Blue parrot. He’s out on the street where Israeli prosecutors can finally hold him to account on corruption charges. Palestinians…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Tom Parkin calls out Jason Kenney’s defence of genocide and its architects in an attempt to keep his party’s white supremacist base…
Great. We’re Burying a Family of Murdered Muslims. What to Do, What to Do? Oh, I know, Let’s Hold a Summit on Anti-Semitism!
The optics may not be great but the Trudeau government is staging an emergency summit on antisemitism. WTF? The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs has been calling for an…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ed Yong discusses the preventable dangers created by a shift in COVID-19 messaging from one of public protection to one of individual choice.…
Musical interlude
Foo Fighters – Shame Shame
Victoria Cancels Canada Day Celebration
Victoria city council has voted unanimously to cancel a scheduled virtual Canada Day celebration. City councillors in Victoria have voted unanimously to cancel a planned Canada Day broadcast in order…
A World on Fire
Wildfires are becoming a major disaster around the world. Last year we even saw fires sweep across Siberia and deep inside the Arctic Circle. In a coastal towns in Australia,…