Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Robert Hiltz warns against letting the leaders responsible for preventable COVID deaths off the hook as part of an attempt to turn…
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Canada Day 2021 May Be Unlike Any Other
Bishop Grandin was a venerated cleric in the western provinces. There is a Bishop Grandin Boulevard in Winnipeg, a Grandin LRT station in Edmonton complete with mural of Grandin and…
Let’s Talk Dirt
When I was a child I went to visit my grandfather’s farm outside Leamington. The fields that would soon deliver an abundance of tomatoes for Heinz or sweet corn and…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Bartley Kives discusses the Pallister PC’s failure to respond to warnings about a new COVID wave (which of course reflects a pattern among…
Get Used to It. We Have Problems, Serious Problems, That We Can’t or Won’t Fix.
A lot of us have this “they’ll think of something” attitude whenever talk turns to the looming, even existential threats of the day. I have a friend, a guy who…
The Triumph of Neo-Feudalism
When Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney ushered in the neoliberal era of globalized free trade we were fed a package of lies. Yes, we would say goodbye to most of our…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – John Michael McGrath highlights how the COVID-19 B.1.617 variant represents a serious threat to the prospect of safely relaxing restrictions over the…
Payback for Agent Orange?
Vietnam has discovered a new Covid variant, a hybrid. “We have discovered a new hybrid variant from the Indian and the UK strains,” the health minister, Nguyen Thanh Long, was…
So Much Worse Than I Had Imagined
I hope to not hear anyone boasting about our great Canadian values, not for a while, not after the discovery of 215 unmarked children’s graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Zeynep Tufecki warns that the deadliest phase of the coronavirus pandemic may be yet to come even after vaccines become widely capable of…
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Tame Impala – Tomorrow’s Dust
About that Separation of Church and State Thing.
America has a new Bible. It’s the “God Bless America Bible.” Think of it as the scriptural equivalent of Reese’s pieces. The “God Bless the USA Bible” is expected to…
The Disaffected Lib Mk. II 2021-05-28 12:28:00
What sort of a summer are we in for? That depends on where you stand in a latitudinal sense. The more distance between you and the equator the better off…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Matt Gurney questions how it is that Ontario (like other provinces) is continuing to avoid any meaningful planning in its pandemic response, with…
It’s Time to Face Up to Reality
The Palestinian people are captive and, unless they leave their homeland, they will remain captive. Says who? Well, among others, Gwynne Dyer. He writes that the liberal progressive Israel embraced…
Farewell Ottawa, Hello Friendly Lane?
He was called many things, few of them flattering. He may have been the greatest fundraising machine on two legs the Tories ever had but, before long, he became a…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ian Welsh calls out the latest example of deceptive use of COVID-19 data to minimize the risk people continue to face, as…
A Ray of Hope on the Covid Front
People who have either had Covid-19 or been inoculated against it may have much greater immunity than initially expected. Immunity to the coronavirus lasts at least a year, possibly a…
When Governments Won’t Act Because They Don’t Want To Do the Right Thing
Does this sound familiar? All governments , but XXXXX XXXXXXX’s has perfected the art. It operates on the principle of commitment inflation: as the action winds down, the pledges ramp…
A Fancy Way of Saying ‘Theft’
De facto annexation. That’s how Ireland’s foreign minister describes Israel’s utterly illegal theft of the lands of the Palestinians. For decades much of the land Israel seized in the West…