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Trudeau Tags RC Church in Residential School Abuse. What Choice Did He Have?
Could it be that prime minister Trudeau doesn’t want another Catholic church scandal around his neck in a looming federal election? I suppose it’s cynical to suggest a possible linkage…
Vaccines Should Be a Last Resort
After SARS, MERS, Ebola and HIV we really dropped the ball by failing to be prepared when Covid-19 hit. We, or at least the affluent parts of the world, got…
The Unidentified Shall Remain Unidentified
In three weeks the US intelligence committee will deliver to Congress its report on what they really know about UFOs or what they call “unidentified aerial phenomenon.” Those in the…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Max Fawcett writes about Jason Kenney’s reckless wager of countless lives in the unlikely hope that a Stampede can save his political…
Is This the World We’re Bequeathing to our Grandkids?
Are we about to plunge out grandchildren into a climate that the Earth hasn’t known in 50 million years? A new report analyzing prehistoric levels of CO2 warns that may…
Democracy on the Ropes
I get the impression that there are now two types of Americans. There are Americans who believe they live in a democracy and those who couldn’t care less. Some, such…
Like an Avalanche, Unstoppable Change Can Start Off Slow
Is this your future? Probably not but it might be your grandkids’ future. This graph depicts the likely consequences of global warming destroying the polar ice caps, the end of…
Think We’re In the Clear? Think Again.
After what we’ve all been through these past 15 months who can blame us if we think we’ve finally gotten the upper hand on the Covid-19 virus. We’re starting to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ivan Semeniuk writes about the changing COVID-19 pandemic as the primary threat becomes the spread of variants which weren’t known or accounted for…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cleanup crew cats.
But Wait, There’s More – Human Experimentation on Residential School Children
Ian Mosby, PhD, has written a history of biomedical experimentation on indigenous people in Canada during the second half of the 20th century. A review of Mosby’s work, “Canada’s shameful…
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…
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…