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"Equitable Climate Resilience" – What?
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is teaming up with cities in 11 states to map “heat equity.” Extreme heat kills more Americans than any other weather event, but not…
A Reporter Under Siege Writes from India’s Charnel House
Three things emerge from Jeffrey Gettleman’s report from New Delhi – fear, desperation and helplessness. Crematories are so full of bodies, it’s as if a war just happened. Fires burn…
Canada’s Coal Hypocrisy
It’s called the Powering Past Coal Alliance and it’s led by the UK and Canada. Well done us. Except that it’s just more greenwash. Paul Schreiber, the author of the…
Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
One reason I jettisoned my affiliation with the Liberal Party was when I realized there wasn’t much liberal left in it. Nothing made this so apparent as the Liberals fulsome…
Isn’t it Time to Cry "Uncle"? If Not Now, Then When?
I don’t believe there’s a snowball’s chance in hell of something of this enormity happening any time soon. That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t. Covid-19 has brought us face first into…
Pushing Back. The Greek War on Migration.
We’re entering an era of mass migration. There are several triggers – conflicts, climate change, food insecurity, alone or in combination. These migrations sometimes pit desperate people, struggling to survive,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – John Paul Tasker reports on new data from the Public Health Agency of Canada showing how public health measures have slowed the transmission…
Without Us, Covid-19 Would Be a Big Fat Nothing
We’ve learned a lot about Covid-19. Compared to other viruses it’s easily transmissible. It’s very contagious, easily spread. It’s also pretty lethal, far worse than seasonal influenza, which makes it…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Rich Mendes reports on new research showing that the longstanding focus on physical distance as a means of avoiding the indoor transmission…
Is India a Threat to Us All?
What happens in India does not stay in India. Thanks, in part, to a rightwing government that downplayed the Covid pandemic, India’s limited healthcare system has been overwhelmed. Out of…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Fahad Razak, David Naylor and Arthur Slutsky discuss how it’s not too late to pull our health care system back from the brink…
See, they are crazy. Tory MP Equates Covid Lockdowns with WWII Internment Camps.
And the Nutjob du Jour award goes to some dude named David Sweet, Conservative member of parliament for the riding of Flambo-Clusterf**k. The Tory shadow minister for international rights and…
NYT – Covid Too Critical to Be Left to the Private Sector
Back to the future. Move over, Big Pharma. It’s time for governments to take the reins in times of catstrophe. Today’s New York Times editorial urges a greater role for…
Oh Dear. Biden’s Done It. Erdogan Will Be Livid.
President Joe Biden has recognized the 1915 Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Turks. Today, April 24, is the anniversary of the atrocity. While other nations have recognized the…
Musical interlude
London Grammar – Lose Your Head
People are Asking. So, What Do You Think?
In recent days I’ve run into a recurring question – in telephone conversations, while getting a haircut and in a pollster’s online surveys. People, it seems, want to know when…
Bolsonaro "Brewing Covid Variants, Left, Right, and Centre"
Rightwing politicians have a pretty lousy record of handling the Covid-19 pandemic. From Trump to Bolsonaro to Modi, to any number of Red State state houses and our own Kenney…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Mechanic discusses how the promise of noblesse oblige represents nothing more than an excuse for a system designed to encourage the greedy…
India’s Peril
India closed out yesterday having logged just over 330,000 new Covid cases. One doctor told the CBC he hopes they can confine the pandemic to the cities because, once it…