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…
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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…
Canada Suspends Air Travel With India
After giving the public false assurances that our government had the Indian Covid threat under control, the feds have announced that flights from India and Pakistan will be banned for…
Canadian Banks Conspicuous by Their Absence
Yesterday, banks from around the world launched a global banking coalition for net zero emissions. The only financial institution from Canada to sign on was VanCity Credit Union. Canada’s Big…
Why India Matters
The prime minister assures us that there’s no need to halt flights from India to Canada due to the risk of spreading Covid-19. Mr. Trudeau says his government has all…
Inputs and outputs
There’s rightly been plenty of pushback against the Cons’ sad excuse for a climate change plan. But it’s worth highlighting that there’s one way in which the principle behind it…
Hard Numbers on Climate Crisis
The fossil energy industry relies on political collaborators to thwart meaningful action on greenhouse gas emissions. These Carbon Quislings routinely warn that the sky will fall without fossil fuels and,…
Nobel Laureates Call For a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
101 Nobel laureates have signed an open letter demanding an urgent switch to renewable energy, not just in the affluent nations, but in every country. The signatories are experts in…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Max Fawcett discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inability of simplistic right-wing populism to respond to any complex problem. And…
Canada Will Cut GHG Emissions by Oodles Vows PM!
Compared to their peers, the Brits have achieved fairly good results in cutting their greenhouse gas emissions. They not only promised – everyone does that – but they delivered. On…
Justice for George Floyd Waits Until August
Derek Chauvin was chump change. He was convicted in what seemed like a slam dunk case. One bad cop heads to the slam. Big deal. The real deal comes in…
Is Nothing Holy?
If Vancouver had a High Holy day it was yesterday, April 20 or, to stoners, 420. For many years 4/20 has been the day when members of the weed culture…