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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Katie Raso describes the coronavirus pandemic as the neoliberal Chernobyl, having exposed how we’re not only unable to respond to a disaster…
Is It Too Much to Ask of the Incompetents Who Run this Country and Our Provinces?
Remember this time last year when we were shocked at the plight of nursing home patients dying from Covid-19? Oh boy, that was just the worst. Things were going to…
… and Kenney Called The NDP "Ideological"
So, today the Kenney government took the wraps off its proposed K-6 school curriculum: https://curriculum.learnalberta.ca/curriculum/en *I can’t guarantee how long this link will be viable, so screenshots will be used…
A World Gone Mad? The Rise of Antiscience Across the Right Wing.
What does it mean when your political philosophy depends on self-serving opinion at odds with fact? An article in Scientific American warns of the rise of “antiscience” birthed among America’s…
"Peace with Honour" or "The Will Is Gone."
What is America? What will America be in 10 or 20 years? The United States is a country undergoing rapid change and, to some extent, dragging the West along with…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Mariana Mazzucato responds to Boris Johnson by recognizing that capitalism has no viable answers for collective action problems such as the ones posed…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Alexandre Tanzi highlights how the 1% in the U.S. made out like bandits even as the country suffered through a pandemic year…
Photo Op
Georgia governor Brian Kemp, surrounded by a gaggle of mainly old white guys, signs his state’s new “Jim Crow” voting bill into law beneath a backdrop of the U.S. and…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Julia Wong reports on the building third wave of COVID-19 in Alberta. And Ricardo Tranjan examines how little the Ford PCs actually put…
Musical interlude
Danko Jones – I Want Out
When Science Needs Time to Grieve
One of the back stories to the climate crisis is the rate of burnout experienced by climate scientists. Some have migrated into other fields. Some have found teaching jobs in…
On fossilized assumptions
The comparative cost of different power options in the real world: The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – John Smith discusses the importance of recognizing and repairing the weaknesses in our social fabric which have been laid bare by the coronavirus…
New Name – the "Circular Economy"
Yesterday I received an invitation to register for a seminar course being hosted by the Judge School of Business, Cambridge. With a registration fee of 2,000 pounds I’ll give it…
Michael Harris Sees America Headed for Civil War. He’s Almost Certainly Wrong.
The Tyee’s Michael Harris sees a second civil war on the horizon for the United States. Unresolved issues from the Civil War, the civil rights battles of the 1960s, and…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Armine Yalnizyan highlights how our failure to put adequate resources into the caring sector stands in the way of both a COVID…
No Surprises. Supreme Court Upholds the Carbon Tax.
In a 6-3 split decision the Supreme Court of Canada, as expected, has upheld the Trudeau government’s carbon tax. Some will use the 3 justices dissent to attack the judgment…
Big Banks’ Betrayal
There’s a term for them, “fossil banks.” These are the big banks that routinely talk a good game about moving out of fossil fuel investments into green energy instead. But,…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – John Guyton, Patrick Langetieg, Daniel Reck, Max Risch and Gabriel Zucman examine (PDF) the massive amounts of money which people at the very…