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…
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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…
Our "Ghastly" Future
No one, as yet, has come up with a solution to the great challenge facing those who want to settle Mars – terra forming. Mars can’t be settled until it…
Common Ground
Two lessons we should have learned from the recent Tory policy convention. One, is that politics in Canada has been liberated from fact. Two, is that no nation, Canada included,…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Stretched cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard offers a look at what the arrival of a third wave of the coronavirus will mean. Morgan Lowrie reports on…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tenille Bonogoure writes about the human costs of Canada’s choice to respond to a deadly infectious disease with polite deference rather than a…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nazeem Muhajarine, Cory Neudorf, Kyle Anderson and Alexander Wong each point out the desperate need for Saskatchewan to keep people healthy in…
On plausible alternatives
One of the perennial frustrations in following federal politics is the tendency of media coverage to default toward a Lib-Con duopoly. That pattern typically manifests itself when polling data and…