Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Andrew-Gee reports on the likelihood that Canada’s current COVID casualty numbers are a significant underestimate. Sabrina Jones highlights how health professionals are…
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Chretien’s Folly – Heading For the Bottom?
There are some Liberals who see Jean Chretien as a great man, one of Canada’s finest prime ministers. I liked Chretien but ‘great’? I associate Mr. Chretien with three things…
The Shifting Ground – Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Redundancy of the Human Species.
For generations, centuries, the horse and oxen were the muscle of agriculture. They ploughed the fields, harvested the grain and delivered the crop to market. For their time (and they…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about Canada’s contributions to the evidence showing how COVID-zero strategies have produced better results in terms of both health…
The Vaccination Rollout In Canada Is Being Botched – Deliberately
As a third wave of COVID is about to clobber Canada, I want to talk a bit about why this is completely unnecessary, and likely as not has more to…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Emma Jackson highlights why we shouldn’t treat carbon pricing as anything more than a tiny piece of a plan to avert a climate…
The Ground Shifting Beneath Our Feet
Like it or not (and there’s no reason to like it), we’re not going back to something we might recognize as “normal.” Similar, to be sure, but not the same.…
Musical interlude
Christine and the Queens – People, I’ve Been Sad
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – John Michael McGrath discusses how Ontario (like so many other jurisdictions) has walked directly into a third wave, resulting in people dying for…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Michael Atkinson and Haizhen Mou discuss their new polling showing that Canadians are particularly concerned with climate change and good jobs as…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jim Stanford weighs in on the need for increased worker input into economic decision-making – particularly as change is otherwise imposed by management…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Connected cats.
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…