It’s not easy to stay current with Covid developments in Canada, province by province, and yet it’s at the provincial level that many of the boneheaded decisions are taken. In…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jonah Brunet points out the wide variety of definitions of the term “lockdown” in response to COVID-19 – with imprecision in the meaning…
Rush Limbaugh has departed this mortal coil. Lung cancer. Age 70. Trump bid adieu, calling Limbaugh “a true American legend.” “In theory, he could have been gone four months ago,…
Embedded cats.
Climate change is the mortal enemy of public infrastructure – the highways, railways, ports and electrical grids we (i.e. our parents and grandparents) built to facilitate our modern economies. The…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kamran Abbasi makes the case to treat the avoidable deaths resulting from the mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic as a form of…
There is a group of people I think of as the Cognoscenti, people who are well educated, very informed and of rapidly diminishing relevance. Their ranks include writers such as…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – As we lay the groundwork for a COVID recovery and energy transition, Heather Scoffield comments on the importance of making sure resources go…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nazeem Muhajarine discusses the importance of a response to the coronavirus which recognizes how a virus can change course and pose new…
There’s something that’s poisoning democracy in the United States. Retired US army commander turned historian and author, Andrew J. Bacevich, writes that it’s the toxin Martin Luther King identified as…
As expected, the Senate has refused to convict Donald Trump. Seven Republicans voted to convict, short of the 17 that would have been needed. The evidence of Trump’s impeachable offences…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Duncan Cameron writes about the fundamental choice between austerity and full employment in developing the 2021 federal budget. And Noah Smith points out…
Canada is a member in good standing of the G7, the world’s leading powerhouses. Yet, when it comes to Covid-19, we’re a lowly 37th or 38th in terms of percentage…
Tame Impala – Lost in Yesterday
Former Trump acolyte, Nikki Haley, has had an epiphany, a truly religious-grade conversion. Haley now says it was a mistake for Republicans to have backed Donald Trump and his presidency.…
Shorter Murray Mandryk: Who can really say whether we should want to have more or less spread of a deadly disease? What we should focus on is compromising on a…
Assorted content to end your week. – Joe Vipond, Malgorzata Gasperowicz and Christine Gibson discuss how it’s entirely feasible for Alberta (or any other province) to be COVID-free if its…
It struck me while watching the impeachment trial underway in the Senate that, for Democrats, this was about far more than putting the boots to Donald J. Trump. This was…
20 years ago Michael Goldhaber warned us about the complete dominance of the internet, increased shamelessness in politics, terrorists co-opting social media, the rise of reality television, personal websites, oversharing,…
The fish farms that proliferate along the BC coast under the auspices of the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans are devastating our marine environment. Salmon farming is wreaking ruin…
