Monday Morning Links
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…
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Sunday Afternoon Links
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…
Andrew Bacevich, "When Poisons Curdle."
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…
Surprise. Senate Refuses to Convict Trump.
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…
Saturday Afternoon Links
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…
Square This Circle.
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…
Musical interlude
Tame Impala – Lost in Yesterday
A Little Late, Nikki Haley Tries to Grow a Pair
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.…
Here we are now, going to the bothsides
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…
Friday Morning Links
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…
Is This the First Rumble? A Revolt in Republican Ranks.
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…
How the Internet Re-Wired Our Brains and the Man Who Warned It Was Coming
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,…
British Columbia’s Coastal Scourge – Ottawa and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans
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…
The End of the Line For the Cavendish Cottager
A dark day on Friendly Lane, Prince Edward Island, as the Supreme Court of Canada ends Mike Duffy’s quest for redress against the Senate and RCMP. Duffy was seeking $7.8…
Guess Who’s Back? Sputnik Returns. Amerika Crashes and Burns.
A lot of eyebrows were raised when Russia announced it had a Covid vaccine, the first to be available publicly. Fittingly the Sons of Lenin named it “Sputnik,” after the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Steven Lewis examines how Canada can and should learn from Australia’s success in controlling the coronavirus, while Robert Danich writes that conservative…
Was Pierre Poilievre Breathing Too Hard on Erin O’Toole’s Neck?
The Tories like nothing so much as eating their dead – after they’ve knifed them in the back. Diefenbaker was felled from within. So was Joe Clark. Andrew Scheer, ditto.…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Caroline Chen discusses why opening restaurants and other indoor venues which involve prolonged contact is the worst possible choice if one wants to…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Elevated cats.
Repugs Lose 56-44. Impeachment Trial is Constitutional.
The good news is that the Dems carried the day on the challenge to the constitutionality of impeaching a president after he has left office. The bad news is that…