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.…
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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…
One in Five. The Global Death Toll of Fossil Energy.
A study of global deaths in 2018 found that 8.7 million resulted from fossil fuel pollution. Researchers contend that amounts to one in five deaths that year. The findings are…
This is a Constitutional question, a matter of law. Why is it not before the court?
The Senators hearing the case for impeachment of Donald Trump are jurors. They’ve been sworn in as jurors. Ordinarily jurors decide issues of fact. Where there are disputed issues of…
Herd Immunity a Pipe Dream?
With the proliferation of Covid variants, the goal of achieving herd immunity may be unrealistic. The South African strain of the virus has shown the AstraZeneca and NovoVax vaccines to…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Angela Stewart interviews Malgorzata Gasperowicz about the potential for Alberta to eradicate COVID-19 with a seven-week shutdown, rather than letting new and more…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Bill Blaikie discusses how our growing inequality and precarity is the direct result of harmful policy choices: By 1985 we were five…
What’s Ailing the Neighbours and Why We Can’t Ignore It
America is in the throes of a malady that could cripple if not end the Republic. I have a sense of it and I expect you probably also sense it.…
It’s all over but the crying, I suppose.
It’s just another meme making the rounds of Facebook but I can’t get this one out of my head. It’s true. Even here in “tree hugger” country, British Columbia, our…