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…
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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…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board laments the choice of far too many provincial governments to sacrifice tens of thousands of lives rather…
Musical interlude
glimmers – Don’t Tell Me
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk takes a look at two proposals to get to COVID Zero – including one from Canada and one from Germany. –…
Trump to SAG – "You Can’t Fire Me, I Quit."
Don Trump, notorious golf cheat, serial sex offender, all-round degenerate and former president of the United States, fired off a blistering letter after the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation…
Marge is Furloughed
Georgia Republican Marge Greene has been given her pink slip. The House majority Dems, with a few Republicans in support, voted to cancel the conspiracy theorist/anti-Semite’s committee appointments without which…
Should "Marge" Be the New Term for Lunatic?
If anyone deserves mockery and ridicule, it’s the Representative for Georgia’s 14th District, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Marge is, in a word, a “nutjob.” She has promoted just about every conspiracy…
Erin O’Toole’s Dark Farce
Oh, now the Conservatives are getting worried about Canada’s relationship with the United States. Four years of getting bullied and smeared by Trump, that was apparently okay. Biden, oh, there’s…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Damien Cave writes about the lessons Australia’s successful containment of COVID-19 offer to any other jurisdiction willing to listen and learn rather…
French Government Convicted of Greenwashing
Imagine if your federal and provincial governments could be put on trial for failing to meet their commitments to fight climate change. Today, a court in Paris convicted the French…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jim Stanford reminds us that a focus on protecting health is the best strategy to ensure a functioning economy. And Gary Mason writes…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Elevated cats.
Alberta’s Administrative Penalties Act: Justice More Expedient, or Justice Denied?
In July 2020, Alberta passed a bill which makes sweeping changes to what it euphemistically calls "Administrative Penalties" (basically anything you might get a ticket for) and the way that…
We’ve Got’em On the Run Now, Boys.
We, humankind, are putting nature to rout and that’s not good for any species including our own. A new study in Nature, Ecology and Evolution of 160 species on six…