#SKNDPLDR Roundup
So far, the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign has been awfully quiet. And with a membership deadline looming for anybody who wants to be able to vote in the leadership election,…
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Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Zak Vescera reports on the combination of high rates of hospitalization and virtually nonexistent vaccination that’s resulted from Scott Moe’s surrender to COVID-19.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Peter Smits et al. examine some of the risk factors which tend to produce particularly severe breakthrough cases of COVID-19. The Economist…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andre Picard highlights how the response to COVID-19 has been complicated – if rendered all the more important – by the recognition that…
40% and Rising
A United Nations study finds that 40 per cent of the world’s arable farmland is now degraded. This undermines food security for the planet’s burgeoning population now closing in on…
No Surprises There. Trudeau Government Won’t Even Meet Its Own Tepid Climate Targets.
It’s a failing grade for the Liberal government’s meagre climate policies. There’s another solemn promise you can kiss goodbye. The Trudeau government came to power just weeks before the Paris…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Communicative cats.
I’m not ignoring you
I try to respond to comments left on my blog. Now, when I try, I’m told that I must first sign in to my Google account. I go to Google…
How Did We Slide So Far, So Fast?
Around the world, liberal democracy is in an existential struggle with fast-spreading neo-authoritarian rule. Think Donald Trump and Rick DeSantis. Think Viktor Orban, Poland’s Andrzej Duda, Marie le Pen. Think…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Lauren Pelley reports on the strain Canada’s children’s hospitals in particular are facing in the midst of COVID-19’s sixth wave. David Axe…
On set identities
While there’s been some attention paid to Environics’ polling on provincial identity politics, little of it seems to have noted just how little public interest there is in a highly…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Stephanie Desmon interviews Ziyad Al-Aly about the danger COVID-19 poses for the heart – even for people with mild cases which have otherwise…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Adam Miller discusses new research showing nearly half of Canadians have already caught COVID-19 at least once, while Charlie Smith offers a…
Macron – By a Nose
The G&M has pronounced Emmanuel Macron re-elected president of France. French President Emmanuel Macron defeated his far-right rival Marine Le Pen on Sunday by a comfortable margin, early projections by…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Renee Graham writes that the elimination of masking protections as a matter of privileged people’s comfort in the midst of a pandemic that…
Musical interlude
Dash Berlin – Oceans
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Nadine Yousif writes about the growing frustration people are experiencing as they’re told to manage their own risks in the midst of a…
Here’s an Idea Whose Time Has Come
A bill has been introduced in the California legislature to mandate a 32 hour or 4 day work week for larger companies. Fewer hours, same pay. The bill, AB 2932,…
Happy Earth Day?
Why does that sound like “happy colonoscopy”?