Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jeff Zuk writes that there are plenty of reasons why COVID-19 case loads still matter – making it a sign of gross negligence…
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I Watched a Movie this Weekend. Wish I Hadn’t.
I don’t know a lot of climate scientists but there are a few with whom I maintain an occassional correspondence. There’s a fellow from Japan who is analyzing how the…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Peter Kalmus discusses how climate scientists are increasingly turning to civil disobedience to try to alert people to the need for immediate…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Stephanie Dubois reports on the growing body of research showing that the risk of COVID-19 reinfection is worsening due to the Omicron variants.…
Musical interlude
Kadebostany – Mind If I Stay
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that rhetoric about “learning to live with it” has become the go-to excuse to allow preventable tragedies – including the…
Explain This, Vlad. Russia’s Denials Don’t Hold Up.
German intelligence has intercepted Russian radio messages about first interrogating and then shooting Ukrainian civilians. The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany’s foreign intelligence service, has acquired gruesome new insights into the atrocities…
Problem Solved? The Sea Lions Have a Solution.
From disease-spreading fish farms to bitumen supertankers, Ottawa has done the west coast no favours. There is some good news. These damned fish farms are under attack – by sea…
Now More Than Ever? Covid Unmasked.
The UK reports that, at the end of March, one in thirteen Brits had active Covid infections. One in 13 down with Covid. At the same time, a new strain…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tim Requarth writes about the U.S.’ appalling number of COVID orphans who have lost caregivers due to failures in public health policy…
Wednesday Night Cat Blogging
Bagged cats.
#SKNDPLDR22 – The Race is On
I’ve previously noted the danger that the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign – however unnecessary it should have been to begin with – might be particularly damaging to the party if…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Rohan Smith reports on new research showing how little of the coronavirus needs to be passed from one person to another to result…
California Dreaming or "Looking Down the Barrel of a Loaded Gun."
California’s ongoing drought portends another miserable wildfire season across the West. UC Berkley prof, Andrew Schwartz, writes that California is going from bad to worse. Schwartz has just concluded the…
Sound Familiar? The Dirty Marriage of Politics and Oil.
There’s no way out of this unless we break the fossil fuelers grip on our politicians. The fossil fuel industry and its influence over policy was the major elephant in…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk discusses how the pandemic denial of Boris Johnson, Jason Kenney, Scott Moe and others is only ensuring that more people…
Falling Behind Faster and Faster – IPCC
The latest chapter in the IPCC’s third major report says that we have a very narrow chance of averting 1.5 degree warming. But, if we make the big sacrifices and…
The Flight from Reality – Nikiforuk
The Tyee’s Andrew Nikiforuk writes that we’re being left to our fates as province by province lifts Covid-19 restrictions. Like most modern politicians, Johnson couldn’t be bothered with dealing with…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Michael Marshall offers a reminder that even where it hasn’t been able to achieve its ideal goal, a zero-COVID strategy has produced far…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ezra Cheung reports on research showing the increasing severity of the Omicron BA.2 variant for children in Hong Kong, while David Axe…