Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Nicola Davis writes about the large number of people getting reinfected with COVID in the UK, while Andrew Gregory reports on new research…
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Ottawa’s Splendid Greenwash
The devil, as usual, is in the details. There was plenty of bombast today in Ottawa as the Trudeau government announced bold targets to cut Canadian CO2 emissions by 45…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Phil Tank writes that the Saskatchewan Party has only reluctantly held off on eliminating even what little information it still provided the…
Dirty Oil, Dirty Money
Canada’s chartered banks love fossil fuels. Despite all the dire warnings of climate catastrophe, our banks, like our federal government, are big on bitumen. Canada’s five biggest banks increased their…
So It’s the F-35 After All
And the winner is the stealth bomb truck from Lockheed Martin. Canada wants to buy 88 F-35s for some reason. Maybe it has something to do with courting America’s favour.…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jennifer Rigby and Julie Steenhuysen report on the latest COVID-19 wave and its direct connection to the elimination of public health protections. Eric…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Furnished cats.
Pierre’s Libertarian Economy
So, putative CPC leadership front runner Pierre Poilievre wants to rejig our economy and monetary policy to use cryptocurrency. In Poilievre’s mind, central banks have “too much power”, and expanding…
Are We Being Set Up? Your Insurer May Be Playing You For a Sucker.
Munich Re, Swiss Re, Hanover Ruck – these outfits know a thing or two about risks and usually give you the straight goods. They’re the giants that retail insurers rely…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Adam Kleczkowski examines the effectiveness of COVID-19 interventions two years into the pandemic, while noting the importance of applying the precautionary principle…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Laura Spinney offers a reminder that the few places which actually made an effort at a COVID Zero strategy have fared far better…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Carly Weeks reports on the work being done to begin to understand and treat long COVID, while Erika Edwards reports on the profiteers…
On barriers to cooperation
It’s for the best that the NDP and Libs have been able to come to terms on a supply and confidence agreement which should at least provide for substantial material…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Wallace-Wells examines the massive global toll of excess deaths from COVID-19 (likely far exceeding even the already-alarming official counts). Nele Brusselaers et…
Czar Vladimir Changes Course, Accuses West of "Cancel Culture."
By most accounts, Vlad Putin’s blitzkrieg on Ukraine isn’t the grand triumph he was counting on. It’s an embarrassment to the former KGB colonel whose real enemies surround him within…
Musical interlude
Gorgon City, DRAMA – You’ve Done Enough
Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapses
Relax, it’s not the Thwaites ice sheet. You might have to wait a few years for that one. It’s the Conger ice sheet, at 1,200 sq. kms. a good deal…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Winnie Wan Yee Tso et al. study the severity of the Omicron BA.2 COVID variant, and find that its rate of deaths and…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Katherine Wu warns that another U.S. COVID wave may severely test what’s already proven to be an alarming willingness to accept injury…
Some Pictures Are Worth a Thousand Words
Voila, courtesy of The Tyee.