Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Romano reports on Denmark’s explosion of COVID cases after it prematurely lifted public health protections. Ariana Eunjung Cha reports on the cardiac…
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When No One Has Clean Hands or How to Reap the Whirlwind
It’s one of those complex issues. Russia makes an apparent land grab in two separatist enclaves in Ukraine. Boil off all the inconvenient complexity and that’s what you’ve got. What…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Dozing cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – BBC reports on the justified fears of medically vulnerable people that they’re being left behind by the UK Cons’ decision to eliminate…
What, Trucker Tokers?
We’re all feeling the pinch from the breakdown of freight transport. Goods are just not getting to market as normal. Short supply, costs and prices go up. There’s a shortage…
Alberta To Waste Taxpayer $ on Frivolous Lawsuit
So, yesterday, Jason Kenney announced that Alberta was going to sue the Federal Government for “trampling on provincial jurisdiction” with the Emergency Measures Act … all of a few days…
The End of the Postwar World
Today marks the end of the post-Cold War world. At least that’s how the editorial board of the Washington Post views Vladimir Putin’s decision to recognize two disputed regions of…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Alexandra Hutzler reports that even a majority of Americans seeing mask mandates lifted aren’t prepared to buy the line that it’s safe to…
Drowning in Greenwash
November, 2015. A newly elected Canadian prime minister took to the floor of the Paris Climate Summit and proclaimed “Canada’s back.” The climate pariah, Stephen Harper, had been vanquished. Canada…
Flash Floods in London???
One thing that still amazes me when these climate emergency events occur is how easily our resilience is overwhelmed. Next week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its…
"Useful Idiots"
Andrew Nikiforuk has always been a very credible journalist. I don’t dismiss his work lightly and neither should you. His latest column, however, will trigger some of you to skepticism.…
"Don’t Call Them Protesters" – Michael Harris
Michael Harris writes that the mob that occupied Ottawa’s Centretown were no more “protesters” than the mob that ransacked the Capitol on January 6th were “tourists” or “patriots.” And he…
The J. Trudeau Memorial Pipeline Now Way, Way Overbudget.
Justin Trudeau’s legacy project, a.k.a. the Trans-Mountain pipeline, a.k.a. Trudeau’s Folly, was well overpriced to begin with. Now that inflated figure has swelled by another 70 per cent. It has…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Umair Haque writes about the reasons why the COVID pandemic is far from over – and indeed the worst may be yet…
The Same Old Song. Privatize Profits, Socialize Costs.
When will we learn? The Faro mine was supposed to be a boon for the Yukon. It was said to be the largest open-pit lead/zinc mine in the world. Now…
On unhealthy outcomes
Not surprisingly, Ryan Meili’s announcement that he’ll be stepping down as leader of Saskatchewan’s NDP comes as a major disappointment. To be clear, the decision is understandable both from a…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jonathan Koltai et al. study the mental health effects of COVID vaccination – finding a justified decrease in stress among people who have…
Musical interlude
Hooverphonic – Dirty Lenses
Sure, It’s All Trudeau’s Fault
According to the National Post, Canadians have lost faith in the federal government’s ability to keep peace and order. Predictable NatPo nonsense yet there’s probably a kernel of truth in…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Arundhati Roy writes that pandemics may herald new political directions – though that reality makes the exploitation of compassion fatigue by corporate extractive…