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Royksopp feat. Beki Mari – This Time, This Place
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Will the Arctic Become the Frontline for Cold War II?
It looks like we’re heading for another Cold War showdown between the Russian bear and the NATO nations. This time the Arctic may be Russia’s front line. The Arctic is…
Putin Puts Finland and Sweden on Notice
Vlad Putin’s superpower psychopathy is running wild. Now he’s threatening Finland and Sweden – join NATO and there’ll be military repercussions. A spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry has warned…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Carly Weeks examines why so many Canadian children still haven’t been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. John Loeppky asks that we not eliminate the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jacques Poitras talks to some of the at-risk people whose freedom will be undermined by the scrapping of public health protections. Phil…
Earth’s Water Cycle Broken
Life on Earth depends on two elements, water and oxygen. Water is constantly recirculated by the hydrologic cycle. Water goes up into the atmosphere via evaporation and transpiration and it…
Top Trump Prosecutors Quit
Not one but two heavy guns recruited by former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. for the criminal investigation into Donald Trump have resigned. Carey Dunne, the office’s former general counsel,…
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…
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…