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A Great Lakes bulk carrier heading downriver past Detroit on its way to Lake Erie.
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Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Zak Vescera reports that the Moe government’s push toward privatizing COVID testing has turned into such a fiasco that even the for-profit operators…
Tribal America
NYT columnist, Frank Bruni, writes that Covid has brought out the worst in his fellow Americans – tribalism. The pandemic, which could and should have brought us together, has instead…
Anthony Fauci Looks Back on the Last Two Years and a Nation in Decline
He hasn’t had a day off since Covid-19 took hold in America and he’s exhausted. But the pandemic has not been Anthony Fauci’s real struggle. “There is no truth,” Fauci…
Playing To the Fringe. Like the Republicans Before Them, Canada’s Tories Cozy Up to Extremists
It’s no secret that the prairie provinces are the Conservative heartland. It’s also no secret that some six million Canadians, ardent fans of Donald Trump and Trumpism, are mainly from…
O’Toole Autopsied. It Ain’t Pretty.
Conservatives are wondering how in hell they lost the last election? A post-mortem review might have them asking how they did so well. The last Conservative campaign suffered from eroded…
Nikiforuk – Let’s Just Pretend It’s Over
Andrew Nikiforuk pierces the curtain of political obfuscation on Covid-19. His message – it’s all horsecrap. I come on behalf of many of Canada’s public health officials, along with our…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Stephanie Carvin, Kurt Phillips and Amarnath Amarasingam discuss how anti-vaxx themes in Canada are being pushed and used by the fascist right.…
Is This "Climate Departure"?
In 2013, climate scientists at the University of Hawaii, analyzing a small mountain of recent data, discerned change afoot. It is a region’s departure from its previous climate to a…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Emma Farge and Mrinalika Roy report on the World Health Organization’s warning that it’s dangerous to act like the COVID pandemic is over.…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Puzzled cats.
Africa’s Population Bomb
The climate emergency grabs all the headlines, obscuring the threats posed by our rapacious over-consumption of dwindling resources and our overpopulation problem. On population growth, Africa is the great unknown…
So Much for Unbridled Optimism
In fairness, I did say it seemed counterintuitive when, yesterday, I wrote a piece on good news about how some were prediciting that the Omicron variant would transform Covid-19 from…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard recognizes that stoking sentiment about being “done with COVID” only increases the likelihood of further transmission and mutation, while Gail…
The Pyrocene
Human civilization depended on many things. We usually consider the development of agriculture as a pivotal factor. However, even before that, man had to master fire. Humankind, alone among all…
America Has Entered the Anocracy Zone
Barbara Walter has made a career out of studying civil war. The UC San Diego professor and author of “How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them,” claims that…
Omicron, a Blessing in Disguise?
To me it sounds counterintuitive but, hey, if it’s true it’s welcome. There’s a lot of talk about the Omicron variant of Covid-19 effecting a transition from pandemic into an…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Katharine Wu examines how the effect of immunity is just one more area where people are seeing profoundly unequal results of the COVID…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Alex Ballingall and Raisa Patel ask why Canada’s federal government seems to have learned nothing from four previous waves of COVID. And…
Too Good to Pass Up. In Ireland, These Three Guys Walk Into a Post Office…
This can’t possibly be true, can it? Gardaí have launched an investigation after two men carried a dead body into an Irish post office in an apparent attempt to claim…