Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Doug Cuthand writes that all spin to the contrary, the #flutruxklan has nothing to do with freedom. Rachel Gilmore reports on the its…
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Burning question
Where could Scott Moe have possibly developed the idea he’s entitled to dictate what questions the media is allowed to ask?
A Weekend Chuckle (Truck-Free Entertainment)
As China struggles to mount a Winter Olympics, here’s a dandy alternative – the Average Games.
Ice Road Truckers
It was bitter cold that broke Napoleon’s army in Russia in 1812. It was the same murderous cold that broke Hitler’s army 130 years later. Today, Ottawa is blanketed in…
Jerry Falwell Jr. Comes Clean, Tells All to Vanity Fair.
He was a crown prince of the evangelical movement but he tells Vanity Fair it was a scam. “BECAUSE OF MY LAST NAME, PEOPLE THINK I’M A RELIGIOUS PERSON. BUT…
Musical interlude
Cannons – Shadows
A Great Photo
A Great Lakes bulk carrier heading downriver past Detroit on its way to Lake Erie.
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…