Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Charlie Smith highlights how attempts to minimize the ongoing pandemic have reduced the public credibility of both government and public health officials…
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Benito’s Nephew. Where Did They Get That Idea?
Although some have seen the resemblance. QAnon has been peddling some nonsense about the Mango Mussolini, Donald J. Trump, as the son of legendary general, George S. Patton; nephew to…
Well That Was One Very Brief Life Sentence
Robert Durst will go down in the books as one of the most successful murderers to elude justice in American history. The heir to a New York real estate fortune…
Did You Hear the News? The Seven Hottest Years on Record are the Last Seven Years!!
It makes you wonder what the future holds except that most Canadians would rather have their wisdom teeth out than dwell on that question. The last seven years were the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – David Wallace-Wells writes that the U.S.’ Omicron COVID wave looks far more severe than Europe’s – even if it isn’t being met with…
KH Comes Down Hard On the Evangelical Flock
Canadian-born Katharine Hayhoe has achieved a certain celebrity for being a climate scientist and a devout evangelical Christian. Many see science and belief as diametrically opposed, irreconcilable. She doesn’t. She…
A Sensible, Workable Policy on Flooding.
Flooding is becoming a major problem and it’s not just in the southern US. British Columbia just experienced a crash course in heavy flooding that caused an entire city to…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Trevor Herriot and Cathy Holtslander write about the Saskatchewan Party’s climate position which can’t be treated as anything but implicit denialism. John…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – John Michael McGrath writes that the Omicron wave of COVID may manage to be the most disruptive year, while Alex Press discusses how…
Those Whom the Gods Would Destroy
It’s an ancient proverb. Those whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad. It’s commonly attributed to Euripedes in the 4th century BC. I think most observers, at least…
Joe Hits One Out of the Park
President Joe Biden has slammed “capitalism without competition” as raw exploitation and says he’s gunning for the megacorporations that control so much of the global economy. This is not going…
Musical interlude
Bonobo feat. Jordan Rakei – Shadows
A "Must Have" for the JT Fan Club
For a ridiculously low, low, low price of just $45 (USD) you can have your very own Justin Trudeau bobblehead. The statuary is produced by the legendary National Bobblehead Hall…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Bruce Arthur writes that Doug Ford’s photo ops around empty hospital beds don’t signal any useful accomplishment when they’re not paired with solutions…
Those Who Author Their Own Misfortune Should Accept Consequences
Triage for everyone. Where medical resources are inadequate, triage is the time-honoured way to sort out those who will be treated and those who will not. In Canada, Covid has…
O’Toole – Let’s "Accommodate" Anti-Vaxxers
And he thinks he’s prime ministerial talent? Erin “Wrong Way” O’Toole can’t help but make a fool of himself. Canadians unwilling to be vaccinated against COVID-19 should be accommodated through…
Six Million Canadians Back Trump?
Lawrence Martin writes that a sizeable minority of Canadians, six million, support Donald Trump or his ideology. It’s a number – more than the population of British Columbia – that’s…
Al Jazeera Sees the Faint Echo of 9/11 in 1/6 and Shines a Light on Canada
Al Jazeera sees the 1/6 insurrection on Capitol Hill as a perhaps unwitting effort to complete the job begun by a different gaggle of fanatics on 9/11. Canada also takes…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – CBC News reports that Saskatchewan’s children’s hospital is among the health care facilities with an internal outbreak, while Laura Sciarpelletti talks to…
Biden – Democracy Is At Risk
On the anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, president Joe Biden has said what so many have been saying lately, America’s democratic Republic is in peril. Unlike many of those…