Coyne Mulls Chaos on Our Border. Is Anschluss In Our Future?
Andrew Coyne accepts that chaos is coming to the United States, if not at this year’s mid-terms, then by election year 2024. Coyne doesn’t presume to predict what the United…
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Jimmy Carter Fears for America’s Democracy
Jimmy Carter reflects on the insurrection of last January 6th and the perilous road ahead . One year on, promoters of the lie that the election was stolen have taken…
This Is Sounding All Too Familiar
The Weather Network just posted its latest national update for January and February. The cold snap that has hammered the West is expected to relocate to central Canada. You’re welcome,…
This One is Different. Omicron Reshapes the Workplace.
While the media has focused on Omicron’s limited lethality compared to earlier Covid variants there’s much more to it than ICU beds and fatalities. Our medical officer of health, Bonnie…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Madhukar Pai and Manu Prakash discuss how artificially limited vaccination is allowing COVID variants to get the jump on any attempt to protect…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Grasping cats.
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. The Climate Crisis as Satire.
In 2006 we considered Idiocracy over-the-top satire. Today some people think it’s a documentary. Today we’re churning out movies that satirize climate breakdown. Which films kept you entertained over the…
George Monbiot, Film Reviewer
The Guardian’s venerable eco-scribe, George Monbiot, has branched out into movie reviews. Singular. He’s only reviewing the one, DiCaprio’s latest, “Don’t Look Up.” For George, Don’t Look Up is art…
Women in Peril?
Hard to believe. Women undergoing surgery might do better with a woman’s hand wielding the scalpel. Women who are operated on by a male surgeon are much more likely to…
Hydrogen Bikes. Yamaha and Kawasaki Collaborate on New Motorcycle Engine
This is already sounding too good to be true. Two of Japan’s top motorcycle makers are developing a hydrogen-fueled engine for future bikes. Hydrogen is seen as a clean fuel…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Shree Paradkar laments the folly of making the same mistakes over and over again throughout the course of a continuing pandemic, while…
On voluntary efforts
The past few days have seen the emergence of an effort to build up self-reporting capacity to fill in where provincial governments are choosing to be wilfully blind to COVID…
Rumours of Coups
I’m getting weary of the recent deluge of articles and op-eds about secessionism in America, nascent civil war, violent unrest. Then I came across a piece in today’s Guardian written…
The Buffalo Commons
In a world riveted to violent natural catastrophes – hurricanes and tornadoes, floods and droughts, heatwaves and wildfires – slower moving calamities are easily overlooked. Canadians don’t dwell on the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CTV reports on Alberta Health Services’ recognition that tens of thousands of the province’s residents project to suffer from long COVID. Alex McKeen…
Everyday America
Somber talk for New Years Day. The editorial board of the New York Times paints a picture of a republic in peril. Jan. 6 is not in the past; it…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ryan Cooper highlights the reasons to be careful about any COVID minimizers seeking to declare the Omicron variant as too mild to…
Tick-Tock. One in Three Americans Say Violence Against Their Government Can Be Justified.
Pretty heavy stuff, the idea of taking up arms against your government. Actually you can find some form of armed resistance be it a full-blown civil war, an insurgency, a…
Four Science Types on What We Learned in 2021 Across the West.
2021 was a pivotal year for the climate emergency. The change came in the form of hammer blows that smashed the west – drought, killer heat domes, wildfires, massive flooding.…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your year. – Alex McKeen discusses the implications of the more transmissible Omicron COVID variant – though contrary to the plans of your local murderclown, we…