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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…
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…
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…