British Columbia’s medical officer of health, Dr. Bonnie Henry, thinks the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus could transform the contagion from pandemic to endemic. “The way the virus is…
CNN analyst, Bill Carter, like many of his countrymen, sees his United States broken, perhaps irreparably. Carter has seen America bruised and battered from the Kennedy assassination to the Viet…
Let’s face it, from Tea Partiers to QAnon to fundamentalist faux-Christians to heavily armed thugs who see nothing wrong with storming their nation’s Capitol Building, a lot of our neighbours…
What were they thinking? When the BBC was looking for an expert to provide a little colour commentary on the Gyslaine Maxwell trial, the very last name on their list…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Patrick Wood and Mary Louise Kelly write that we still need to be managing COVID risk budgets to avoid contributing more to…
Leaders of the Middle East may be rewriting their region’s history and, in the process, busting the myths of the West as their benefactor. The decline of American influence in…
Readers of this blog will be familiar with my outsize focus on social cohesion and its role in societal collapse. A friend recently posted a video of an irate American…
It’s been a tough year for British Columbians. Extremes of heat and cold, drought and floods. Heat so intense it killed off billions of sea creatures, the sort that anchor…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andre Picard discusses the need for people to avoid giving up in the battle to protect against the worst effects of a pandemic…
It’s hard to imagine much good coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic but the CBC’s Aaron Wherry sees a distant glimmer of hope. What, asks Wherry, if the pandemic embedded…
Nothing fuels skepticism about the climate emergency than cold snaps of the sort now affecting western Canada. In previous years it’s been the dreaded “polar vortex” that has plagued eastern…
Ornamental cats.
Unforeseen consequences.
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Michela Antonelli et al. study the disease profile of post-vaccination COVID, concluding that full vaccination helps to reduce both the number and…
Some day we might think of Omicron as the friendly Covid variant. English experts confirm that it is both milder and shorter-lived than its predecessors, the Alpha and Delta variants.…
Deutsche Welle has a recap of the global climate emergency in 2021. The summary touches on what I would call the “big ticket” events, the ten most costly climate disasters.…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Marieke Walsh and Carrie Tait report on Canada’s grim milestone of two million COVID cases recorded – even as the medical system braces…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nick Dunne interviews Colin Furness about the impact the Omicron COVID variant figures to have in schools – and the need to…
Let’s put it this way. When called to rise to the occasion this year, Canada’s political leadership – the premiers and the prime minister – failed to distinguish themselves. First…
