Wednesday Morning Links
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…
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Aaron Wherry in Search of a Silver Lining
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…
Okay, There’s the Heat. It Had to be Somewhere.
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…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Ornamental cats.
Justin Didn’t See This Coming When He Decriminalized Marijuana.
Unforeseen consequences.
Tuesday Morning Links
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…
A Ray of Hope
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.…
The Year in Climate. What We See and What We Don’t See.
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.…
Monday Afternoon Links
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…
Sunday Afternoon Links
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…
A Lot of Canada’s Leaders are on Very Thin Ice.
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…
And a Very Merry, Extremely Rare, White Christmas from the Wet Coast
I have exchanged greetings with friends and family from Ottawa, Stratford, Tottenham, Simcoe, Wheatley and Leamington today. They all painted the same story of dreary rain and damp cold. Now,…
Musical interlude
Agnes – Here Comes the Night
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Katherine Wu, Ed Yong and Sarah Khang write that the Omicron COVID-19 wave is seeing governments make the same familiar mistakes in an…
What a Year
It’s been a record-setting year in many places. Here in British Columbia we’ve had our hottest year ever recorded, our wettest year on record and, now, it looks like we’ll…
Is Omicron in Your Near Future?
The headline in the National Post speaks for itself: “It looks like we’re all going to catch Omicron.” Tristan Hopper’s column begins with two facts: 1. One in ten Canadians…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk distills the four myths which have resulted in Canada’s political leaders plunging us into multiple avoidable waves of COVID spread.…
Story of the Year, Canada, 2021 – What’s Your Pick?
I think a poll would find the persistent Covid-19 pandemic would win as Canadian Story of the Year for 2021. It’s been the most constantly disruptive event and it affects…
Did We Get Caught Unprepared – Again?
Did Canada’s health authorities – federal and provincial – leave us yet again unprepared? Were they slow in rolling out the booster shot deemed essential to thwart the deadly effects…