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,…
Agnes – Here Comes the Night
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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 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…
Democracy is in decline around the world. Where it was strong it remains strong – with one glaring exception. Canada (98) again did very well in the ratings, no surprise…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ben Cohen points out some of the ways the Omicron variant deviates from what we’ve come to assume about COVID-19. And Colin Horgan…
Leveled-up cats.
Richard Raycraft reports on the absurdity that the Libs’ latest excuse for a pandemic support (the Canada Worker Lockdown Benefit) is available to precisely zero Canadians even as the Omicron…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ben Cohen writes that we shouldn’t take a negative rapid test as license to stop taking every possible precaution to limit community…
The Washington Post editorial board is urging president Joe Biden to take off the gloves in the fight against Covid-19 and, especially, the Omicron variant sweeping the nation. They want…
You could say the United States military has gone to the dogs. It’s a top down problem. It’s a contagion that doesn’t stop at America’s borders. In today’s Tom Dispatch,…
I have an American cousin. Poorly educated, profoundly ignorant, a real Trump guy. Like a vivisectionist’s dog, he lovingly licks the hand wielding the scalpel. Like many of his Facebook…
In the last two weeks I’ve been struck by a growing awareness that something serious is underway in Antarctica. Three friends who have rarely, almost never, said much about the…
The now standard narrative is that the developed countries are to blame for the climate catastrophe. Some think that’s an unduly broad brush. The case for taxing the rich wherever…
