Is America Turning Us Into Nervous Nellies?
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…
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Even For the Beebs, This Is Bizarre. Dershowitz and the BBC.
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…
Thursday Morning Links
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…
Left to Their Own Devices or Learning to Thrive Without America
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…
Karen – The Handmaiden of Decline
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…
BC Closes Out the Year With Another Climate Blow
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…
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…
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…