Author and columnist, Andrew Nikiforuk, presented this year’s Southam Lecture at U Vic on November 17th. Among other things it was a survey of events and practices that have left…
It’s a sad truth but today political parties vie for power for the sake of holding power, not for the chance to serve the country. It’s been that way for…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Miquel Oliu-Barton et al. study the effects of different government approaches to COVID-19 – and find that elimination strategies have produced far superior…
It seems there’s been a cluster of some 40 earthquakes off the coast of Oregon. Seismic activity does get noticed out here where the locals are warned of a 9+…
Holiday cats.
I had the misfortune to wind up in a dodgy (seedy?) highschool in southern Ontario in the 60s. When I returned to begin grade 11, there was a new sheriff…
Boeing grew out of war. Its engineers designed and launched the legendary B-17 Flying Fortress. There followed the B-29, the B-47 and the also legendary B-52. On the civilian side,…
Former World Bank chief economist and Nobel laureate, Joe Stiglitz, has made the study of inequality his life’s work. It was the subject of his PhD thesis. I have some…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matt Gurney writes about what continues to be a woeful response to COVID in Ontario among other provinces, while Jason Herring reports…
Conservative extremism isn’t easy. It’s exhausting although it’s always rewarding when you can tilt an entire country’s political keel. You know it’s working when leaders such as Florida governor, Rick…
Could there be a Litmus Test for democracy? Many years ago, the CBC’s Patrick Watson produced a multi-part series on democracy, what it meant to this people or that and…
(Remember, when you do the hand thing, keep the hand tilted a bit) They’re your typical radical right outfit – anti-immigrant, anti-vaxx, white nationalist/supremacy. And now the German government might…
Chris Hedges thinks there are a few people missing at the Ghyslaine Maxwell trial: Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, hedge-fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, former New Mexico Bill Richardson, former…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Supriya Dwivedi writes about the Groundhog Day-style loop we’re trapped in due to a pandemic which is being allowed to continue and evolve.…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Bruce Arthur examines what the spread of the Omicron COVID variant figures to mean for Ontario. Rachel Emmanuel reports on the National…
You know, a bad faith Twitter report will only result in me starting up the blog again. You sure that’s what you would like because I will unleash hell on…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian writes that even if the Omicron variant of COVID-19 doesn’t prove as dangerous as it appears, it should serve as a…
Chief Justice John Roberts says he doesn’t want the “Roberts Court” to be remembered as a political institution. Too bad, John. That horse has left the barn. Just as Congress…
The Knocks feat. Powers – Classic
An open letter signed by upwards of a hundred Canadian academics calls for the RCMP to leave Wet’suwet’en lands and not come back. The Wet’suwet’en lands are sovereign territory. The…
