Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Philip Bump discusses how partisan resistance to public health measures is making it harder for the U.S. to count on vaccinations to limit…
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Is America Just One Reichstag Fire Away?
There’s growing concern that Red State America, with the US Supreme Court acting in concert, may reverse Roe v. Wade and make it once again almost impossible for women to…
Tapped Out
While southern British Columbia is arse-deep in floodwater, California is tapped out. Water agencies in drought-stricken California that serve 27 million residents and 750,000 acres of farmland won’t get any…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Deborah Gleeson discusses how inequality in vaccine availability is making new variants an inevitability, while Joseph Stiglitz and Lori Wallach write that…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Eric Topol writes that we have the public health tools at our disposal to overcome the Omicron COVID variant if our leaders are…
And a Very Merry Christmas to You Too, Gary
The Globe & Mail’s in-house Grinch, Gary Mason, delivers his own brand of Christmas Cheer. COVID-19 and its mutant iterations will be with us for some time, and possibly forever.…
Will the Arctic Bid Adieu to Snow?
It’s happening sooner, decades sooner, than anyone expected. Rain will replace snow as the Arctic’s most common precipitation as the climate crisis heats up the planet’s northern ice cap, according…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats at rest.
Conversion Therapy and Affirmative Therapy
Now that the LPC government has tabled Bill C-4, it's probably a good time to examine the two terms that are inevitably going to be argued about the most with…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Niels-Jakob Hansen and Rui Mano study the effect of mask mandates in saving tens of thousands of lives in the U.S. alone…
What Are They Playing At?
It’s new fighter time for the RCAF. There were three contenders short-listed: the latest F-18, the SAAB Gripen and Lockheed’s F-35. The F-18 was rejected. Apparently it doesn’t meet the…
No Vaccine, No Airplane Ride.
As of today you’ll need proof of vaccination to board a train or jetliner in Canada. Perhaps spurred on by the Omicron variant, Ottawa has slammed shut the door to…
A Ray of Hope?
The Fraser Valley could receive another 50 mm of rain today but the mayor of Abbotsford seems confident his city is ready for it. Henry Braun told CBC that repairs…
On toxic preferences
From the standpoint of any reasonable observer, there’s reason for outrage that Saskatchewan is one of the provinces pushing to undermine federal standards for water pollution from coal mines –…
Christ On a Crutch!!
You might remember Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas from his former job as White House physician to president Donald Trump. Now Ronny is weighing in on the new Covid variant,…
Is Nature Adding Insult to Injury or Is Santa Bringing Coals to Newcastle?
British Columbia is known for having reliably unpredictable weather. I recall a meteorologist from Environment Canada saying that the accuracy of forecasts more than three days hence was somewhat worse…
Have I Got a Read For You
If you’re wondering why everything has gone haywire you might be interested in this, the October 2020 MIT Technology Review, The Long-Term Issue. Editor-in-Chief Gideon Lichfield offers a hell of…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jill Lepore writes that the COVID pandemic has left no room for doubt that there is such a thing as society reflecting mutual…
Canada’s Biggest Port All Backed Up
A port is really just a dock. It’s a place where cargo is transferred from a ship to a rail car or a flatbed truck for delivery to a waiting…
Nathan Cullen Gets the Bums Rush
NDP MLA Nathan Cullen has been given his marching orders by the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs. Members of the Gitxsan Huwilp Government posted the notice of eviction outside the…