About Next Week
A reprieve. According to the Weather Network 7 day outlook, sodden southern BC will catch a break this week. A day, maybe two of light rain. Nothing that looks particularly…
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Horgan, Trudeau – Get Yer Thumb Out.
Species migration – check. Pest migration and proliferation – check and double-check. Ocean acidification – check. Record wildfires – check. Record heat waves and heat domes – check and check.…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ed Yong writes about the damage to people’s health as care workers flee their jobs in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Kenyon…
There Is No Such Thing As A "True Conservative"
In his column for yesterday’s National Post, John Robson opines that the problems that Jason Kenney and Erin O’Toole are having with the electorate are because they aren’t being “Real…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Attentive cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nora Loreto writes about the need for governments to make COVID management plans which take into account pockets of anti-vaxxers who will…
Prognostications On The War In The UCP
The UCP in Alberta is at war with itself, and the war has broken into the open just before their Annual General Meeting (AGM). What’s the fight over? No less…
Do You Think We Should Tell Him? Climate Change is Real. It’s Now.
Maybe it’s time the Dauphin stopped screwing around with pipelines the world doesn’t need and put that money to better use, such as getting Canada ready for climate change. This…
Canada’s "Winter of Political Discontent."
Even though the Trudeau Liberals eked out a win in the last general election, it was pretty thin gruel. Pollster Nik Nanos writes that, if anything, it was a vote…
The Last Progressive
Historian Andrew Bacevich sees Joe Biden as a progressive successor to Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Lydon Johnson. He also sees Biden as the president who…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Topol writes about the new wave of COVID-19 decimating Europe – and the level of denial required to pretend that the U.S.…
It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity
There’s something out of the ordinary about a monsoon. It’s the deluge that seems to go on and on. Enviro-Can reports that the east side of this island has recorded…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – John Vidal discusses how the results of the Glasgow climate summit represents a failure by our leaders to act seriously in the…
How Are You Supposed to Tell Them Apart?
What does it mean when one “weather alert” blurs into the next? Environment Canada today issued a heavy rain alert for the coast. Some spots could get up to 200…
Get Ready for Tough Talk and Civil Disobedience
George Monbiot writes that, after the failure of COP 26, we’re in a fight for our lives. Now it’s a straight fight for survival. The Glasgow Climate Pact, for all…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Brian Goldman interviews Raywot Deonandan about the options available to limit the spread of COVID-19 through the coming fall and winter. But while…
"Just Transition" – What the Hell Does That Even Mean?
The last thing the world needs in climate agreements today is weasel words such as “just transition.” These modifiers weaken the commitment. They can mean – of be made to…
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LAUREL – Appetite
Talk is Cheap. So is Life.
The COP 26 climate summit was supposed to catapult the 2015 Paris climate accord into reality. It was called the Last Chance Saloon in recognition that the time to take…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Steven Mackay writes about new research showing the different responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by gender – with the men who are disproportionately…