Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Sarah Zhang writes that the three factors which will determine the path of the COVID pandemic over the winter are our own immunity,…
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You’ve Picked a Fine Time to Leave Us, Lucille
It’s an old song. Canada’s first major climate calamity* arrives and the Greens are nowhere to be found. Annamie Paul has only just handed in her key to the executive…
What a Novel Idea
“Infrastructure/resilience/climate change” Every cloud does have a silver lining. The natural disaster that is today’s southwestern British Columbia has got officials speaking the words they kept to themselves for decades.…
Musical interlude
Men I Trust – Tree Among Shrubs
Return of the Talking Head
I appeared on CTV’s News at 5 with Matt Young today, around 24:00 in this show. And of course, there were a few points I didn’t make in the process,…
A Useful Reminder
In the beginning of human civilization, wildlife made up most of mammalian life on Earth. By comparison, humans were almost insignificant. Today, in this Anthropocene, our man-made geological epoch, mankind…
Rittenhouse Walks
The jury into the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting of three protesters has aquitted him on all charges. One more straw on that old camel’s weary back.
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Guy Quenneville reports on Dr. Saqib Shahab’s warning that Saskatchewan needs to improve its vaccination rates and minimize social mixing to avoid a…
Does NAFTA II Have a Future?
The trilateral trade summit in Washington has the oracles speculating that free trade among Mexico, the US and Canada may be less than healthy. Trudeau’s failure to persuade Americans to…
Poor Old Erin
The Old Toole thought he’d put malcontent senator Denise Batters in her place when he turfed her from the Conservative’s national caucus. Only Ms. Batters senate colleagues aren’t like-minded. They’ve…
Do the Math
When you’ve got just four highways and two rail lines and they’re all washed out in a single storm event, severing access to millions of your citizens and your largest…
Next Week is Another Day
“I am not concerned about today’s rain. What I’m concerned about is next week, and what’s coming.” That’s what is on the mind of Henry Braun, mayor of the flooded…
On priorities
While I’ve pointed out the absurdity of yet another round of anti-coalition scaremongering, it does seem clear that any discussion between the NDP and the Libs will instead involve a…
Funny, Isn’t It? What Goes Through Your Mind When Your Parachute Malfunctions?
What do you do when the old “oh, they’ll think of something” line doesn’t work any more? Judging by what I’m reading online, especially what’s appearing on supposedly progressive blogs,…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Gregory reports on a new meta-study showing which options have been most effective in controlling the spread of COVID-19 – with…
Andrew Nikiforuk Sums Up
He is perhaps Western Canada’s greatest journalist and prolific author, an expert on such things as energy politics and climate change. Today he was invited to present this year’s Southam…
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…
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…