BoJo Hedging His Bets
For a guy notorious for over-selling and under-delivering on everything from Brexit to the pandemic, Brit p.m., Boris Johnson, is hedging his bets on the upcoming Glasgow climate summit, COP…
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Is This Something We Just Can’t Do?
The latest greenhouse gas numbers are in, just a week before the opening of the COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow. It’s not a pretty picture. Levels of climate-heating gases…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Sarath Peiris discusses how Saskatchewan shouldn’t be anything but embarrassed by Scott Moe’s utter failure to look out for public health in the…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ed Yong discusses how the field of public health has been marginalized by the false assumption that the task of keeping people…
White Power, White Privilege, White Nationalism – What About White Christianity?
We’ve heard of white power, white privilege and white nationalism. What about “white Christianity.” I stumbled across a great website by Erna Kim Hackett, a Korean-American sometimes Christian pastor who…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Adam Hunter reports on the increasingly public campaign by Saskatchewan doctors to have public health taken seriously in the midst of the COVID-19…
He Was Right Then. He’s Right Today.
Paris, 2015. The leaders of the community of nations agreed that we had to unite to avert climate catastrophe and that meant keeping global warming to no more than 1.5…
Another Reason to Defend the Salish Sea from these Petro-Pimps
Mother and Calf There’s terrific news out of the Salish Sea. It’s the waterway between southern Vancouver Island and the mainland, Washington State’s Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de…
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Nothing But Thieves – Futureproof
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Canadian Medical Association calls for Scott Moe to finally reinstate public health rules to prevent Saskatchewan’s already-catastrophic fourth wave of COVID-19 from…
"Weather Bomb" Headed for Vancouver Island
We’re not strangers to powerful squalls and extreme winds but what’s heading for Vancouver Island over the next few days could be biblical. Report authors note that the first storm…
The Road to Glasgow – Reading Between the Lines
It was just a few days ago when Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, wrote a stirring piece that, if the world went on a wartime-type footing, putting the climate crisis as…
The Road to Glasgow – Cracks Emerge
What were you expecting, some global Kumbaya moment? Ten days and counting to the opening of the COP 26 climate summit and details about efforts to subvert the drive to…
Alberta Running on Empty
Alberta, or at least the southern part of the province, is looking at a future of water insecurity. Climate change and the retreat of glaciers are the main culprits. Canada’s…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rod Nickel offers an international view of Saskatchewan’s spiraling COVID-19 crisis, even as Scott Moe clings to his delusional minimization of the…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Carol Off interviews Andre Picard about the cultural factors and policy choices that have led to an avoidable fourth wave of COVID-19 in…
The West May Get the Wildfires but the East Gets the Smoke
By now we’re all familiar with the massive wildfires that have become a recurring disaster along the Pacific from Mexico to Alaska. This summer we saw the town of Lytton,…
The Road to Glasgow – 10 Days and Counting
COP26 opens in Glasgow on October 31. The real story, however, may lie in what happens over the next ten days. That’s when we’ll see how the big players align…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cluttered cats.