Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t. Andrew Weaver’s Truth.
When it comes to the climate emergency and greenhouse gas emissions, truth can be hard to find. U. Vic. climate scientist and former head of the B.C. Green Party, Andrew…
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Hey, Isn’t This the Same Guy Who Sold Us Into Neoliberal Servitude?
It’s easy to remember Brian Mulroney for his environmentalism, his principled stand against Apartheid South Africa, the fight against acid rain and restoring the ozone layer. That has to be…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Yasmine Ghania interviews Nazeem Muhajarine about the Saskatchewan Party’s choice to produce misleadingly low COVID-19 case numbers by stifling testing. And Kelly Provost…
Damn, There’s an Idea! Why Didn’t We Think of That?
You might remember when Sammy Yatim was put to death on a Toronto streetcar by a gun happy cop, James Forcillo. Even though Yatim was alone, isolated on the streetcar…
Chomsky – It’s Time the Vaccine Hesitant Cleared Out.
Noam Chomsky has had it with the anti-vax crowd. It’s time for them to clear out. MIT professor emeritus and political activist Noam Chomsky said he believes that while unvaccinated…
So Many "Firsts"
The climate crisis has brought us a number of “firsts” and it’s just getting started. We’ve seen wildfires that create their own weather. How about “firenadoes.” Tornadoes of fire. We’ve…
Do We Really Need a Professor to State the Obvious?
I laughed when I read the CBC’s summary of Canada’s 4-step climate policy over the last quarter century. 1. Set an ambitious goal 2. Largely maintain the status quo 3.…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Playful cats.
United Nations Report – We Blew It
Grim news from the United Nations that we’ve squandered our opportunity to avert climate catastrophe. From The Guardian. Tuesday’s publication warns that countries’ current pledges would reduce carbon by only…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – CBC News reports on the public health officers begging Saskatchewan’s provincial government to stop the spread of COVID-19 as our health care…
The Lies We Tell Ourselves
As a bankruptcy lawyer I saw plenty of debtors. Those that bothered me most were people nearing retirement age with grim prospects of being able to re-establish themselves and young…
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…
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