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…
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"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.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Gary Mason writes that Saskatchewan and Alberta are tragically showing the rest of the country what a COVID-19 disaster looks like. CBC…
Lovelock’s Legacy
The venerable centenarian, James Lovelock, inspired an almost cultish following with his Gaia Theory. He proposed that organic life interacted with the inorganic Earth causing Earth itself to mimic organic…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Monique Beals reports on Anthony Fauci’s recognition that attacks directed against him are based solely on denialists’ hostility toward the truth, while Mike…
Covid Claims Colin Powell
A son of immigrants who rose to become the first black general to chair America’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell has died of complications of Covid-19. Not surprisingly, Powell…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Hannah Devlin asks why the UK is accepting a thousand lives a week as the price of incompetence in responding to the…
A Solid Majority of Canadians Have Had Their Fill of First-Past-the-Post Elections
A new Angus Reid poll finds three out of five respondents were dissatisfied with FPTP in the last election. But, hey, what do they want – democracy? “For many, the…
The Greenhouse Gas We Can’t Control
When we think of climate-killing greenhouse gas we usually focus on carbon dioxide, CO2. Some add methane, CH4, to the mix. It’s a far more potent but shorter lived gas…
Musical interlude
The War On Drugs feat. Lucius – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
"Creeping Normalcy" in the Plague Age
Britain is experiencing a new wave of Covid cases, 40,000 per day. Yet it hasn’t caused much reaction from the public. It sounds like the legendary stiff upper lip, the…