Why Local Media Has Failed Us
The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024, released this week, identifies the biggest short-term risk to the planet is from misinformation and disinformation, even above extreme weather events. The…
Destabilizing The Middle East / Persian Gulf
By now, it should be clear that there is a significant effort in progress to destabilize the Middle East / Persian Gulf region. The current round arguably starts with the…
Destabilizing The Middle East / Persian Gulf
By now, it should be clear that there is a significant effort in progress to destabilize the Middle East / Persian Gulf region. The current round arguably starts with the…
Grand Theft Immunity
T. Ryan Gregory asks us to consider the possibility that repeated infection is rolling the dice that leads to Long Covid, which causes immune damage: “If we’re insisting on using…
Oh, Canada: A Funeral Dirge – And A Prayer
Travelling the world recently again, I am struck by the staggering ignorance among the great majority of people in the world, as to what Canada is like today. All of…
Today’s News: Prairie Harm Reduction – "It’s about keeping people alive"
It has taken years for Canadians to understand the concept of harm reduction – which means everything from sunscreen to seatbelts, not just safe injection sites and naloxone – but…
BC Hydro’s call for power is the wrong call
Energy-systems consultant Roger Bryenton wrote an open letter to Premier David Eby, BC Hydro CEO Chris O’Riley, and BCUC Chair Mark Jaccard. It is published here with permission.
Saturday Photo: Seeing Double in the Winter
This photo was taken several years ago, but it seems appropriate today. You have to look at it twice or on two levels anyway. In the reflection of outside in…
My latest: the Iranian connection
The Iranian connection. It’s well-known, or should be, that Iran is the epicenter of much of the chaos in the world, these days. Wherever you look, the Iranian regime’s destructive…
Saturday Photo: Seeing Double in the Winter
This photo was taken several years ago, but it seems appropriate today. You have to look at it twice or on two levels anyway. In the reflection of outside in…
New one. TO.
New one. Toronto scene. Guess where? For sale.
The choice.
If a favorite movie star is found to have sexually assaulted others, do you still watch their movies? If a writer you admire is outed as an Islamophobe, do you…
yet another post about tuna: tuna pasta salad, my current favourite way to eat tuna
You might not think that tuna is a frequent topic of this blog. But I blog about tuna more than you might think.In 2009, after reading about the decline of…
Lab Leak Theory Has Backing
A Freedom of Information request by reporter Emily Kopp is now pointing to the lab leak being more likely than previously thought. From Richard Ebright: “An order line for restriction…
yet another post about tuna: tuna-pasta salad, my current favourite way to eat tuna
You might not think that tuna is a frequent topic of this blog. But I blog about tuna more than you might think. In 2009, after reading about the decline…
For Site C promoters and enthusiasts
Climate change is one of the most pressing global issue in contemporary times, and dams play a substantial role in aggravating it by becoming feeding grounds for methane-producing microbes. In…
Use and misuse of words by journalists and editors
Dan Froomkin — one of my favourite American commentators — offers several suggestions for the New York Times style guide. Here are a few published at presswatchers.org:
Musical interlude
Kelela – Enough For Love
Local governments sitting on piles of cash
In theory, local governments assess property taxes at levels that allow accumulations of surpluses sufficient to fund replacements and major repairs of public infrastructure. My survey of local governments, representing…