Who wins?
The recent devastating fighting in Israel has people, friends, communities, faiths, divided; leaders, opinion-makers, nations united. As I try to get my mind around both the violence and the reaction,…
The recent devastating fighting in Israel has people, friends, communities, faiths, divided; leaders, opinion-makers, nations united. As I try to get my mind around both the violence and the reaction,…
When you name a person in your last will to be the Executor of your Estate, that person sometimes needs to also apply to the Court to be appointed formally…
Since 1990, Canada’s emissions have decreased by a modest 3.1 tonnes per person. However, when we look at the distribution of emissions, we find that the bottom 90% reduced their…
Why do some healthcare professionals still insist that herd immunity will work despite visual evidence to the contrary? A nicely explainer came out in Journal of Infectious Diseases March 2022:…
We almost had it. When CERB was introduced to help people at the start of the pandemic, some people who hadn’t been to a dentist in decades finally got their…
Manitoba Premier-designate Wab Kinew. Photo courtesy the Winnipeg Free Press. There are good reasons to celebrate the NDP’s win in the October 3 provincial election in Manitoba. Especially important is…
Ontario residents have come to regret the lack of education of their premier. He is obviously not the only conservative politician these days who neither knows nor understands this basic…
It’s a true Alberta mystery. The notorious Grassy Mountain open-pit coal mine proposal on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in southern Alberta near the Crowsnest Pass keeps getting…
Balance he says. pic.twitter.com/elGKwknjSg — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) October 17, 2023 SaskPower gave a lecture at the university about transmission and generation planning.
Bordered cats.
People gather around the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes on the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in central Gaza after they were transported to Shifa Hospital. Photo by Dawood…
Reading The New York Times, as I do every morning (the world’s best newspaper), I have encountered a number of articles on the current hostilities in Palestine. I couldn’t help…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Arijit Chakravarthy and Martha Lincoln offer a reminder that COVID-19 isn’t about to go away just because we’re refusing to deal with…
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If masks are a choice, then shouldn’t being protected from a virus also be a choice?? The freedom to go maskless is butting up against the freedom from getting infected,…
Canada’s federal new democrats met in Hamilton the other day. It was a weekend of glad-handing and denial. It was a weekend of conviviality and self delusion. It was renditions…
In 2019 the federal government enacted the Impact Assessment Act which regulated “designated projects” (think: oil sands, mining and other major projects within provincial boundaries). The Kenney government tagged it…
“I can’t understand why you and your government would want to be responsible for a system that brings harm to children,”says Heather Kuttai, while resigning from the Saskatchewan Human Rights…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Somasetty Suresh examines the symptoms associated with long COVID, while Elizabeth Cooney reports on new research hinting at the depletion of peripheral serotonin…
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Port Hardy was especially meaningful this year. Not quite as many people joined the walk as in the previous two years, but there…