Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Kevin Jiang reports on the reality that COVID-19 has resulted in a crash in life expectancy (which has already been stagnant due to…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Kevin Jiang reports on the reality that COVID-19 has resulted in a crash in life expectancy (which has already been stagnant due to…
Assorted content to end your week. – Camille Bains reports on Dr. Mona Nemer’s warning that long COVID represents a mass disabling event with potentially devastating social and economic consequences.…
Start at about the 55 second-mark for an uncomfortable look in the mirror. We should all feel a shudder of recognition and realize our collective responsibility is hardly limited to…
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has launched on the dark web to help those in authoritarian regimes access international news. To access the the site one only need the Tor…
The Leave campaign had its thumb on the scales in the Brexit referendum. Through various devices it was a rigged outcome. Now the national crime agency is investigating some of…
ILLUSTRATIONS: Is it time to give Jerry Bance a break? After all, he’s raised the tone of Conservative discourse in Toronto, and raised our national profile abroad. (Image grabbed from…
If we just listened to Stephen Harper and the BBC, what a wonderful world this would be! Below: Catherine the Great, USAF Gen. Philip Breedlove. Last Wednesday, the British Broadcasting…
The BBC is finally doing something that all media organizations should do – don’t let crazy people derail important debates. For this entire millennium mass media organizations have invited reality-denying…
Russell Brand’s Epic Interview With BBC’s Jeremy Paxman Just Might Start A Revolution (VIDEO) The Huffington Post | By Ryan GrenoblePosted: 10/25/2013 4:11 pm EDT Many have seen Russel Brand’s…
Although I do not subscribe to the ‘tactic’ of refusing to vote, much of what comedian Russell Brand says in this BBC interview with Jeremy Paxton is worth listening to…
So says Noam Chomsky in this 2003 video produced for the BBC. I find little with which to disagree in his analysis: Recommend this Post
On August 8 the BBC Proms featured the Palestine Strings in company with world renowned violinist, Nigel Kennedy, and members of his Orchestra of Life. Palestine Strings is made up…
Whenever I travel, especially when a Canadian television station is not available, I tend to tune into the BBC, which generally practises the kind of hard-hitting journalism that the CBC…
The Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz. Below, Ezra Levant in an orange wig with a can of Orange Crush mocks Jack Layton’s funeral. RIP or…
Canada’s Official Opposition, the New Democrats, prefers to see Barack Obama re-elected as U.S. President rather than Republican challenger Mitt Romney. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair told reporters in Montreal on…
Wildrose Party Leader Danielle Smith prepares to set off on her 19-day American tour. Future America-friendly leaders may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Ms. Smith for real. With tout…
With discussion of a possible boycott of goods from Israeli settlements heating up this week, the question is often asked why Canada is taking such a marked pro-Israel stance. Really…
Before Monty Python, there was The Goon Show. I love the way that when Spike Milligan does anything, he breaks the rest of the Goons up. This is their penultimate…
This may not be news in Canada but good to see the news is spreading abroad. Prof Thomas Pedersen, a senior scientist at the University of Victoria, said he believed…
Ever wonder what kind of person leaves all those disgusting, ill-informed comments on blogs and news sites, mostly it seems at least in North America, in support of the Conservatives…