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…
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Friday Afternoon Links
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.…
"It’s All Your Fault"
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…
Use TOR to Access the BBC on the “Dark Web”
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…
Why the Brits Ignored How ‘Leave’ Rigged the Brexit Referendum
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…
Give some credit to Jerry Bance for improving the quality of Conservative public discourse
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…
Why Denmark fears militarization of Arctic islands means Canada could soon control almost all of Hudson’s Bay, and other tall tales
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…
BBC Drastically Improves Science Coverage and Debate
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…
The Revolution will Start, With or Without Me….
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…
Russell Brand’s Frustrations
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…
America: A Superpower Of Near-Demonic Dimensions
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
Nigel Kennedy ‘apartheid’ reference to be censored by BBC: Palestine Strings at the Proms
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…
Appeasement at the BBC
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…
Wicked Witch war of words: ‘Has Thatcher bashing crossed a line?’ Well, er… no!
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…
Yikes! U.S. program with remarkable knack for spotting future foreign leaders picks … Danielle Smith
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…
Canada-Israel relationship: BBC survey and ‘Fault Lines’ report
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…
The Goon Show: Tales of Men’s Shirts
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…
BBC: Canada "muzzling" its scientists
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…
Tracking down an internet troll, courtesy of BBC
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…