Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sigal Samuel discusses the potential to better target investments toward well-being – though it seems odd to criticize measures of health as a…
bigotry
what i’m reading: delusions of gender: how our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference
When I was in library school, much ink was spilled discussing a “crisis” of “boys not reading”. Countless articles were written, studies were launched, hands were wrung. How do we…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bruce Arthur discusses how last week’s rallies for bigotry are reflective of a broader social illness which is being encouraged by right-wing parties…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Adele Waters writes about the large numbers of UK doctors who are suffering from long COVID as a result of their efforts…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Chris Hedges interviews Matt Kennard about the hostile corporate takeover of democracy. And Adam King highlights how Canada’s oil industry is profiteering at…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jamey Keaten and Seth Borenstein report on the World Meteorological Association’s finding that we’ve just had the hottest summer in recorded history. And…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sascha Pare reports on the growing recognition that methane emissions could trigger “termination” events which see tundra turn into tropical savannah. And Robson…
Complementary Videos
I think the readers of this blog will have no problem understanding why the second video naturally follows the first one: NowThis @nowthisnews ‘He wants to create a kind of…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – John Dearing, Gregory Cooper and Simon Willcock discuss the doom loop which is seeing worse-than-predicted effects of the climate breakdown resulting in vicious…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Steve Turton writes about the dangers of global temperatures which were far exceeding recorded highs even before the start of an El Nino…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nippon.com discusses a new survey indicating that a large majority of people in Japan continue to mask regularly to protect their own…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Andrew Perez highlight how Suncor and other dirty energy giants have poured loads of windfall profits into stock buybacks…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Piers Forster reports on new research showing that both greenhouse gas emissions and temperatures continue to push past all recorded records. Andrew…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Thom Hartmann offers a reminder of the broad-based growth and social progress which is possible when capitalists are required to pay reasonable…
A Lesson For All Of Us
Some ‘religious’ people will undoubtedly find this teaching from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hard to accept. Republicans have good reason to fear this woman, because her ability to cut through their BS…
How Did We Get Here
Let me tell you a story about my early days working for the House of Commons in a non-partisan position serving all Members of Parliament and all Canadians. While we…
How Did We Get Here
Let me tell you a story about my early days working for the House of Commons in a non-partisan position serving all Members of Parliament and all Canadians. While we…
Of Campaigns, Bigotry, and Dog Whistles
So, with UCP leader Danielle Smith regularly playing dodge-em with her own statements in the past, it shouldn’t come as any big surprise that something would come bubbling to the…