Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Damian Carrington confirms the consensus among climate experts that the outcome of the fossil-dominated COP28 was an utter failure, while Paige Vega interviews…
Bill McKibben
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Mark Sumner discusses the World Health Network’s recognition that the damage from COVID-19 includes harm to people’s immune systems which has made…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Archie Mitchell and Adam Forrest report on the revelation from the UK’s COVID inquiry that now-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was entirely eager…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joseph Puthussery et al. study the feasibility of real-time, location-based air sampling to identify the presence of COVID-19, while Jennifer La Grassa…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Nicolas Banholzer et al. study the dramatic impact of COVID-19 measures in schools – with a mandatory mask policy reducing transmission by nearly…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Oscar Grenfell discusses how Australia is among the countries which has seen a declining life expectancy due to COVID-19 – with a distinct…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Marina Hyde laments Liz Truss’ decision to hit the gas pedal on free money for the people who need it least while…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – William J. Barber and Tope Folarin write that the U.S.’ grim milestone of one million COVID-19 deaths already serves as a searing indictment…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Moira Wyton writes about the growing chorus of experts warning that we’re on the verge of another deadly wave of COVID-19. Shira Lurie…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Trevor Herriot and Cathy Holtslander write about the Saskatchewan Party’s climate position which can’t be treated as anything but implicit denialism. John…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Brian Goldman interviews Raywot Deonandan about the options available to limit the spread of COVID-19 through the coming fall and winter. But while…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Greg Jericho writes that the latest IPCC report confirms that we’re running out of time to avert climate breakdown, but still have…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Antoine Genest-Grégoire, Luc Godbout and Jean-Herman Guay highlight how people are willing to pay more in taxes if they see the benefit to…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Crawford Kilian takes a look at Kurt Andersen’s new book on the collaboration between massively wealthy people and those willing to be…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Sheila Smith examines how private equity is hollowing out the real economy in the name of profit-taking. And Klaus Schwab suggests a “Great…
A Missing Sense Of Urgency
After taking it out of the library twice, I have finally mustered the psychic strength to begin reading Bill McKibben’s Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?…
New column day
Here, on how the costs of approving the Teck Frontier tar sands mine likely include locking Canada into another cycle of public subsidies for a dying oil sector – making…
Canada Stands Indicted
While I most assuredly cannot claim any virtue when it comes to climate-change mitigation (I still fly, probably the greatest environmental sin one can commit), I do understand the gravity…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sabrina Shankman discusses new research showing how the climate crisis will affect today’s youth. And Bill McKibben highlights why we can’t afford to…