The Need to Grow
When I taught civics and we discussed Canada’s immigration policy, that we typically take in about 250,000 newcomers each year, but over 600,000 apply, many students would suggest we need…
climate change
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Emmett Macfarlane discusses how the stakes in Alberta’s election are no less than democracy and the rule of law – as Danielle Smith…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Antoine Flahault et al. offer a reminder that we can’t afford to be complacent about an ongoing COVID pandemic which continues to…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Fiona Harvey reports on the World Meteorological Organization’s warnings that we’re more likely than not to breach 1.5 degrees of global warming over…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Karl Nerenberg writes about the Parkland Institute’s research showing how privatization has undermined Alberta’s health care system. And Mitchell Thompson warns that…
Climate disasters may be unstoppable
A disaster strikes. The news reaches every home for a few days, perhaps a week. A debate erupts over whether climate change is to blame. Victims are profiled. There’s a…
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…
1.5° in the Next Five Years
I’ve been to many marches and protests for the environment. Most recently, the call to action was around changing policies enough to cut GHGs in half by 2030 in order…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – David Slater and Charles Rusnell write about the unconscionable lack of any meaningful discussion of the climate breakdown in Alberta’s provincial election even…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Omar Mosleh discusses the growing damage being caused by repeated wildfires in Canada, while David Wallace-Wells writes that there’s no escape from…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jakub Hlavka and Adam Rose examine the $14 trillion just in direct economic costs of COVID-19 in the U.S. – making clear how…
Global warming—news old and new
I got up this morning in semi-darkness even though the sun had risen at 5:45 a.m. and the forecast was for sunny and warm. I looked out my window and…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Lisa Young writes about the stark difference in how Alberta’s main party leaders approach the role of women in politics and society.…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Alex Hemingway offers a reminder of the urgent need for a wealth tax – and the opportunity to fund important social priorities…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matthew Oliver, Mark Ungrin and Joe Vipond write about the overwhelming evidence that masks offer protection from airborne viruses – even as…
Climate change—we make progress
Each spring, Canada submits The National Inventory Report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The report holds Canada accountable to targets it is committed to under the…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Gregg Gonsalves writes that rather than spurring the development of more effective public health mechanisms, the COVID-19 pandemic has instead seen massive…
Quiet Comprehending
A pretty song for our times form Bo Burnham: Female Colonel Sanders, easy answer, civil warThe whole world is at your fingertips, the ocean at your doorThe live-action Lion King,…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Arielle Dreher reports on the findings of the U.S.’ COVID Crisis Group that the U.S. fell short of the mark in coordinating…
Planting seeds of destruction
Instead of moving away from climate damaging energy sources, both Liberal and NDP governments of British Columbia have accelerated fossil fuel production through direct and indirect subsidies.