Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Simon Lewis discusses how Western Canada’s heat dome and associated catastrophes offer a warning that nobody is safe from the effects of a…
climate change
This Isn’t a Heatwave — It’s a Dying Planet
Our Civilisation is Boiling Alive in the Fumes of its Own Waste umair haque Follow Jun 30 · 7 min read Image Credit: ABC11 Screenshot It was my lovely…
Bring out the dead…
Ignoring climate change in the short term has benefits both to individuals and to organizations. Individuals do not have to make changes in the cars they drive, the products they…
Ontario Electricity VIII: Now also going backwards on climate
There have been a number of important developments in the Ontario electricity sector since my last update when I summarized my arguments in front of the Ontario Legislature against the…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frances Mao discusses how the Delta variant has exposed weaknesses in Australia’s COVID response, while Madline Holcombe notes that it’s causing the U.S.…
Something Torrid This Way Comes
Unless you have been living under a rock (or more likely, the cool of your basement), you will know about the weather catastrophe occurring in the West, and, to a…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Lauren Pelley surveys the latest on COVID-19 – including the reality that viral variants and different affected populations are resulting in it presenting…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Patricia Treble discusses how the rise of the Delta COVID-19 variant is making it vital to hit higher vaccine targets than previously…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – ABC News reports on the risk that the Delta COVID-19 variant can be spread through “fleeting” exposure rather than prolonged proximity. Daniel Boffey…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bryan Eneas reports on the discovery of 751 unmarked graves near a single residential school in Saskatchewan. And Samantha Beattie reports on…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Canadian Press reports on new Leger polling showing that over two-thirds of Canadians want to see COVID-19 protections remain in place…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – As Jason Kenney and Scott Moe rush to slash public health protections including mask mandates, Gavin Leech et al. study how important…
321 years into a 246 year cycle
Canada’s federal government gave $4.5 billion to Kinder Morgan for Trans Mountain after the owners had difficulty financing expansion of the pipeline. By 2020, the new construction budget had soared…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – CBC News reports on the expert response to deaths caused by the spread of the Delta COVID-19 variant in a Calgary hospital –…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jennifer Yang and Kenyon Wallace discuss how the Delta variant makes the COVID-19 pandemic far more dangerous than it had been before…
Chris Potts Nails It
Nailed it! In his latest blog post, former Town of Collingwood employee, Chris Potts writes about our council’s ill-conceived plan to hire a “climate change specialist” to add to the…
BC NDP, guardians of the environment… the corporate environment
The origin story of Stand.earth—previously ForestEthics, successor to Clayoquot Rainforest Coalition—illustrates how little has changed in recent decades. NGOs and concerned citizens are ever the underdogs when competing with governments…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jessica Elgot, Aubrey Allegretti and Nicola Davis report on the UK’s delay in lifting coronavirus restrictions as it battles the Delta variant.…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Tom Parkin calls out Jason Kenney’s defence of genocide and its architects in an attempt to keep his party’s white supremacist base…
Climate action pretence
Governments impose carbon taxes ostensibly to deal with climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But effectiveness is limited since the taxes are not applied broadly or at levels sufficient…