The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells is a book about the not-distant future: what will happen to the planet as climate change continues. I waited a long…
Climate change deniers have clearly set back human progress and delayed us in reducing emissions, obviously that’s no good. What is good is that they barely exist anymore. The science…
English journalist George Monbiot published a Twitter thread on January 28 that resonates powerfully with me. The contents are reproduced…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard recognizes that stoking sentiment about being “done with COVID” only increases the likelihood of further transmission and mutation, while Gail…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Cory Neudorf asks that Saskatchewan not play Russian roulette with the Omicron COVID variant. Rahul Suryawanshi et al. find that any theory of…
New buildings constructed in New York City are not permitted to connect to natural gas for any reason. This makes NYC the largest city in the USA to do so…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Charlie Smith highlights how attempts to minimize the ongoing pandemic have reduced the public credibility of both government and public health officials…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – David Wallace-Wells writes that the U.S.’ Omicron COVID wave looks far more severe than Europe’s – even if it isn’t being met with…
Small nuclear reactors don’t make any more economic sense now than they did back in the summer of 2020 when Alberta Premier Jason Kenney took to the Internet to tout…
Assorted content to end your week. – Bruce Arthur writes that Doug Ford’s photo ops around empty hospital beds don’t signal any useful accomplishment when they’re not paired with solutions…
There was a time when Jason Kenney pretended to be the modern-day manifestation of Peter Lougheed, notwithstanding his conviction that Lougheed’s programs were akin to “neo-Stalinist make-work projects.” He’s since…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Marieke Walsh and Carrie Tait report on Canada’s grim milestone of two million COVID cases recorded – even as the medical system braces…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk distills the four myths which have resulted in Canada’s political leaders plunging us into multiple avoidable waves of COVID spread.…
An illustrated map of the city of Omelas, the setting of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, a work of short fiction by science fiction writer Ursula K. Le…
Originally published by the Vancouver Sun By Vaughn Palmer: Many NDP members upset at government’s ‘impossible balancing act’ on gas pipeline. A notice to clear the road from RCMP sits…
Assorted content to end your week. – Alejandro Jadad studies the social murder traceable to politicians’ flawed responses to COVID-19 and other known causes of sickness and death, while Tara…
Calling bioenergy “carbon-neutral” suggests that emissions are instantaneously offset, when in reality it can take trees decades to absorb all the carbon emitted by burning wood, say critics…
Despite massive disruption to the entire province, John Horgan’s government has made no change to its policies of promoting fossil fuels with lax regulation and multi-billion dollar industry supports. It…
For decades, flood risk studies written by specialists have accumulated on shelves in Victoria. One government after another failed to prioritize actions recommended by experts. They rated other expenditures as…
Dense mangrove forests provide an ecological boost wherever they are found because they protect both land and sea species. They are really ecosystems unto themselves with nuance and each with…
