Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Matt Gurney questions how it is that Ontario (like other provinces) is continuing to avoid any meaningful planning in its pandemic response, with…
Fossil Fuels
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Grace Blakeley discusses how corporate handouts represent a major contributor to the concentration of wealth by the richest few. And CNN reports on…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tonda MacCharles reports on David Naylor’s justified call for an inquiry into Canada’s pandemic response. And Peter Walker’s report on the rapid…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Marcin Osuchowski et al. highlight the importance of updating our understanding of COVID-19 rather than presuming it behaves the same way as previously-studied…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Graham points out that what’s being labeled “vaccine hesitancy” reflects little more than abject denial about the realities of a deadly disease.…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Timothy Wilson reports on the emerging revelations of Enbridge’s paying to harass environmental activists. And Jeremy Appel offers the background facts as to…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Susan Michie, Chris Bullen, Jeffrey Lazarus, John Lavis, John Thwaites, Liam Smith, Salim Abdool Karim and Yanis Ben Amor highlight the desperate…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about Canada’s contributions to the evidence showing how COVID-zero strategies have produced better results in terms of both health…
On fossilized assumptions
The comparative cost of different power options in the real world: The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephanie Taylor reports on the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s warning that we can’t afford to loosen the province’s COVID-19 rules – which of…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Damian Carrington reports on Antonio Gutierres’ needed message that we can’t afford to keep waging war on our natural environment. And Bruce…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – As we lay the groundwork for a COVID recovery and energy transition, Heather Scoffield comments on the importance of making sure resources go…
Denmark throws down the gauntlet
Denmark has taken another important step in its shift to a green economy. Earlier this month, the Danish parliament agreed to cancel licenses for oil and gas drilling and phase…
Jason Kenney’s ineffective COVID-19 strategy mirrors his failing response to world demand for cleaner energy
Memo to United Conservative Party issues managers: Your boss will need to take some time today away from defending his COVID-19 response to attack the New York State pension fund…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Marco Ranaldi and Branko Milanovic study the relationship between inequality of inputs and inequality of outcomes – finding in particular that countries with…
Denmark: No More Oil from the North Sea
The largest oil producer in the European Union has banned all new oil and gas exploration in their territory. Denmark follows France and New Zealand in the banning of new…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Thomson Reuters reports on the latest UN research showing that planned fossil fuel production far exceeds what we can afford if we want…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk discusses how a “COVID zero” strategy has been successfully executed elsewhere – and could be achieved in Canada as well.…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Bruce Arthur writes that Doug Ford’s already-pitiful response to COVID-19 is getting worse as Ontario opens up businesses in the midst of a…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Fred Hahn writes about the importance of government investment in times of crisis to make up for what people can’t afford – or…