Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Jennifer Sandlin discusses a new analysis showing how COVID-19 infections lead to numerous other types of infectious diseases, while Devika Rao writes about the…
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Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Jennifer Sandlin discusses a new analysis showing how COVID-19 infections lead to numerous other types of infectious diseases, while Devika Rao writes about the…
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bill Weir writes a poignant letter of apology to his son about the state of the planet being left to future generations.…
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Bill Weir writes a poignant letter of apology to his son about the state of the planet being left to future generations. -…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Kate Raworth discusses the need to orient ourselves toward measures of progress based on well-being rather than growth – both due to its…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Novinite surveys the numerous countries facing unprecedented heat warnings as the most extreme effects of the climate crisis hit earlier in the…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Leslie Sattler discusses new research showing that carbon concentrations are continuing to increase by record amounts. David King writes about the immediate and…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brian O’Boyle discusses how Ireland’s choice to act as a tax haven for the ultra-wealthy has done nothing to help its citizens. And…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Oliver Milman discusses a new study showing that the costs of a climate breakdown roughly approximate what it would take to fight…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your long weekend reading. – Max Fawcett laments that anti-vaxxers and science denialists have managed to control public policy choices in the midst of a pandemic with…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Damian Carrington offers a glimpse of what would be in store if we continue to spew carbon pollution as projected and end…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ian Welsh discusses how institutions under the thrall of neoliberal ideology are incapable of achieving any end other than the further enrichment…
Gil McGowan, who quit NDP leadership race yesterday, was the only candidate to make an issue of the party’s relationship with workers
It was obvious the writing was on the wall when Gil McGowan summed up his pitch at Saturday’s NDP leadership forum: “If I don’t raise another $50,000 soon,” he told…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jessica Wildfire comments on the elite panic which has seen information suppression become the norm in order to maintain the status quo for…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thom Hartmann discusses how conservative policies and rhetoric both kill people even looking only at homicides and suicides. Cory Doctorow points out how…
"strange fruit" documentary: a nexus of the past and present, and a personal sense of loss
We recently watched “Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song,” a documentary we found on Kanopy. Kanopy’s catalogue includes a vast number of documentaries, many of dubious quality; we’re skeptical…
"strange fruit" documentary: a nexus of the past and present, and a personal sense of loss
We recently watched "Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song," a documentary we found on Kanopy. Kanopy's catalogue includes a vast number of documentaries, many of dubious quality; we're skeptical…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Robin McKie warns that the next pandemic is likely to develop from a flu virus, while Augie Ray offers a reminder that…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – The Climate Change Performance Update’s latest update shows Canada tumbling to the bottom of the world’s development countries in climate performance – even…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Emily Eaton, Andrew Stevens and Sean Tucker discuss how the corporate fossil fuel sector is blocking workers from pursuing sustainable jobs as part…