Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Adam King discusses several new studies showing that wealth inequality is only continuing to balloon in Canada. And Jared Walker and Silas Xuereb rightly…
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Air Quality Reports Remain Wrong in Saskatchewan
Last year I asked what I thought was a rhetorical question, but it turns out that MP Kram’s office has responded to my concern. The problem remains a year later,…
Leadership 2026 Candidate Profile – Avi Lewis
What We KnewWhile Lewis’ campaign narrative has normally been framed in terms of his family history in the NDP, the aspect of his track record that strikes me as more…
129 Year Old Lost Film Found
The earliest example of a film featuring a robot was found in a library. It’s a bit degraded at the very end, but it’s a short film, and appears to…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Ana Marie Cox discusses how Jeffrey Epstein was able to amass influence and commit atrocities by sharing the discriminatory and dehumanizing values with…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Victor Pickard writes about the multiple layers of media capture which have collectively undermined access to accurate information across U.S. sources. - Ajit Niranian…
The Moreness of Everything
The title of this post comes from a subhead in Thomas De Zengotita’s book, Mediated: How the Media Shape the World Around You (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005) in which the author…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Brian Beutler writes that the events of Super Bowl weekend show how Donald Trump - even with the support of most of the…
Plague Update: POStmedia Aims To Kill
The Gazette published an absolute turd of an article. Here are some of the lowlights: “Outside of a health-care institution, people aren’t really thinking about transmission,” he said. “In a…
2 Men Attacked By President
Here are two famous men attacked by the Orange Menace. I was impressed by this interview, especially given that he is facing unfounded charges. The goons doing this to journalists…
Videos of Late
Lately I’ve seen some videos that I want to see again later, someday.
WHO Knows?
https://x.com/i/status/2014729568549273982 The World Health Organization knows the world is running low on healthcare workers, but isn’t doing the bare minimum to keep the existing ones, and new ones safe. At…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Gaby Hinsliff highlights the need for the UK (and the rest of the world) to cut ties with an entirely unerliable U.S., while John…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Reich discusses how Donald Trump is a threat to civilization (in the form of any social order other than one based on…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Thomas Zimmer discusses how the Trump regime is attacking concept of treating people as equals, while Greg Sargent highlights Stephen Miller's role in trying…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Cathy Young and Cas Mudde each discuss how the Trump regime's "national security strategy" is based on pushing cronyism and bigotry over democracy and…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Jonathan Last discusses how the Trump regime is carrying out campaigns of murder based on known lies with both the purpose and…
Andrew Coyne in Regina
4 minutes to the Minifie Lecture with Andrew Coyne. Auditorium is nearly full in the wings too.#YQR #cdnpoli— Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy.bsky.social) 2025-11-28T01:28:07.284Z
Cringe as they may be, don’t assume Canada’s radical far right is going to fail, warns high-profile social media commentator
On her Instagram account, Rachel Gilmore describes herself as “your least favourite person’s least favourite journalist.” Judging from the reactions her aggressively progressive commentary gets on the various social media…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Lane Brown examines how key elements of cognitive ability may be degrading - including due to constant exposure to personalities selected for their vociferous…