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…
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Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Fiona Harvey and Jonathan Watts report on Antonio Guterres' warning at the start of the COP30 climate conference that we can't afford more…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Catarina Saraiva and Jaewon Kang warn that the U.S. economy is a Jenga tower in which pieces needed to support the middle class…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The UN Environmental Programme's Emissions Gap Report examines the painfully slow progress toward reining in global warming even as the technology to eliminate emissions…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jonn Elledge discusses how the right in the UK (like in the U.S. and Canada) is building its public messaging around explicit racism and…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- David Lurie writes about the Trump regime's Potemkin populism - as well as the increasing speed with which his fabrications are coming undone. Sarah…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Daniel Ziblatt writes about the dismal history of past efforts to collaborate and negotiate with authoritarians. And Stuart Benson discusses how Mark Carney's lack…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Don Moynihan concludes that the U.S. has lost any pretense to being a functioning democracy. And Zachary Beau discusses how Donald Trump is…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Charlie Angus discusses how MAGA is recognizing the effects of Canada's resistance - so long as our leaders don't sell us out. - But…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Qasim Rashid offers a reminder that the U.S.' deficit and debt are the result of a political system controlled by and for the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Charlie Angus comments on the futility of giving up substantial interests in the hope that a new trade deal with the Trump regime…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Sachi Kitajima Mulkey, Claire Brown and Mira Rojanasakul report on new research showing that the climate breakdown is only accelerating as the powers that…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Simon Tisdall discusses the fallout from the Trump regime's choice to launch a war in Iran - with its culture of denial doing…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jonathan Watts talks to Genevieve Guenther about the need to keep talking about the many climate tipping points in front of us - along…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Damian Carrington reports on a new warning from scientists that we're on pace to exhaust humanity's carbon budget in the next two years, while…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- A.R. Moxon discusses our role in observing and shaping the world around us with the help of the analogy of a submarine whose…
Alberta, tribalism, luck and oil
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Pipeline myths
Some Albertans are unhappy that their guys lost the federal election, so they’re doing a... The post Pipeline myths first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Alberta Politicians should ask one question: Who is going to buy natural gas after 2035?
Fortis BC has been advertising an interesting programme. The programme is a rebate that assists their customers in transitioning to a new “dual fuel” heat pump system. The idea is…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- David Suzuki and Ian Hanington write about the importance of a courageous approach to climate change policy, while Nature's editorial board discusses the desperate…