Political Inertia
Whenever our next election rolls around, I'll be ready - ready not to vote for the Conservatives. Ready not to vote for the Liberals. By default, I shall, in all…
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Happy Thanksgiving
To new and long-term readers, the best of the season. H/t Greg PerryAnd this warning seems appropriate for the times in which we live:Suddenly, Canadians aren’t so different from AmericansWe…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Steve Hanley discusses how a climate breakdown would result in the destruction of any other social and political goals which might otherwise be achieved.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Bob Berwyn discusses new research showing that existing climate models may underestimate the tendency toward extremes in water levels - including both floods…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Ajit Niranjan reports on the extreme flooding in numerous cities in central Europe as a harbinger of the effect of a climate breakdown in…
Puzzling But Instructive
My three-year-old granddaughter has developed a fondness for jigsaw puzzles, usually of the 48-piece variety designated for children. Given my own spatial limitations, I have worked slowly with her on…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Paul Rogers discusses the imminent threat of more extreme weather events, shortages of the necessities of life and increased division and inequality if the…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Richard Sandbrook makes the case for a Green New Deal as combining the ambition and the feasibility needed to halt climate change. And Stewart…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Fiona Harvey reports on the UN's warning that fossil fuel propagandists are engaged in a massive disinformation campaign to keep us spewing carbon…
Nix The Fix
I have written previously about Pierre Poilievre's fondness for aphorisms, phrases that encapsulate a simplistic solution to complex problems. While reading this morning's paper, I came upon his 'solution' to…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett lament that inequality continues to get worse fifteen years after they warned of its myriad harms. And George Monbiot…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Thom Hartmann discusses how the selfish preferences of billionaires are almost invariably winning out over the public interest in the U.S. due in…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Thom Hartmann discusses how the selfish preferences of billionaires are almost invariably winning out over the public interest in the U.S. due…
Choices
When the next federal election comes, there are those who will vote with a certitude we all should be wary of. Because they are sick of Justin Trudeau, many will…
Choices
When the next federal election comes, there are those who will vote with a certitude we all should be wary of. Because they are sick of Justin Trudeau, many will…
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.…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Lauren Chadwick reports on the WHO’s findings that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a multi-year drop in life expectancy and undone a…