When listening to some journalists or some on the political “Right”, you will hear an oft-repeated argument: why do Canadian governments spend so much money on the automobile industry? Andrew…
Fifty years ago, Canada made its first tentative but still monumental step towards adopting the metric system. On April 1st, 1975, Canada officially switched from Fahrenheit – the only temperature…
The new Republican regime in Washington is waging a veritable war on science. This isn’t... The post Science under threat first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
“Death by Bureaucracy Leads to a Society on the Brink” “A deliberate practice of denying a certain kind of care”, like not controlling infectious diseases in healthcare in Canada? That’s…
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Jo Lauder, Tyne Logan, Fran Rimrod, Alex Lim and Stacy Gougoulis discuss how a largely-forgotten 2009 heat wave is the deadliest natural disaster…
New ZEV registrations are up in every reporting province from 2023 2nd quarter to this year’s second quarter. People who say that “interest in EVs is decreasing”, are simply lying…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Charlie Warzel warns that the level of disinformation saturation in the U.S. has reached the point of organized violence and sabotage. H. Colleen Sinclair…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Darius Snieckus reports on a new International Institute for Sustainable Development study finding that Canada is still spending three times as much subsidizing fossil…
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Tarique Niazi discusses some of the geopolitical implications of the intensifying climate crisis. Aaron Whetty offers a reminder that the joint effort by…
Science did not fare well under the Harper government of 2006-15. It eliminated the long-form... The post Evidence for Democracy (E4D) first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Olympians thrown into the meat grater. Grinder? Whatever. Many of them are despicable, and amoral; willing participants in the senseless slaughter. Athletes and coaches who have confirmed infections are not…
As a kid, and to this day I am envious of those who experienced this pioneering era of space exploration. https://x.com/JohnKleinRegina/status/1814701568320807202?t=4av0bJxbsZKeGFgZpB2ZhQ&s=19
It’s back. Eliminated in 1998, thanks to vaccination, measles is making a comeback.This highly-contagious disease has been spreading around the world and there are now dozens of cases in this…
A trailblazer who eschewed politics, identity and recognition in favour of a tenacious pursuit of life’s secrets Like many women of her age, Dr. Connie Eaves’s career in science was…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Alan Urban writes about the reality that establishment institutions are working on normalizing civilizational collapse – as well as the need to fight…
The Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm, or world view, of atomistic, dualistic, mechanistic reductionism, is a very recent, 400 year old delusion, a recent blink of the eye, and is now crumbling as…
There’s an effort underway by Conservatives and Fossil Fuel companies to suggest that fossil fuels are “sustainable”. This is an attempt to rebrand fossil fuels as non-harmful, when the reality…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ryan Meili discusses how a blinkered focus on austerian “efficiency” and exit strategies prevents the development of care systems capable of meeting…
It’s good to see some of the millennia-old illusions about history being slowly peeled away. To speak of the Roman Empire as, “the world’s greatest killing machine” is refreshingly honest.…
But the Liberals are wrong about the solution. Their betrayal on electoral reform has given the CPC’s PP power over them. They could be working collaboratively to implement things the…
