China’s Bhutan Land Grab

Stealthily but steadily, Beijing is reportedly building whole towns across internationally recognized borders in a new and dangerous global power play.

Even the Arabs

Are tired of Hamas.

Pentagon Marches

Towards AI taking the kill shot.

The Disintegrated States of America

Andrei Martyanov is in a class by himself.

 

The Pandemic Speaks

Ten timeless truths.

All Biden Needed To Not Screw Up The Presidency Was Stay In His Basement

He failed.

More Than 140 Refugees in Australian Detention Set to Be Resettled in Canada

Sixty-six people who’ve spent up to seven years in detention on PNG and Nauru and 78 onshore, plus their family members.

Will Canadians Ever Have Enough

Of being weak and getting walked all over?

Decolonising Shakespeare

The problem with that. 

The Right Angle

On Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler.

'It's Just the Weirdest Place'

The wealth gap in this Tahoe town is extreme. 

Nice Guy Joe

Biden is a phony—and a mean one, at that.

Everything Is Broken

And how to fix it.

How US Military Detects Sarcasm

With artificial intelligence.

The Artist in the Machine?

Meet ‘Ai-Da,’ the AI robot debuting her work in London’s Design Museum.

New Zealand Court Rules

Pfizer vaccine rollout unlawful.

After Europeans Arrived

More than half of Caribbean lizards and snakes disappeared. 

Five Arrested at Fairy Creek Old Growth Blockade

‘Protracted stand-off’ predicted. Barred journalists ask court to rule RCMP ‘exclusionary zone’ illegal.

BC’s Cynical Attack on Old-Growth Forests

John Horgan’s alliance with corporate and union logging interests is stalling protection for remaining ancient trees.

In the latest Gaza War

Israel has acted like a moral beacon. 

China and Artificial Intelligence

China has made technological strides in the AI field. Should that be viewed as a threat?

Meet the Master River Pilot

Who conquers the Mississippi every day.

Ottawa School Board Hosts

All-ages ‘drag storytime’ and ‘decolonizing gender’ event.

Justin Trudeau Says We Must Act Quickly to Prevent 'Fourth Wave',

Announces investment in vaccine plant for future.

The Tragedy of Prince Harry

He will come to regret his conversion to wokeness.

Tariffs on Canadian Softwood Lumber

Hitting US homebuyers hard.

The Islamic Republic’s War on Israel

Hamas is a weapon, and the Palestinians are pawns.

America

Build your own.

 

Trudeau’s COVID App Was Collecting Your Data All Along

It is not known what information was obtained from those who downloaded the app.

The Filing Cabinet

The filing cabinet was critical to the information infrastructure of the 20th-century. Like most infrastructure, it was usually overlooked.

80% of All Ocean Plastics

Come from 1,000 river hotspots in Asia and West Africa.

When Did Believing in Biological Sex Become a Thoughtcrime?

A law student could be kicked off her university course for saying ‘women have vaginas’.

Fungus Full of Psychedelic Drugs

Causes Indiana Brood X cicadas’ butts to fall off.

Ancient Human Faeces Reveal Gut Microbes of the Past

A study of ancient human faeces sheds light on how microbial populations in the gut have changed during the past 2,000 years.

Sierra Leone Sells Rain Forest

 To World’s worst polluter, China.

Liftoff in Brownsville

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is putting an impoverished South Texas community on the map.

Ugliness

Defines the mood.

Hamas Hostility

Turkey remains the main supporter.

 

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

 Immigration, Islam, and Christopher Hitchens...

How Hamas Became So Deadly

Funded and equipped by Iran, it could overwhelm Israel’s Iron Dome.

More Illegal Logging by VicForests

Is putting Melbourne water catchment at risk.

China’s ‘Game Plan’

Has Pacific islands in its sights.

Indefensible

Biden’s muted response to Israel.

The Most Important Story on Earth

An insider’s guide.

The Miracle of the Commons

Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight.

The Seed of Suffering

The p-factor is the dark matter of psychiatry: an invisible, unifying force that might lie behind a multitude of mental disorders.

Life Goes Deeper

The Earth is not a solid mass of rock: its hot, dark, fractured subsurface is home to weird and wonderful life forms.

The Slow Death of the New Forest

The New Forest today is treated as a playground to be bent to the whims of the visitors, rather than a reserve that must be cared for.

Joe Biden Is More of a ‘Master of Disaster’’

Than Jimmy Carter.

Trudeau Government tTains Diplomats to Believe

That ‘objectivity’ and ‘individualism’ are ‘white supremacist.’