Saturday, 19 June 2021

CBC

Sets new diversity requirements for independently produced programs.




Say Cheese

China office uses AI to only let smiling workers enter building.



Expect the Unexpected From the Delta Variant

There’s no way of knowing how bad things will get in the U.S. In a way, that’s a luxury.



Australia Takes Wine Dispute with China

To World Trade Organization.



The Self-loathing of Britain’s Elites

Brexit was fuelled by the disdain of our intelligentsia.





Paul Valéry and the Mechanisms of Modern Tyranny

All modern forms of government presume an objectification of their citizens.



Cutting Honours Programs and Keeping Smart Kids Down Proves the Silliness of 'Inclusivity'

Most educators strive to further student excellence. Absurdly, the Vancouver School Board is doing the opposite.



Friday, 18 June 2021

What Trudeau’s Spin Doctors Won’t Tell You About Vaccine Dose Delays

Government went ahead with rationing in spite of warnings about variants — including highly contagious Delta.



History As End

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past.



The Emergence of the Delta Variant

Why it’s a ‘game-changer’ for Covid recovery around the world.





London University to Let Non-White Students Defer Essays for ‘Racial Trauma’

Without evidence.



How the CCP and Its Engagement With Organized Crime

Have left Canada ‘in deep trouble.’




IKEA and the Con of Woke Capitalism

Apparently it’s fine to mistreat your workers, so long as you don’t advertise on GB News.



Big Finance Will Make Serfs of Us All

All that is on offer to the young is a lifetime in rental accommodation.



Tuesday, 15 June 2021

In the Time of Cholera

How the U.N. created an epidemic -- then covered it up.



Largest Incursion Yet

Dozens of Chinese warplanes enter Taiwan airspace.



 

Trudeau Embarrasses Canada On The World Stage

Again.



N.Z. Chapter of Greta Thunberg’s Climate Movement Cancels Itself for Being White, Racist

School Strike 4 Climate's Auckland chapter is disbanding after criticism it was ‘just an extracurricular activity for upper-class (white) kids.’



Hajdu Says Handing Over Winnipeg Lab Documents

Has ‘national security’ implications.



The Mystery Behind a Photo of a Logged Old-Growth Tree

You might think that British Columbia’s oldest forests are protected from commercial interests. You’re wrong.



Social justice Warriors Say Birds Are Racist

Demand changes to species names.




Fallen Giants

A before and after look at the Caycuse River watershed on Vancouver Island.



Sunday, 13 June 2021

Rewiring Your Life

A radical therapy based on eye movements can desensitise painful memories, heal hurts and aid transformation at warp speed.



Exit the Fatherland

Shaking off Nazism was no simple matter: the work to create a plural and peacable Germany was prolonged and painful.



How Equality Slipped Away

For 97 per cent of human history, all people had about the same power and access to goods. How did inequality ratchet up?



Philosophy’s Lack of Progress

For centuries, all philosophers seem to have done is question and debate. Why do philosophical problems resist solution?



This Ragged Claw

It is a crab; no, a worm; no, a wolf. Early physicians weren’t entirely wrong to imagine cancer as a ravenous disease.



Canada Received Pfizer COVID-19 Doses Earlier Than Planned,

But paid large premium.



G7 Summit

China says small groups do not rule the world.