Thursday, May 14, 2026

Brightly painted wind turbines would save many burd deaths

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I've posted before on ways to make wind turbines less destructive of birds, bats, etc . (I've also posted on the fact that wind turb...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Does Donald Trump type out his own social media posts?

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I was trying to figure out how Donald Trump found the time and the energy to make all those unhinged late night Truth Social posts. I mean h...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

The next Super El Niño is due this year

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Batten down the hatches, we're in for a wild ride this year, weatherwise. We're expecting the strongest ever El Niño weather pattern...
Monday, May 11, 2026

Erskine-Smith's hubris may have derailed his whole career

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I live in the Beaches-East York riding of Toronto. It's a reasonably well-to-do area, but reliably left-wing politically. That can trans...
Saturday, May 09, 2026

Labour council losses laid at Keir Starmer's feet

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Votes are still being tallied after Britain's local authority elections, but it seems clear that it has been a bit of a bloodbath for th...

Israel uproots thousands of Palestinian olive trees

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The state of Israel has never had a good image. From its very beginnings, it has been militaristic, combative and uncompromising. Since its ...
Friday, May 08, 2026

Say "hello" to hello

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I heard something on the radio yesterday that shocked me. Well, nothing new there, you might say. But this was a quirk of the English langua...

This is not the next pandemic

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People can be forgiven for having panicky flashbacks to the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak six years ago (yes, six years!) But, rest as...