Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Is Mark Carney's extended honeymoon period starting to sour?

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Mark Carney has been granted a generous, even unprecedented, honeymoon period as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and as Prime Minister...

Potential investors in Spacex should be very wary

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The IPO for Elon Musk's Spacex is expected to be the biggest ever , and will convert it into an almost $2 trillion enterprise. However, ...
Monday, May 25, 2026

The other disease outbreak that no-one is talking about

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With all the attention on hantavirus and ebola outbreaks, the devastating measles outbreak in Bangladesh has gone all but unnoticed. What m...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

US crusade against Cuba makes no sense

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's usual function in the US government is to try to settle things down after yet another wild outburst ...

Remember COVID? It's still with us

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I happened to read a letter in the newspaper that gave some rather striking statistics about the death rates from COVID-19 in various countr...

A new stream of reliable renewable energy: osmotic power

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Renewable energy is still enjoying a period of robust expansion, despite the best efforts of Donald Trump (or, arguably, because of them). B...
Saturday, May 23, 2026

Michelle Smith's exercise in disingenuity

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Alberta politics is weird. Hell, Alberta is weird. Quebec likes to think of itself as a "distinct society" (or at least that was t...

Toronto's World Cup hosting not as rosy as portrayed

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Toronto and Vancouver were sold a bill of goods when the two Canadian cities decided to bid for hosting some of the FIFA World Cup 2026 game...