NATIONAL HEADLINES 25 MARCH 2021
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We’ve blown it again. Seven weeks ago, channelling a number of renowned experts, I warned that parts of Canada would experience a third pandemic wave if provincial leaders didn’t get off their collective asses and change their failing strategy of yo-yo closures and openings with no regard for exponential growth. If our leaders had acted, Canada could now be COVID-free. Just like the Australians or Taiwanese, we could now be going to concerts and visiting relatives without fear. Our schools and our elders would be safe. Small businesses would be thriving. Instead we find ourselves in a third wave fretting about the slowness of the vaccine rollout (expect more delays) while the variants are filling hospitals in Ontario, Saskatchewan, B.C. and Alberta. Read my piece below. —Andrew Nikiforuk, contributing editor |
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‘Salmon Nation’ Is Linking Builders of a Healthy Economy A new network of practical doers is proving that small (and local) is beautiful, indeed.
By Andrew Nikiforuk. Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Eden Robinson Is a Book Person The author is processing the end of ‘Trickster’ but has ideas for the future: ‘I could write a trashy band council romance.’
By Michelle Cyca. Tuesday, March 23, 2021. US Cruise Ship Bill Could Permanently Hurt Canadian Tourism, Warn BC Liberals With Canada banning visits due to COVID-19 risk, Alaskan senators seek to keep industry afloat.
By Andrew MacLeod. Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Things Had Gotten Cloudy. So I Got Cataract Surgery I didn’t really notice I’d lost sight in my right eye at first. Now I’m wondering: what did I miss?
By Dorothy Woodend. Wednesday, March 24, 2021. A Master Interviewer Shares His Secrets Craig Taylor turned conversations with 200 New Yorkers into an acclaimed new book, much of it polished near Nanaimo.
By Scott Steedman. Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Less Sleep and Burnout Linked to Higher COVID Risk. And More Science News The latest roundup of pandemic findings gathered by Hakai Magazine.
By Brian Owens. Tuesday, March 23, 2021. How to Create an Indigenous Child Welfare System The Splatsin, among the first nation to create its own, will share hard-won knowledge in an upcoming webinar.
By Katie Hyslop. Tuesday, March 23, 2021. We’ve Learned from COVID, Now Let’s Fight Climate Change Ten lessons from the pandemic effort to apply to our next imminent global crisis.
By Michael Clague. Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Please Advise! Did Conservatives Just Solve Climate Change? Pretty clever, their vote of no confidence in science, right Dr. Steve?
By Steve Burgess. Monday, March 22, 2021. Alberta’s War Room Creates a Job ARTIFACT: Artist Mike Kendrick owes a big debt of gratitude to Jason Kenney.
By David Beers. Friday, March 19, 2021. Five Things to Know about Massage Parlour Workers in Canada and Their Rights The Atlanta killings remind us of conditions faced by women of Asian descent working in the industry here.
By Katie Hyslop. Friday, March 19, 2021. Governments Are Making Taxpayers Subsidize Corporate Cleanup of Oil and Gas Wells Companies are responsible for dormant wells, but the public is helping foot the bill.
By Andrew MacLeod. Friday, March 19, 2021. Can We Geoengineer the Climate? Before trying, techno-optimists should be assigned this new book on ambitious ‘fixes’ gone oh so wrong.
By Crawford Kilian. Thursday, March 18, 2021. |
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