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Canada played a key role in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but few Canadians are aware of it. In August 1943 Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King invited … Read more CANADA’S ROLE IN SUPPORTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
This is the decisive decade for humankind and other species. We tackle dire trends now. Or we face a bleak future in which our constricted pandemic life now becomes the … Read more Making the Impossible Possible: Coalitional Movement Politics in the Decisive Decade
Deep-time self-identity can help in dealing with nuclear disarmament. Including one’s DNA information as part of one’s self-identity extends one’s life line into the deep time of evolution. Genomics has … Read more Deep-time self-identity in nuclear disarmament
Review of Too Much and Never Enough, How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L. Trump The title and subtitles of Mary L. Trump’s 2020 … Read more The World’s Most Dangerous Man
(Image: Brisbane Anti-Racism Protest – 6 June 2020 – Andrew Mercer) To usher in systemic change, the left faces the challenge of not only reconciling racial inequities with class solidarity, … Read more Racism, Class Solidarity and Systemic Change
Canada’s proportion of COVID-19 deaths in long-term care double the average of other countries, study shows: The proportion of long-term care deaths ranged from less than 10 per cent … Read more COVID-19 Update 16, July 6
(Photo by Sebastian Voortman from Pexels) “Trump, Bolsonaro, Legault”. “La loi 21 est racisme.” Two signs side by side at a Montreal demonstration against racism tell the story in Quebec. Racist, deceitful, … Read more Racism Update
🇨🇦 Ontario’s nursing homes have had 22 years to do safety upgrades. COVID-19 reveals deadly cost of delay. Hardest hit nursing homes are still operating at 1972 structural safety … Read more COVID-19 Update 15, June 23
With the COVID-19 mortality rate nearly 6 times higher than the rest of the country (586.7/M vs 102.2/M), what has gone wrong in Québec? From the beginning of the … Read more COVID-19 Update 14, June 8
“Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots. There has been a huge upswell of Twitter bot activity since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, … Read more COVID-19 Update 13, May 29