Doug Saunders

This is the thing to do. Versus Vance’s “western civilization” nonsense, we need to rebuild around the principle that democracy, liberal markets, social justice and human mobility are and have always been universal human values not at all confined to or even originating in the West

If you’re on that corner of Los Angeles, I meant

It’s ok because you’re also in one.

A couple blocks from our former home. You’d not see a drop of moisture there 11 months of the year. Now LA gets all the plagues

If only they had some sort of agency to protect the environment

Oh god I had forgotten. They would choose free will!

CAR RADIO: philosophers and ploughmen, each must know his part…
KID: what’s this right-wing screed?
ME: actually, Canadian rock from the 70s. People were into it.
RADIO: Shake your hand, share the land that they’ll be givin’ away when we all live together
KID: so this is Albanian ‘70s rock?
ME: Well

Yes, and most mass shootings of children are committed using legally owned firearms stored in the home. Australia and UK buybacks dramatically reduced that threat. There’s a national desire to sharply reduce the number of Canadians who “see guns as fun and useful.”

I had trouble understanding why any Canadians opposed a firearms buy-back plan — a simple way to have fewer weapons available to potential mass shooters without further ownership restrictions.

Now I REALLY don’t understand

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.

"The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Goodnight Moon remains popular — a solid introduction to high-modernist verse forms

The Onion is really on form these days

The obvious reasons being prosperity, education and urbanization. It’s not exactly a curse

Sounds about right. I’d like to think the constitution will prevent this

Yes, and those were the books I got read in the ‘70s, and also the books everyone read their kids, including me, in the 2000s, and as far as I can tell are still pretty universal

So, under the proposed laws, you can’t be an American if you’re born in the United States, and you also can’t be an American if you’re born outside the United States to Americans. This, from a regime whose core figures get absolutely hysterical about population non-growth

From my experience those were the same books.

Not hundreds of millions. But we will be in bad need of people to drive growth, and large populations will be rendered unable to migrate due to climate effects. So creating "climate visas" is a win-win answer -- as I've said, there won't be climate migrants unless we create them with policy.

There are definitely kids who don't "read books" but who develop quite high levels of literacy and are evidently reading a lot. I do think there's a worldview and independent subjectivity you get from reading books that makes me encourage older kids to discover them. Most, I think, do eventually

And yes, some of the hottest places in India face serious risks -- I've watched it unfold in Wardha--but those are places you WANT people to be moving out of--shifting to a less labour-intensive/subsistence, better capitalized form of agriculture with good irrigation and weather-resistant varietals

As my work in southern Vietnam and Bangladesh has shown, the effect of climate devastation is to REDUCE international immigration -- climate change makes people less mobile, even if it necessitates relocation. If there are going to be climate migrants, we'll have to create them and move them

Reading Loses Out to Screen Time, says lady whose reportedly excellent books on language I haven't read but who I know intimately from watching her on any one of half a dozen British panel shows almost every week

I guess that's what he meant by "costing too much money"

Rather than "some situations will be unliveable," it's much better to say "some situations will be more expensive and labour-intensive to reverse, requiring a lot of employment and growth to fix." Ecological reserves are on the verge of growing rather than shrinking; doing so is an opportunity

Opinion: Some thank yous for helping us through a day of horror In the absence of information, we have the ability to be grateful for the work so many good people are doing

The better way to respond to an unfolding national tragedy

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Man U owner says what now

one thing that comes across in these clips is that bondi is totally out of her depth. just an absolute lightweight. barely sentient.

Dear Gen Z: You’re not watching the world end – you’re about to build a new one Despite older generations’ doomsday prophecies and belated apologies for the state of the world, today’s young people are now on the brink of leading the greatest era of rebuilding and growth this cen...

Here it is again for your reading aggravation. Significantly, the aggravated voices have all been people over 30, the folks who’ve said they pity their kids or even won’t have any because they mistook an opportunity for a curse

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e33036f...

My “Letter to Generation Zed” essay was a response to exactly this kind of thing. We shouldn’t pity our children and grandchildren; we should envy the exciting and productive project of rebuilding the ecological and democratic world they’ll inherit, much as the children of 1946 did

CBC BC is doing a solid job here.