Tag: Columnists
Dyer: Deadly Kazakh chaos looks like a coup to me
Two questions about recent events in Kazakhstan. First, was last week’s slaughterhouse battle between “20,000 bandits” and the regime’s police in Almaty, the country’s biggest city, really just a quarrel among thieves? And second, why did Russian troops get involved? A special Chatham House report last month found the family and associates of Nursultan Nazarbayev, […]
Sims: The best we can do now is send kids back to school with their shots
As much as I miss my children’s elementary and high school days, all the worrying surrounding Monday’s school reopening has me more than a little thankful that my baby birds are now young adults.
Sims: Quebec’s fine for COVID unvaccinated may be ethical, but . . .
Just when you thought the well had run dry of ideas to convince the vaccine-resistant to roll up their sleeves, enter Quebec.
Sims: Local deaths highlight need to get COVID-19 booster shot
My heart sunk a little bit when the health unit reported four more people in Middlesex-London died from COVID-19 during the weekend.
Baranyai: We must fight ‘Indigenization’ of Canada’s prisons
As Ontario braces for a “tsunami” of COVID-19 hospitalizations driven by the highly contagious Omicron variant, it’s hard to focus on much beyond the immediate fallout of cancelled medical procedures, staffing crises, and yet another scramble to support online learning.
Klassen: What will dominate the news in 2022?
Hardship and conflicts in economics, politics and the pandemic will be tempered by progress and stability
Pearson: We still gather at malls, but for more reasons than shopping
Canada’s first year-round shopping centre — considered so because of its covered walkways — opened in Hamilton in 1955, just as I was arriving from Scotland at five years of age.
Dyer: Nuclear power missing piece of post-fossil-fuel puzzle
At midnight last Friday, half of Germany’s remaining nuclear power stations closed down. The remaining three (of an original 17) will shut down on Dec. 31 this year, and Germans no longer will have to live with the fear of a nuclear (power) holocaust. What’s more, all the lost energy from the nuclear plants will […]
Sims: With Omicron everywhere, one-off rapid tests are of limited use
Remember when toilet paper was the Tickle-Me-Elmo of the early weeks of the pandemic? Move over T.P. The hunt is on for rapid antigen tests.
SIMS: Everyone from prime minister on down pleads with unvaccinated
I haven’t been on board with all of the federal government’s pandemic response, but I did agree with the prime minister Wednesday when he was asked what more could be done to convince unvaccinated people to get their COVID-19 shots.