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The Campaign for Canadian Accession to the UN’s Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons
Written and translated by Pierre Jasmin, member of LES ARTISTES POUR LA PAIX, joined by two other members of Pugwashgroup.ca, Phyllis...
Science for Peace
Feb 16, 20215 min read
Commanding Hope: A Review
Thomas Homer-Dixon, Commanding Hope, The Power We Have To Renew A World In Peril, Alfred A. Knopf, Canada, 2020. Defining the concept of...
Science for Peace
Jan 31, 202118 min read
The Pandemic Within
Strangely, reading Albert Camus’ The Plague (1947) during the pandemic did not depress me (further). Instead, I felt exhilarated. Yes,...
Science for Peace
Jan 5, 20213 min read
Battling hate
Hate drives war and war drives hate. Hate, abetted by legions of liars, human and virtual, leads to governments acting, to different...
Science for Peace
Dec 23, 20201 min read
Why Biden must address the nuclear threat
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ doomsday clock, which symbolizes how close the world is to global catastrophe, is presently at 100...
Science for Peace
Dec 8, 20204 min read
Walkerton and Long-Term Care Facilities: Avoidable Tragedies
Mike Harris was the Premier of Ontario at the time, and at the start, the town affected was St. Thomas, ON. As the Premier stated, his...
Science for Peace
Nov 18, 20203 min read
Child Emergency: Souls in ICE*
Reeling from the U.S. election, I hope that the first order of business is reuniting families and restoring children in ICE custody to...
Science for Peace
Nov 11, 20206 min read
Chandler Davis: Science for Peace in Perspective
October 29, 2020 by Chandler Davis When Eric Fawcett gathered a nucleus of colleagues into a new activist organization, it was natural...
Science for Peace
Oct 29, 20203 min read
CANADA’S ROLE IN SUPPORTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Canada played a key role in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but few Canadians are aware of it. In August 1943 Canadian...
Science for Peace
Oct 28, 20206 min read
Making the Impossible Possible: Coalitional Movement Politics in the Decisive Decade
This is the decisive decade for humankind and other species. We tackle dire trends now. Or we face a bleak future in which our...
Science for Peace
Oct 4, 20209 min read
Deep-time self-identity in nuclear disarmament
Deep-time self-identity can help in dealing with nuclear disarmament. Including one’s DNA information as part of one’s self-identity...
Science for Peace
Jul 27, 20209 min read
The World’s Most Dangerous Man
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...
Science for Peace
Jul 24, 20207 min read
Racism, Class Solidarity and Systemic Change
(Image: Brisbane Anti-Racism Protest – 6 June 2020 – Andrew Mercer) To usher in systemic change, the left faces the challenge of not only...
Science for Peace
Jul 9, 20207 min read
COVID-19 Update 16, July 6
Canada’s proportion of COVID-19 deaths in long-term care double the average of other countries, study shows: The proportion of long-term...
Science for Peace
Jul 6, 20204 min read
COVID-19 Update 15, June 23
🇨🇦 Ontario’s nursing homes have had 22 years to do safety upgrades. COVID-19 reveals deadly cost of delay. Hardest hit nursing homes...
Science for Peace
Jun 23, 202011 min read
COVID-19 Update 14, June 8
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?...
Science for Peace
Jun 8, 20207 min read
COVID-19 Update 13, May 29
“Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots. There has been a huge upswell of Twitter bot activity since the...
Science for Peace
May 29, 20206 min read
The Coronavirus Pandemic: Evidence from Virology and Immunology
Here are some thoughts as I look at some of the available information in pursuit of some usable understanding of the COVID-19-causing...
Science for Peace
May 23, 20203 min read
COVID-19 Update 12, May 22
Geronticide report: 23:00, May 19 – Canada deaths 6152, LTC resident deaths 5299 – 86.1% Thanks to the Ontario Hospital Association for...
Science for Peace
May 22, 20205 min read
Genomic Time and the Immediacy of the Nuclear Threat: A Stark Contrast
Our genes are made up of parts that can be traced back 300 000 years. Some will feel a bit constrained if limited to the approximately...
Science for Peace
May 18, 20202 min read
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