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COVID-19 Update 11, May 16
A COVID-19 outbreak at the White House. Oy Gevalt! Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns stay at home order setting a precedent for other...
Science for Peace
May 16, 20203 min read
NATO, Canada and Nuclear Disarmament
Photo by Pixabay from Pexels In 2001 Erika Simpson, professor in Political Science at the University of Western Ontario,...
Science for Peace
May 13, 20205 min read
COVID-19 Update 10, May 10
This update is dedicated to my friends Jean Smith and John Valleau, life long workers for peace and justice. UN News, April 14: “Hatred...
Science for Peace
May 10, 20204 min read
COVID-19 Update 9, May 5
Mel Hurtig, Maude Barlow, Tommy Douglas, Margaret Atwood, David Suzuki, Farley Mowat… I have been a supporter of the Council of Canadians...
Science for Peace
May 5, 20203 min read
Canadian challenges for justice and sustainability in the Anthropocene
While the emergence of Covid-19 and its global spread is radically changing the social and economic future of our planet, it is...
Science for Peace
Apr 30, 20204 min read
The Best Way Forward after COVID-19?
The attention of several members of Science for Peace has recently been drawn to a Dutch Manifesto prepared by 170 scientists, intended...
Science for Peace
Apr 28, 20208 min read
COVID-19 Update 8, April 28
A paper published by The Lancet on March 21 considered “country-based mitigation measures” and concluded that: “Individual behaviour will...
Science for Peace
Apr 28, 20203 min read
Three Myths That Should Not Survive the Pandemic
The outbreak of the SARS2-COVID19 has exposed both the frightening vulnerability of our technological society to unexpected disruptions...
Science for Peace
Apr 23, 20208 min read
Covid-19 Update 7, April 23
Images of mass graves in New York, Ecuador and Brazil have been appearing in the media. According to Reuters, as of April 17 the real...
Science for Peace
Apr 23, 20202 min read
COVID-19 in Gaza
The Covid-19 pandemic is confronting governments around the world with an emergency health situation, requiring self-isolation,...
Science for Peace
Apr 18, 20208 min read
The Unconscious System Plague: Will Covid-19 Finally Awaken Us?
Like others, I have thought from the first day of the Covid-19 pandemic that it was forcing us to awake from exponential life-system...
Science for Peace
Apr 18, 20206 min read
Covid 19 Update 6, April 17
For China and South Korea the pandemic is over. Iran and Italy are at about 2% of new cases daily and will slowly continue to go down....
Science for Peace
Apr 17, 20203 min read
Covid 19 Update 5, April 11
On April 9 the Canadian government released a report predicting 500 – 700 new deaths and 32000 total cases by the end of the week. These...
Science for Peace
Apr 11, 20203 min read
Covid 19 Update 4 – April 8
In the recent Ontario report projecting 3000 – 10000 deaths from Covid in two years, the range includes a number of possible...
Science for Peace
Apr 8, 20204 min read
Pandemic Insights: Acting Together for a Peaceful, Sustainable World
How strange this time is. Separated, distanced, alone with our thoughts, imaginings, fears… We don’t know when our isolation will end,...
Science for Peace
Apr 7, 20203 min read
Why I Love Science for Peace
When I retired several years ago from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, I wanted to do different things...
Science for Peace
Apr 7, 20203 min read
Global Health in the Covid-19 Era: Tackling the Real Issues
By the late 20th century it was evident that pervasive threats to global health were not being adequately addressed. These threats...
Science for Peace
Apr 6, 20205 min read
Covid 19 Update – April 03
Sadly, but not surprisingly, the virus crisis brought with it a pandemic of blaming and hate. Lately there has been much talk about China...
Science for Peace
Apr 3, 20203 min read
Covid 19 Update – March 31
Brazil’s president Bolsonaro recently declared that Brazilians have a natural immunity to Covid 19. So far the data seems to confirm that...
Science for Peace
Mar 31, 20201 min read
Covid 19 Update — March 26, 2020
The data tracing the pandemic provide objective indicators as to how well different countries are doing in controlling the spread and...
Science for Peace
Mar 27, 20203 min read
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