Mourning the loss of Ian Shugart. An outstanding public servant, an inspiring teacher and mentor, a wonderfully wide person, and a wonderful friend. You will be sorely missed. Rest in peace.

“I hope that my journey has helped some of you out there that are dealing with some issues your own because you inspired me to get through this… I love you great Canadian Blue Jay fans.”

Buck Martinez gets a standing ovation from the entire Rogers Centre 👏 🥲

So special at this time of the year at the University of Toronto. Thank you to our leaders who planned this so many years ago.

Duty Bound to Disaster: Beware the Imperative in Foreign Policymaking War on the Rocks warontherocks.com/2022/03/duty-b…

This Friday, I will be in Toronto speaking at the @MunkSchool.
 
Join me and Janice Stein as we discuss Canada’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Putin’s Folly: A Case Study of an Inept Strategist War on the Rocks warontherocks.com/2022/03/putins…

My champion succulent is producing babies. It’s not worrying about this war the way I am.

I’m entering this succulent in the annual gardening championship. I do nothing and it continues to climb the wall! Tallest one I’ve ever seen.

At the Halifax Security Forum, the global power index has shifted from the Asia-Pacific to the Indo-Pacific.

The Delta waves in the US and Canada, a striking contrast. Fully vaccinated of total population:
Canada 64%
US 50%

Doctor Strang recommends everyone gets tested on a weekly basis, even if you're just going out for groceries, exercising and spending time around your close ones.

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Nate Silver Agree there's a lot of uncertainty, Nate. But without that certainty, continued assertions of very high protection are unhelpful. We would know precisely what the level of protection vs symptomatic infections was if we collected the data and did the proper studies

The C.D.C. Needs to Stop Confusing the Public nytimes.com/2021/08/04/opi…
Such smart advice. We need it right now

Still find this counterintuitive?
Study this diagram by John Burn-Murdoch and Oliver Barnes Financial Times ft.com/content/0f11b2…

Really good quick read.

When it comes to getting vaccine shots into people's arms, one country really stands out
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One of the key messages of today's RSC report - encapsulated by Tara Moriarty 'For any future epidemic or crisis situation, Canada really, really needs to be understanding what’s happening in real time in terms of deaths.”

Meanwhile...in West Texas, storm chaser Laura Rowe captured the picture of a lifetime May 17, 2021.

President Biden promised a US response to DarkSide yesterday and right now something very bad appears to be happening to DarkSide, which hacked the Colonial Pipeline.