Dr. John Hollins, past Chair Canadian Club of Rome, summarizes: COVID – in six nations STORY courtesy Gordon Kubanek; SUMMARY by John Hollins This article is from the Tyee, an independent, online news magazine from B.C., founded in 2003 and devoted to fact-driven reporting and analysis that informs and enlivens our democratic conversation. Tyee is […]
GREEN GRIEVANCES by Jeff Passmore
Jeff Passmore, Canadian Club of Rome member, has a letter published in the Globe and Mail in response to the article: Canada Can Lead On Climate Change, Jeff Passmore responded. (July 30): Contributor Mary Robinson seems too kind. She states that “Mr. Trudeau risks severely damaging his country’s credentials on climate change.” Whatever “credentials” […]
Domestic Hot Water Efficiency
In a world where energy consumption is on the rise, our only hope is the development of new energy-generation technologies and energy efficiencies. Although currently used renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy have their merits, there is a gigantic, permanent, and untapped energy source quite literally under our feet: geothermal energy. Temperatures […]
Could COVID-19 be less lethal than we thought?
Dr. John Hollins, past chair, Canadian Club of Rome observes: ERIC HOSKINS, GLOBE AND MAIL, 2020 May 15 Eric Hoskins is a medical doctor, public health specialist and the former health minister for Ontario. When I was collecting data for my PhD thesis in epidemiology at the University of Oxford, my professor would often pull […]
COVID-19: Canada—not swift
Dr. John Hollins, past chair, Canadian Club of Rome, states: SUMMARY and OPINION by John Hollins 2020 June 28 This text is based primarily on an extensive report in the Globe and Mail: Lost months. During two months, three reporters interviewed more than 50 individuals involved in Canada’s pandemic response in order to understand how […]