Crawford Kilian
The Tyee
North Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Past articles by Crawford:
The Next Pandemic? More Likely a Polydemic
Our current approach produces a grim forecast. We need stronger health systems to battle hybrid viruses. → Read More
Canada’s First Black Nurses, and How to Save the System
As burn-out mounts, a history book reminds we must improve conditions as we seek new recruits. → Read More
A Short History of Nuclear Dread and Amnesia
For decades nukes riveted our attention. Then we relaxed while Putin still held the ultimate card. → Read More
Where the Convoy Is Trying to Drive Canada
The destination is the ditch of Trumpism, our democratic institutions undercut by paranoid illiberalism. → Read More
Is This How We Feed Ourselves and Save the World?
A Finnish firm will make protein flour from bacteria. We ponder the implications and speak with the founder. → Read More
How Seriously Should We Take the People’s Party of Canada?
It’s tempting to ignore Bernier and his followers as deluded trolls. It’s also dangerous. → Read More
New Findings on Pandemic Kids. And What They Really Tell Us
The subtext: If we don’t rescue this generation, they can’t save us. → Read More
Why Canada Was So Late to Meet the Pandemic Risk
A mysteriously downgraded alert process and more fails are listed in a new independent report. → Read More
Critical Race Theory Hysteria and Today’s US Civil War
Republicans are waging slow-rolling secession, state by state. Tactic: Cancel history. → Read More
A COVID-19 Lab Leak in Wuhan? As a Story, It Doesn’t Hold Up
Plot holes, racist tropes — we’d be better off banding together to end this pandemic and forestall the next one. → Read More
The Best Book Written about the Pandemic, So Far
Peter Baldwin’s witty and strikingly readable work compares responses from governments around the world. → Read More
The Dropout Who Created Bellingcat, an Intelligence Agency for the People
Eliot Higgins and his geek squad have outed Putin hit jobs, US neo-Nazis and more. An inspiring new book tells how. → Read More
Spend Some Time with a Funny Prophet of Doom
Cosmologist Katie Mack ponders ‘The Big Crunch’ and other ways our universe might go kaput. → Read More
Experts Rated 98 Nations Handling COVID. Canada Was 61st
Top performers had little in common politically, the think tank found. → Read More
Don’t Forget the Uncounted Casualties of COVID-19
And there are many. They won’t stop, unless we finally address the fact that unequal societies are sick societies. → Read More
Jan. 6, a Day that Will Live in Infamy
Uniting? Healing? Here’s what Joe Biden must do as the world watches. → Read More
Give It to Us Straighter, Dr. Henry
When students stop listening the teacher is to blame. Here’s what we need to be told. → Read More
A Master Class on Overconsumption and Climate Change
The two are profoundly linked, as Hope Jahren’s new book clearly explains. → Read More
If We Just Treat COVID-19 as a Pandemic, We’re Screwed
We’re in a syndemic, when an illness and our broken society combine to bring terrible things. Here’s how we need to respond. → Read More
‘Our Final Warning’ Offers a Preview of Hothouse Earth
As hot summer reads go, this is not a relaxing one. → Read More