Each week, BIV staff will share with you some of the interesting stories we have found from around the web.
Mark Falkenberg, deputy managing editor:
Burnaby’s Vitacore Industries Inc., the first domestic company to win Health Canada authorization to make N95-equivalent respirators in Canada, is urging the B.C. government to encourage the use of the N95 and N95-equivalent masks in the province. It has also backed its request with a big gesture – donating 100,000 N95 masks to the BC Teachers’ Federation. – Burnaby Now
This piece on global temperature increases offers some awesome climate-change doomscrolling – partly because its graphics are a journalistic outlier in that they very deftly help tell the story instead of the getting in the way. – Bloomberg
Timothy Renshaw, managing editor:
Pouring more fuel on the fire of the global depressive psychosis epidemic, scientists and journalists are busy pursuing every research and story angle to come up with doomsday predictions and bad news bilge, even if it's billions of years in the future. Here's another example featuring a BGR yarn about when the Sun is going to explode and kill us all. What is the point of chasing such calculations that could be off by billions of years? And does anyone stop to think of how it might affect local real estate prices?
https://bgr.com/science/scientists-think-they-figured-out-when-the-sun-will-explode-and-kill-us-all/
Meanwhile back on Earth in the here and now, if you have ever wondered what everything is made of and how it all holds together, wrap your head around the theory of almost everything as outlined in this Asia Times story.
https://asiatimes.com/2022/01/the-absolutely-amazing-theory-of-almost-everything/
Glen Korstrom, reporter:
Documents from the police investigation into the four-year-old murder of the Toronto billionaire couple Barry and Honey Sherman keep being released. Barry, who founded the pharmaceutical company Apotex, apparently owed $1 billion in lawsuit settlements and did not plan to pay. Insights are also coming out about family relationships. This could be a movie. – Toronto Star
Kirk LaPointe, publisher and editor-in-chief:
Boris Johnson is in deep trouble. The British Prime Minister stands to cling to power but on the shortest possible permanent leash. This essay lays it out devastatingly well. – The Economist
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/01/22/the-parable-of-boris-johnson
Worth catching up to is this bundle of, yes, 193 separate stories on how each of the world’s countries would be affected by climate change. Won’t spoil it for you on what happens here, but you can probably guess. – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/opinion/climate-change-effects-countries.html
This interesting piece looks at the music of NBA YoungBoy and other emerging stars who don’t get the notice, but do get the download traffic, of the high-profile performers. – The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/nba-youngboy-and-the-music-industrys-unseen-stars
