Author: Graeme Decarie

 I have just lost 6 or 7 hours of research and writing for the blog. I don’t know how it happened. It simply disappeared. So the real Sept. 12 will not appear until Sept. 13 – I hope.

https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/features/sea-ice-is-an-endangered-species-declining-rapidly-in-canadas-north A footnote –  In World War 1, the British had also taken control of Iran. And it forced Iran to supply the British navy with oil free of charge from 1918 to 1948 when Iran kicked the British out, kicked out their dictator ruler, and became a democracy. Needing

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/07/new-zealand-wins-global-praise-historic-law-bring-net-carbon-emissions-zero-2050 So. Why can’t the rest of us do that?_________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/06/billionaires-super-rich-extreme-wealth-political-influence-inequality-gates-bezos-buffett Would any Canadian or American newspaper run this opinion column? Not likely. They are more likely to be the tools of the billionaires._________________________________________________________________ Contrary to  common belief, Canada is and always has been a quite racist country. There have

(Sorry this blog is so late. I know I did send it out on time. But for some reason it stung it’s tongue at me and stepped back.) https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/scientists-declare-climate-emergency-1.5347486 Not to worry.  Premier Doug Ford of Ontario says there is no climate change. And he has a high school leaving

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/encana-suttles-oilpatch-alberta-houston-denver-1.5342935_____________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/02/fracking-banned-in-uk-as-government-makes-major-u-turn Fracking is dangerous? Gee! Who woulda guessed?_____________________________________________________________https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/pengrowth-cona-oilpatch-calgary-1.5344643 In fighting to save the oil patch of Alberta, the Conservatives are fighting a losing battle. The only thing the Conservatives can do is to preserve an industry which is going to collapse anyway – and, as things are going, an

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/greta-thunberg-nordic-prize-1.5340672 Oh, Greta, if only you were old enough to be prime minister….________________________________________________________________ http://rabble.ca/columnists/2019/10/canadas-conservatives-republicans-or-tories The Conservatives have long taken a position that the CBC news network (owned by all of us) should be destroyed. Of course. The CBC is by far the best news service in Canada. At that, it’s

I am beginning this on Sunday, Oct. 27. I have just listened to a speech to the UN General Assembly delivered by Donald Trump. What a liar! and what a fool! And it just spun out with almost every sentence a lie. (He even had a line there in defence

https://www.rt.com/usa/471691-trump-border-wall-colorado/_________________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/oct/25/suvs-second-biggest-cause-of-emissions-rise-figures-reveal_________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/25/the-real-reason-some-scientists-downplay-the-risks-of-climate-change The Guardian has long had a reputation of being the most honest major newspaper in the world.  (And the most intelligent). That’s quite a contrast with almost all the commercial news media of North America. The city I live in, Canada’s capital, has a newspaper that’s a disgrace

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/exxon-shell-climate-change-court-new-york-attorney-general-litigation-documents-1.5331228 Is climate change happening? Scientists all over the world say it is. In some countries it has already caused tremendous damage – to people and to  architecture. Stopping it will require a massive change in society. And that massive change is not happening. At some point, probably soon, it

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/permafrost-climate-change-1.5330144 This is a report largely ignored by the parties. The Liberals, who have been remarkably inactive for the last four years, came in  first – but not as a majority. The Conservatives, the party that wallows even more than the Liberals  in it’s kissing up to the very, very

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/project-cactus-maxime-bernier-1.5327555 The ugliest event in a very ugly election._________________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/confronting-carbon2/ Climate change could destroy this planet in a lifetime?  Hey – Lotsa time. Lotsa time._________________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/election-test-1.5325206 I am not a religious person. But I do not feel offended or threatened by Christians who wear crosses or by Jews who wear

A reader said of my last blog that I obviously didn’t proofread because I had a sentence near the top that had a word in error. That reader is right. I usually start a blog in late morning, and finish it around nine or ten in the evening. I end

https://www.rt.com/news/470932-pentagon-nato-turkey-isis/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=push_notifications&utm_campaign=push_notifications I no longer understand anything. Trump is now warning Turkey against invading the Kurds of Afghanistan. But Trump is the one who quite openly withdrew all support from the Kurds, and allowed the Turks to invade. Trump abandoned the Kurds. So now he says he’ll punish the Russians if

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/ This has not been an exciting election for Canada. The best news (which isn’t great) is that the Liberals are best positioned to form a minority government – probably with the NDP.________________________________________________________________ Corruption? With the oil industry? In Alberta?  Nah. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/aer-icore-board-members-1.5312265_________________________________________________________________ I grew up in a Quebec  that was

As I began today’s blog, I planned to use my regular formula which has a good deal of commentary added by me. But I was overwhelmed by  the range of idiocy and greed and cruelty. There was so much to cover – the idiocy of the Canadian election, the immense

https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/03/wealth-identity-politics-billionaires-acting-like-a-persecuted-minority/ The very wealthy have become so powerful, they are our governments This is a giant step back into the Roman Empire when the people of Rome were scum of the earth, and all power and wealth was in the hands of a tiny number. And, like the Roman aristocracy,

My computer has just pulled it’s stunt of losing a large number of it’s entries.So I shall immediately publish this one. And then work into the cold, dark night to finish it. An event of 1841 can scarcely be called a current event. But it has a lesson for us. 

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. For the second time – in just over a week -the major part of a blog has disappeared. I have no idea why. I started today’s blog at  noon, finished it at 8:30 scrolled back for a spelling check. And hardly

Note to our correspondent who was an administrator at McGill and who I taught when the world and I were young. You can reach me at —graemedecarie1@gmail.com https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/key-moments-french-language-debate-1.5306941 Canadians, like all the peoples of this  planet, face a horrible extinction. Can it be prevented? Nobody cares. How much time to

..but we have lonWe have since abused the meaning of patriotism to mean sobedience to the powerful and greedy._______________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/alberta-hydrogen-innovation-1.5290297 I don’t know what to make about this one. If true, this should be a major story all over the world. But it’s not. As well, there’s  the question of