Author: Richard

I launched Canadian Trends almost 3 full years ago which in itself was to address the adaptive nature of the topics I ended up discussing on my previous blog Hellberta. Plenty has happened in these 3 years and I’ve attempted to provide accurate forecasts of coming events as well I

It’s official, at 5:00am this morning the Sun News channel went black. No report on it’s closure, no goodbye to it’s 8000 loyal viewers, just gone with barely a whimper. They might be a tad embarrassed. The opinions on Twitter of their closure can be categorized as “good riddance”, “Good

The Globe & Mail released a poll a few days ago titled “Stephen Harper’s Canada: Better, worse or unchanged?“. I really wish I had taken a screenshot of the results of this poll as they were Friday. Suffice to say they were dismal for Stephen Harper with the majority of

My blood is absolutely boiling. Some days, I have hope, today is not one of those days. Today I am sick to my stomach, getting sicker and sicker with each and every bullshit propaganda filled quote that came out of Harper’s mouth. Whether you’re a conservative, a liberal, or NDP,

Oh yea, this is great. Great great great. Look at Canada now eh? The bill is expected to include provisions to allow “preventative arrests” and criminalize the “promotion of terror” — measures law enforcement has indicated would help detain potential terrorists before a crime is actually committed. Asked to explain

I love the movie Idiocracy it was simply brilliant. If you haven’t seen it you really should. One aspect of the movie really marks a parallel to the events happening in Greece now though. *Spoiler Alert*. In the movie the protagonist ultimately has to complete the mission of getting the

NAFTA probe of Alberta’s tailings ponds blocked Representatives of the Canadian government, along with Mexico and the United States, on Tuesday passed a resolution behind closed doors to stop the Commission for Environmental Cooperation from looking into whether the federal government is failing to enforce the Fisheries Act.  Two environmental

Another year of non-recovery now 7 years on from the “great recession” which it seems few remember was caused by a combination of Wall-Street and financial elite exuberance and hubris, derivative trading, and most importantly $147 / barrel oil which quickly ate through the middle class’s credit as bank breaking high

I’ve been really unmotivated to write any posts as of late. The barrage of lies coming from the establishment media is just overwhelming, where to even begin? The most dangerous lie of all being that a new era of “cheap energy” is here. It’s actually just a temporary period of

The Wildrose party of Alberta wants to better define their image, so I have a few questions for Danielle Smith or any other representative of the Wildrose. I’ve posted this comment here and emailed them as well. Hi Danielle, I would definitely consider myself one of those who has no

Something I’ve been noticing ever since oil (WTI) entered it’s rubber band like pattern with constant support at $80 (to support lower EROEI extreme energy development) and it’s upper resistance of $110 (because once it hits $100 affordability and gas prices become an issue causing demand to decline and usually reaching a downward

An anonymous woman offers sexual serviceson the popular application Whisper I hadn’t really been paying attention to C36 throughout the year, generally bills of this nature fall outside the scope of what this blog is looking at in the sense the issue is too divisive, emotionally charged, politicalized, and I

Having trouble finding a job, especially one that can pay for the exorbitant and ever-increasing cost-of-living in Canada? Well Stephen Poloz has some advice for you: simply take some unpaid work, it’ll look great on your resume. How bad are things in Canada’s job market? Bank of Canada Governor Stephen

I’ve received a comment by ‘Ron Weller’ on my previous post on infinite growth, this is my response. The anti-growthers are barking up the wrong tree. Whether or not a society has a sustainable economy based on renewable energy and recyclable materials depends entirely on regulations, not economic growth. The

Perhaps one of the most difficult aspects of writing about the obvious limits to growth we’re encountering is trying to clearly describe the difference between infinite exponential growth, and limited linear growth. True believers in the infinite growth model supposedly fuelled by infinite fiat currency often try to use linear models

The ’employee’s market’ was perhaps one of the last saving graces of the middle class and workers in general. It was always inevitable that when wages stagnated allowing businesses to expand that eventually the labour market would have to balance out. Eventually demand for employment would outpace the availability of

Well it seems Pretentious Prentice is the winner of the Albertan leadership race for the top position of Premier CEO though this should be no surprise as it was clear he was the status-quo’s choice from day one. With his “expertise” Albertans can be certain that our benefactors, the oil and

Alberta’s oil industry is having a serious cash crunch and the problem doesn’t look to be reversing any time soon with the price of oil continually hitting a ceiling of affordability over the last few years. This ceiling has robbed Albertan oil companies and the government they own of all

Another day, more western endorsed Gazan deaths. “Self defense”, “Rockets”, and “Human shields” are really getting old fast in terms of the excuses Israel is using to justify it’s slaughter, and it is a slaughter, of what you must remember is a very very tiny occupied land. There is no where

They call us now.Before they drop the bombs.The phone ringsand someone who knows my first namecalls and says in perfect Arabic“This is David.”And in my stupor of sonic booms and glass shattering symphoniesstill smashing around in my headI think “Do I know any Davids in Gaza?”They call us now to