Author: The Mound of Sound

British Columbia’s salmon stocks are reeling. Half of Canada’s chinook salmon are endangered, with nearly all other populations in precarious decline, according to a new

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, has a membership roster that includes the wealthiest, most prosperous and, generally whitest, nations on the

They didn’t quite storm the Bastille but the riots that hammered Paris over the Macron government’s proposal to hike carbon taxes on gasoline and diesel

It’s not the sort of thing I expected to read in the pages of Macleans but, there it is, the case for Canada to rapidly

It was something of a letdown yesterday when Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sentencing report on former Trump national security advisor, Michael Flynn, was released to

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is singing Michael Flynn’s praises for spilling the beans on the Trump campaign/administration’s dealings with Russia. Beyond that, Mueller has kept

All day long the US news outlets have been reporting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller would be filing the prosecution’s submissions on the sentencing of

2019 could be a bare knuckle election for Canada, one in which milquetoasts will be easy meat. That, according to a Macleans article by Michael

When you’re a Republican, the will of the voters matters very little. That’s the message Wisconsin Republicans are sending loud and clear as they try

The civil trial of Jeffrey Epstein has been stopped on the courthouse steps.  The multimillionaire serial pedophile threw enough money at the plaintiffs to bury

“In the climate change hypocrisy sweepstakes, it’s hard to beat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. But he sure talks a good game.”With that opener, the Globe’s

George H.W. Bush couldn’t have died at a better time for Team Trump. What better distraction could they have to disrupt the week’s news cycle.

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Was Donald Trump’s Moscow Trump Tower tied to lifting US sanctions on Russia? Is that why Robert Mueller had Michael Cohen plead guilty to the

Give ’em credit, they got off to a rip-roaring start. They even used that awesome line about how “this is the last generation that can

General Motors has taken Donald Trump to the woodshed. Robert Reich writes that GM has shown Trump that ‘America First’ never trumps  ‘shareholders first.’ In

Lord Conrad, the con, Black has taken to the pages of National Review to defend his soulmate, Donald Trump.  Black’s point is that Hitler killed a

When former Trump lawyer/fixer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty yesterday for lying to Congress, Donald Trump pounced on Cohen saying he was lying. The deal for

They rely on scare tactics and conspiracy theories and they’re making dangerous inroads, often from anecdotal accounts spread through social media. Now we’re figuring out

Don Pittis, the CBC’s business reporter, usually focuses on things economic but today he is venturing into climate change and how miserably our federal and