Author: The Mound of Sound

Just sayin’

To me, climate change is the most important issue, hands down. It is the greatest threat facing human civilization today, probably the greatest threat in

It was one of Gregory Peck’s greatest roles; Captain Ahab in Moby Dick. Obsessed with killing the great white whale, Ahab was caught in harpoon

I stumbled across a reference from their favourite book, Proverbs 6:16-19. This seems to sum up the things that God of the Bible really detests:

Who says the Right rejects political correctness? They’re fond enough of political correctness when it comes to climate change and, in particular, the Intergovernmental Panel

Practically gushing with petro-glee, the world oil cartel, OPEC, is predicting a “massive rise” in oil production over the next five years. In a forecast

Japanese scientists think the key to predicting hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones is more weather stations at the top of the world. Russia’s new and improved

The UK’s data protection watchdog is going after Victoria, BC data mining/manipulation company AggregateIQ for its role in the Brexit referendum campaign. AggregateIQ (AIQ) was

The Trudeau government has directed the (still sketchy) National Energy Board to examine the impacts of dilbit supertankers on British Columbia’s south coast. The NEB

I read a tweet from David Suzuki today. He wrote that we’re not even keeping up with man-made greenhouse gas emissions. No, we’re steadily falling

Is the hyper-expensive F-35 stealth light bomber a lemon? Have America and her allies been cajoled into buying a dud? Could just be. When Lockheed

Our supposedly progressive prime minister (hint: he’s not, not even close) didn’t like the Supreme Court of Canada’s per curiam ruling on the right to die

Put it down to irreconcilable differences. The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, claims that,  “Netanyahu is accelerating the pace of his country’s estrangement from everyone but ethnocentric

We wince a bit when someone calls a modern leader a “fascist.” It can bring up comparisons with Hitler and that sort of thing. It’s

Many of us, a large majority, have lived most or all of our lives in the era of neoliberalism that was ushered in by Reagan,

On the face of it, it sounds incredibly logical. Mankind, and all the other species with which we share this Earth, must adjust to live

A recent analysis piece in TheWashington Post reveals that Canada is probably America’s best trading partner. Canada could even be called the United States’ best

Donald Trump’s advice when it comes to women, especially wives, is to deny everything. Donald Trump said you have to “deny, deny, deny” if you

Complacency can be a mortal threat to civilized society. That message is driven home by anthropologist Jared Diamond in his book, “Collapse: How Societies Choose

One of my first assignments as a fledgling reporter in Ottawa in the early 70s was to cover the local municipal governments, the City of