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  I just watched clips of people being airlifted by helicopter to safety from torrential floodwaters. Some of those helicopters were British. Scotland is being hammered by rains and floods. It’s flooding in parts of Australia where the folks down under are putting their choppers to good use.  With another

  It’s the old “privatize profit, socialize risk” scam and, if he runs true to form, it probably has some appeal to the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau or, as I sometimes call him, Pipeline Pete. The Insurance Bureau of Canada figures Ottawa should shoulder the cost of providing

  For most plebs their house is their home and their most valuable asset. It’s their retirement nest egg. It’s where they sink most of their disposable cash on improvements, redecorating, etc. So, what happens when they discover that their house has become uninsurable? I guess “nothing good” isn’t an

Stephen Harper, Jason Kenney and Erin O’Toole. To Michael Harris they’re the unforced errors of the Conservative Party. The Conservative Party of Canada’s slide into irrelevance has turned into a bobsled run. Alberta United Conservative Party Premier Jason Kenney made two epic messes. Dealing with the pandemic by whistling past

  Here it is, straight from Environment Canada’s presses: Another front will approach the south coast on Saturday. Rain will begin for most areas Saturday morning but the heaviest rain will be Saturday night as the front nears. Rainfall amounts from Saturday to Sunday evening. will vary from about 50

Most boxers can take a punch. The champions can take a lot of punches and keep fighting to the end. The climate emergency is not for rookies. Today, the punches come in bunches. This year, British Columbia has dealt with killer heatwaves, wildfires and, now, heavy flooding.  Last Wednesday an

“Sold Out” Indeed – The federal climate commissioner has passed judgment on our governments’ efforts to fight climate change. It’s a well-deserved “F.” Despite three decades of effort, Canada’s carbon emissions have risen 20 per cent since 1990, the country remains unprepared for climate disasters and recent subsidies for the

  Western North America’s rapidly worsening wildfire problem is anthropogenic, i.e. man-made. A study out of UCLA confirms that VPD, or “vapor pressure deficit,” is to blame. Climate change — and not natural climate variability — is now the primary driver of wildfire risk and will likely continue to plague

When the only thing holding up the rails are – the rails – this fix will take a while. You not only have to replace what was there but you have to build it to meet the even greater demands of the future.  When all four of your mountain highways

Climate catastrophes are coming on fast and furious these days spurring on our politicians to truly great achievements in platitudes. There’s nothing they won’t do for us, “nothing” being the operative word. Andrew Nikiforuk rides to the rescue with 7 Rules for Surviving climate calamities and political dereliction. Last week

  The severe storms and floods that hit British Columbia last week, like the storms that are hammering Nova Scotia and Newfoundland today, are bringing into question the engineering standards being used for major infrastructure in Canada – pipelines in particular. In a nutshell, heavy flooding plays Hell with oil

This time last week the Trans-Canada highway was washed out in British Columbia.  Every mountain route was washed out, along with both railways. Now it’s the east coast’s turn. The Trans-Canada is down in Newfoundland and Labrador and there’s plenty more rain on the way.  The Department of Transportation is

  The five bad boys of fossil fuels are pretty much ignoring some of the most important things nations need to do to avert climate catastrophe. These countries are called the Fossil Fueled Five.  They are, in no particular order, the UK, the US, Norway, Australia and, brace yourselves, Canada.

The Trudeau government will end the pandemic, fight climate change and rebuild the economy. It’s right there in today’s Throne Speech. And if this prime minister is known for anything, it’s keeping his word.  A solemn promise given is a solemn promise. It literally oozes solemnity. It even has that