Evening skyline in Shanghai. Photo by Adi Constantin. China’s economy is often presented as a powerful engine. This is, however, only one face of it. It has also been marked by vulnerabilities, and these have become more obvious over time, as the costs of high-speed growth have rebounded on the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is the Trans-Atlantic Bromance Over?
Are Donald Trump and Boris Johnson going through a tiff or is the bromance over before the honeymoon really got underway? Business Insider reports that things are going downhill rapidly for BoJo and the Mango Mussolini. Donald Trump’s previously close relationship with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks close to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Were You Expecting If Not a Bit of Chaos?
We’re now in the Decade of Decision. We have the 20s to slash our greenhouse gas emissions by half if we’re to have a reasonable chance of averting irreversible climate breakdown. No guarantees, a reasonable chance. If, by the time the next decade rolls around, we’re pretty much in the
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: CBC want the Hot Nasties: October of Seven Oh
A nice guy, a documentary producer, got in touch with me before the SFH gig at the Bovine Friday night. Said they wanted to use the Hot Nasties tune, October Seven Oh, in a doc. For those who are interested, here’s the song (plus a couple others, Get Away From
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Reflections On Stillness & Action
We need stillness and action – both, and urgently so. This should be becoming perfectly clear. I’ve travelled through 20 countries, but still I find stillness the greatest adventure, and most rewarding, enriching journey of all. Going to the mountain top is exceedingly worthwhile, but going deep within is what
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: The Rail Detour
Over the last few weeks as Canada has been dealing with the fallout from the Wet’suwet’en protests, we have seen a lot of political leaders doing the opposite of what they’ve been needed to do. For the Conservatives, we haven’t seen any constructive ideas come forward from them; all we’ve
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Limbaugh On The Coronavirus
Rush Limbaugh claims that the coronavirus is “a common cold” which is being used to take down Donald Trump. Martin Pengelly writes in The Guardian: The coronavirus outbreak is being “weaponised” by the media to bring down Donald Trump when in fact it is simply a version of the “common
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: We get letters: a new pen pal!
This nice fellow objects to me objecting to anyone getting killed.
Continue readingcmkl: What to do with the event jerseys
Do you have a drawer full of cycling event jerseys that you never wear? I do. You know the type. Cheap and cheerful, festooned with logos, ill-fitting and suffocating. Can’t give them away. But Brandt-Sorenson will make them into a new jersey for you. That fits. That breathes. That you
Continue readingThings Are Good: Be Conscious of Wild Animal Pictures with Tourists
It’s a sad truth that animals are caught in the wild and are then subsequently forced to entertain tourists against their will. Too often “influencers” and regular tourists take pictures alongside these animals to show how pleasant their travel experience has been, but this ignores the plight of the animals.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Saeed Kamali Dehghan reports on a new World Health Organization study showing the utter lack of progress toward sustainable development, particularly due to the harms caused by our climate breakdown. Mahita Gajanan focuses on the reality that every child’s future is threatened
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: police, politicians and protestors
Can the politicians tell the police to take down the barricades? If not, why not? Those are the two questions that have been mooted for more than two weeks now. Around the nation’s water coolers, in just about every Tim Horton’s, frustrated and angry Canadians – Indigenous and otherwise –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Renewed Effort to Get Bill C-16 Repealed – Go Canada!
We need to get the word out and get C-16 repealed. Protect Canadian Women (adult human females). Bill C-16 GBA Denied Justin Trudeau refuses to release the Gender Based Analysis for Bill C-16 When Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister of Canada, he promised to do a Gender-Based Analysis (GBA) before
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Buffalo Declarations and other Bull.
There is an odour emanating from the politics of self justification in Alberta. And it is not that of the wild prairie rose. It is the greed and the false tears and it is the manure that helps it grow. I remember as a young man, standing at the government
Continue readingAlberta Politics: What really happened to the Teck Frontier oilsands mine? It’s the market, stupid!
So what really happened to the Teck Frontier oilsands mine? Hint: It wasn’t anything Justin Trudeau did or didn’t do. That’s pure United Conservative Party gas lighting, a game a career politician like Alberta Premier Jason Kenney just can’t make himself stop playing. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney (Photo: David J.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Horgan’s LNG Fantasy
We hear a lot about Asian markets eager to buy Canadian LNG. That’s a lie. To extract, transmit, liquefy and ship Canadian methane to Asia requires a price of about $9 per million BTU to see any profit. From oilprice.com: LNG prices in Asia recently fell below $4/MMBtu, down 40
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jason Kenney and the Teck Frontier Fiasco
For months Jason Kenney has been strutting around like a puffed up mini Mussolini, bellowing "Trudeau gimme that mine, or else!!!!"And threatening that Alberta could separate if the Liberal government didn't approve the Teck Frontier project, a massive oil sands mine.But today you could hear the air hissing out of
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Call to Civil Disobedience
When Christiana Figueres calls for civil disobedience, it’s about time we listened. Figueres served as executive director of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016. She knows the mess we’re in and the urgency of the moment. “It’s time to participate in non-violent political movements wherever
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: Talking Alberta Court Carbon Tax Decision & Wet’suwet’en Protests with Kristy Cameron
Today I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Shane MacKenzie on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked the breaking news on the Carbon Tax Court Case in Alberta & the latest developments in the Wet’suwet’en protests. You can listen to the audio below starting
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Wild Rose Denialism
Jason Kenney has sure got his dainties in a bunch over the decision by Teck Resources to back away from the Frontier bitumen mega-mine. To hear Kenney tell it, it’s all Justin Trudeau’s fault. Even though Teck backtracked less than a week before Ottawa was to announce its decision on
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