With his cabinet’s second approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has either proved the Liberal Party of Canada’s old mojo is still intact or blown it all to smithereens. It’s too soon to tell. Alberta Conservatives and their legion of media cheerleaders
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Warren Kinsella: Five free comms tips for Justin Trudeau
The Gettysburg Address it was not. Standing on the picturesque shores of some picturesque lake in Mont-Saint-Hillaire, Quebec, Justin Trudeau was asked what he and his family had done to cut single-use plastics out of their lives. Here is what he said, verbatim. “We…uh…uh…we have recently switched to drinking water bottles
Continue readingAlberta Politics: It’s time for a frank talk about the T-word: Just who’s advocating treason here anyway?
It’s time, my fellow Canadians, for us to have a frank talk about the T-word. Albertans who have been paying attention to politics for the past few years cannot have missed the fact certain elements of the right-wing ideological ecosystem have been sloppy and irresponsible in their use of terms
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Left by the pope with a choice between glory to God and death to the carbon tax, what will Jason do?
Turns out you really can’t serve God and Mammon! Who knew? Tout le monde Conservative Alberta was reeling over the weekend at Friday’s news from Rome that Pope Francis, leader of 1.3 billion Catholics, has declared global warming to be a real thing and putting a price on carbon to
Continue readingAlberta Politics: The strategy behind the UCP’s Public Sector Arbitration Deferral Act explained
Albertans who don’t pay much attention to labour relations may be forgiven for wondering about the harsh reaction yesterday to the Alberta Government’s introduction of legislation to delay arbitration for thousands of public employees. Many readers not directly hostile to unions nevertheless may have wondered, “What’s the big deal? The
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Prime Minister Single-Use Plastic
From next week’s Hill Times column. It’s pointy, like a juice box straw. The Gettysburg Address it was not. Standing on the picturesque shores of some picturesque lake in Mont-Saint-Hillaire, Quebec, Justin Trudeau was asked what he and his family had done to cut single-use plastics out of their lives.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: it isn’t genocide
Genocide is one of those words that one does not toss about, like confetti. One does not treat “genocide” like it has no meaning. It has a very specific meaning. Justin Trudeau knows it is a serious word, because of what he has said in the recent past. He knows
Continue readingAlberta Politics: If it seems as if Canada’s Conservatives have lost it, guess again: They’ve just adopted the Trump playbook in its entirety
“Huge pothole on #StAlbert Trail right now! This is a preview of Canada’s future if Justin Trudeau is re-elected as prime minister, as he continues to implement his terrible anti-automobile agenda.” Were I to take to Twitter and say such a thing, dear readers, presumably many of you would conclude
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: when Trudeau calls it genocide
Genocide. That’s what the Prime Minister of Canada says Canada is guilty of — the crime of crimes. That’s what the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal called it, too, when passing judgment on Jean Kambanda, who oversaw the slaughter of more than 800,000 Tutsi and Hutu civilians in Rwanda in
Continue readingAlberta Politics: How will Alberta politicians respond now that groups like Canada’s nurses are demanding action on climate change?
FREDERICTON – On the last day of their national convention in New Brunswick’s capital city today, the approximately 900 delegates of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on Canadian governments to recognize climate change is a global crisis and a health emergency, and to act
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Canada’s ‘Liberals’ Have a Disturbing Imperial Streak
Photo by Chrystia Freeland (Twitter) Canada’s embassy in Venezuela will—at the end of this month—close. The spur for this closure is an open attempt by Canada’s Justin Trudeau to overthrow Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. Canada is one of the leaders of the Lima Group, a network of countries that came together
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: About that new CPC spot
It’s good, but: • it tries to cover too many subjects in too few seconds • it’s pretty busy, visually I think there’s enough stuff here for three different spots: the Liberals abandoning ship, the scandals, and the mistreatment of women. It’s that last one that deserves its own spot.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: There’s not much Jason Kenney’s ‘war room’ can do to ease medical concerns about health impacts of climate change
FREDERICTON, N.B. – Whatever will Jason Kenney’s $30-million “war room” do about people like the nurses and physicians around the world growing increasingly troubled by the health impacts of climate change? They are, after all, members of two professions most trusted by the Canadians according to survey after survey going
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Sean Holman Calls On Canadian Media To Step And Report On Climate Change
Many readers will recall Sean Holman’s BC based log ‘Public Eye Online.’ His commitment to journalism reporting all the news, and digging to get it is well known in media circles. His work is of Read more…
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Still here! (Sorta)
Its been awhile since I posted something here.. so I felt the need to add a blog entry to indicate I’m still alive. (If you read my twitter account at the right sidebar, you’ll see I am indeed around still). Lots of things have happened in a couple of months.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Methinks the MP doth protest too much! Michael Cooper came to that Justice Committee meeting loaded for bear
Now that St. Albert-Edmonton MP Michael Cooper has been given a gentle tap on the wrist by Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer for his offensive performance at the House of Commons Justice Committee Thursday, we can be confident Conservatives will try to make the whole thing disappear as quickly as
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Highly-scientific poll™️: Obama and Trudeau go pubbing
So, Barack Obama, the best president ever, was in Ottawa. I was there at the same time. Do the math. Okay, no, I didn’t meet him or see him when I was in the Town That Fun Forgot, but Justin Trudeau did. The met at a pub. I am shocked,
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