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Alberta Politics: ‘Inauthentic activity’ on social media, abuse of progressive women in politics … is there a common thread here?
Is there a common thread running between reports Friday that a spike in “inauthentic activity” on social media just before the Alberta provincial election came from unidentified backers of the United Conservative Party and news stories Saturday about harassment of federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna? It would
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On mixed signals
Cam argues that the Libs’ latest messaging on carbon pricing is a mistake in the sense of a political gaffe. And watching only the headlines today, that take would appear to be borne out. But I’ll respond that while a posture of studied ambiguity about carbon pricing may represent an
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Patently Ridiculous
That is my assessment of our faux Environment Minister, Catherine McKenna, in her latest political statement in answer to the question of whether or not Canada should ban the export of our plastic waste: Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she has asked her department to look at what else Canada
Continue readingCarbon49 – Sustainability for Canadian businesses: Catherine McKenna on Carbon Tax, Green Investments, Election
At the 2019 Collision Conference Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna shared a panel discussion with Jonathan Baillie, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist of the National Geographic Society. They discussed Canada’s commitment to fighting climate change. At the press conference that followed, I talked to the Minister about the
Continue readingCarbon49 – Sustainability for Canadian businesses: Catherine McKenna on Carbon Tax, Green Investments, Election
At the 2019 Collision Conference Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna shared a panel discussion with Jonathan Baillie, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist of the National Geographic Society. They discussed Canada’s commitment to fighting climate change. At the press conference that followed, I talked to the Minister about the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne comments on the war being waged by Canada’s right-wing governments against workers. – Dion Rabouin writes about the product of decades of giveaways to the rich – as the obscenely wealthy literally can’t find any use for massive amounts of money
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Pleasing Words Mean Nothing
Unless they are in the thrall of rabid partisanship, nice hair, sunny smiles or pleasing but empty rhetoric, most people, I suspect, would agree that the Trudeau government has been a massive disappointment. And while the list of its failure to live up to its promise is long, for me
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Verbal Tap Dance
Talk, as they say, is cheap. Watch the following clip to see Environment Minister Catherine McKenna further debase its value by her non-answer regarding the now-stalled Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and the threat West Coast oil tanker traffic poses: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: About That Odour In The Air
While The Great Pretender and his faux Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, continue to utter platitudes about climate-change action while visiting formerly Beautiful British Columbia, smoke is not the only pollutant in the air. The unmistakable stench of a steaming pile of bovine excrement is also becoming
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Doug Ford & The Ontario PC Govt hates a carbon tax? Propose a climate change plan
So Ontario’s Environment Minister Rod Phillips met with Canadian Environment Minister Catherine Mckenna. Minister Phillips was rather defiant in his tweet about never accepting Canada’s carbon tax put on the province, while Minister Mckenna was much more diplomatic. The bottom line is: Ontario had a cap and trade plan in
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Full Of Sound And Fury
… signifying nothing. So says Macbeth about life in Act V Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s eponymous tragedy. He might also have been talking about the ‘policies’ of the Justin Trudeau government. Watching Global News last night, I was struck by the sheer lack of substance so apparent in the Liberals’
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ann Pettifor rightly questions the supposed gains from austerity in belatedly balancing budgets only at the expense of avoidable social devastation. And the CCPA documents the billions of dollars in lost assets and thousands of jobs slashed in Saskatchewan even when Brad Wall
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Albertans lose money while energy companies continue to let escaping methane make climate change worse
PHOTOS: Gas wells a-flaring in the United States’ Bakken Field (Photo: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric and Administration). Below: Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) and Progress Alberta Executive Director Duncan Kinney (Photo: Progress Alberta). CALGARY Methane released from oil and gas operations in Alberta represents lost natural
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and Canada’s Monstrous Trump Party
In a world where the 24 hour news cycle rules, it's easy to forget how Andrew Scheer became Con leader, after one of the most disgusting leadership campaigns in modern Canadian history.A campaign right out of the Night of the Living Dead… Where the Con zombies stumbled about gnawing on our Canadian
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Faith no more
Shorter Catherine McKenna on the Libs’ response to the National Energy Board misleading the public about its insider dealings with lobbyists on Energy East:Clap sunnier! Clap sunnier!
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Catherine McKenna In Paris
The international community is “really excited” to see Canada back at the table for climate change talks in Paris, Canada’s new environment and climate change minister said Tuesday. May concrete and substantial action follow. Recommend this Post
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: Keystone XL is dead. New government means climate change back on the agenda.
Having enjoyed the last week in the sunny Berkeley, California, it felt odd to turn on the car radio to hear the local disc jockeys discussing the tarsands and the merits of a pipeline that would pump unrefined bitumen from Canada to Texas. Being one of… Continue Reading →
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