Wall had the Lieutenant Governor read to the Legislature that opposition to climate change is a “misguided dogma” in his throne speech. https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/tell-saskatchewan-s-premier-to-stop-denying-climate-change-and-act The Premier and the Sask Party are making it government policy that a contributing factor in the wildfires that caused thousands of refugees to flee their homes last year in Saskatchewan, is […]
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Peter Mazereeuw reports on the growing opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership which may result in it never coming into force. And Jerry Dias reminds us why we should be glad if that movement wins out over …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: No Encouraging News Here
For those of us who follow such matters, this news is not really surprising: 2015 was the hottest year on record:Recommend this Post
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Karen Palmer writes about a push by U.S. doctors to follow in Canada’s footsteps with single-payer health care – even as a few profiteers seek to tear our system apart:Global evidence shows that private insurance …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Ed Finn comments on the history of neoliberalism – but notes that while the public is rightly skeptical of corporate spin, that awareness hasn’t yet translated into a strong alternative:(S)cores of well-known…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Neil MacDonald discusses the unfairness in allowing a wealthy class of individuals to set up its own rules, while Jeffrey Sachs notes that the U.S. and U.K. are among the worst offenders in allowing for systema…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: In The Service Of Truth
There are many truths today that, thanks to the almost reflexive, visceral response of an often vitriolic social media, few dare to speak. Most recently, linking the terrible fires in Fort McMurray with climate change has been one of them. Is it insens…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: As Flies To Wanton Boys
As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods.They kill us for their sport.King Lear, Act 4, Scene 1In earlier times, we would have blamed the gods for their capricious acts of destruction. Today, we know better. We need only look in the mirror to see the…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Fort Mac Beast and Our Fiery Future
I've tried to be as positive and as sensitive as possible about the fire that almost consumed Fort McMurray.I've tried to point out all the ways that catastrophe has brought us together as Canadians.And I completely understand why Justin Trud…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Frank examines how market outcomes are shaped disproportionately by luck rather than significant differences in merit:(W)ith each extension of the highway, rail, and canal systems, shipping costs fell sh…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I Know It’s Tornado Season, But
… this certainly doesn’t seem normal to me:Recommend this Post
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- David Akin reports that MPs from multiple parties are rightly challenging offshore tax evasion – though it remains to be seen how many will actually demand a change to the practice. And Tanya Tagala notes that it…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Trudeau Critical Of Elizabeth May For Tying Fort McMurray Fires To Global Warming
Green Party leader Elizabeth May has connected the raging fires that wiped out Fort McMurray sending 88, 000 residents fleeing for their lives with Global Warming. She stated the obvious and is being critized by Read more…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- David Crane identifies the good news in the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s report on climate change – which is that we can meet our greenhouse gas emissions targets through readily feasible policy choices as long a…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Firefighters and the Inferno of Climate Change
The roaring inferno in and around Fort McMurray is now so big only Mother Nature can stop it."Let me be clear, air tankers are not going to stop this fire," Morrison said. "This is an extreme fire event. It's going to continue to pus…
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Not only #ExxonKnew about climate change, but its Canadian subsidiary #ImperialKnew too
Thursday, May 5, 2016
New documents reveal that the Canadian oil company Imperial Oil knew in the 1970s or earlier that burning fossil fuels caused climate …
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Trudeau on Forest Fire Tragedy
The Prime Minister spoke about forest fires’ connection to climate change at a community affected by a massive evacuation due in part to climate change. “The reality of climate change is that we’re going to see more and more extreme weather events and we need to make sure that as a country we’re properly equipped […]
Montreal Simon: The Fort Mac Fire: Time to Give Cheap Politics a Rest
It's like a scene out of hell, a raging inferno if ever there was one.And I feel so sorry for the residents of Fort Mac who have lost their homes or their businesses. But what I find really moving is the way many Canadians all over the country hav…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Elizabeth May Goes Where Trudeau Fears To Tread
Some would say that to link the terrible losses in Fort McMurray to climate change is insensitive and political. Of course, they would be wrong, since climate change is not an ideological issue, however much the deniers try to frame it. It is a fact.Wh…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Ten things to know about the 2016-17 Alberta budget
Over at the web site of the Calgary Homeless Foundation, I have a blog post titled: “Ten things to know about the 2016-17 Alberta budget.”
The link to the post is here.