A couple of years ago, the biathlon (normally includes cross country skiing) at the B.C. Winter Games had to be replaced by haha the “summer biathlon”. This year, if you had a room booked at the Montreal Ice Hotel during the last two weeks of March, you room is now
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The Disaffected Lib: Sailing Into Uncharted Waters
You don’t have to like it but you’re going to have to live with it. Climate change is setting in – hard. It’s already here and we’re going to have to come to grips with what it means. I spoke with my daughter in Chicago on Tuesday. It was 80F
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Enbridge Pipe Dreams and Nightmares
CCPA released today a report by yours truly on the economic costs and benefits of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. In particular, I take aim at the outrageous claims about jobs made by the feds and Enbridge as part of their sales pitch. The report takes a closer look at the input-output
Continue reading350 or bust: Goodbye Finn
Today our family said goodbye to Finn, our 10 year old Norwegian Elkhound. He was a good companion, and will be missed. May your heaven be filled with squirrels to chase and cars to bark at, Finn.
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.” ~ Martin Luther
Continue readingTrashy's World: This getting a bit creepy…
… seriously. 26 degrees in MARCH??? Look, I know that I go on and on about the weather – I am a Canadian, after all – but is this not just a wee bit strange? Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue reading350 or bust: Global Warming Debunked
Well, okay, maybe not so much debunked as, well, confirmed. Oops – it turns out we should still be worried, and working our butts off to preserve this wonderful world for our children and all the yet-to-be-born children. This video looks at four examples that clearly illustrate the impact of
Continue readingObama addresses Rex Murphy, Ezra Levant, Stephen Harper
Rex and Ezra look for Stephen. “I know he’s around here somewhere.” Not by name of course; Obama has no idea who the first two are and merely a begrudging acknowledgement of the third. But by speaking about climate change denialists, equating them with flat earthers, Obama could have been
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: To Be Fair
What’s “fair” in politics. Is is necessary to do everything you’ll say you do, and nothing of what you say you won’t and don’t like? A clear cut answer would be, “Yes.” Politics is not clear cut, unfortunately, because it is the process of determining power, and who holds it
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Water Wars
We goofed, big time. When Europeans settled in North America they believed it was “what you see is what you get.” As they planned for growth and expansion they didn’t understand that what they took as normal was anything but. The science wasn’t available to warn them that, throughout most
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is Florida Finis?
It’s going to be a tough century for places like the state of Florida. For all its many challenges, the greatest one facing this retirement Mecca is climate change. Low-lying Florida has water problems, too much and too little. The too much is seawater. The too little is freshwater. Heavy
Continue reading350 or bust: Healing Ourselves, Healing The World
I recently read the following quote: “life is a series of events that we’re not quite ready for”. Life is difficult; sometimes just getting out of bed in the morning can be a challenge. Tune into the news anytime of the day or night, and it’s clear that our world
Continue reading350 or bust: It’s A Mystery
Nothing in life ever stays the same, so why should this blog be any different? Since 350orbust was created in November of 2009, in response to 350.org’s “International Day of Climate Action” campaign in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference, I have been transformed. While Copenhagen was a
Continue reading350 or bust: The Harper Government’s Approach To Scientists: Control The Pests
* Although Rick Mercer treats the current situation regarding control of scientists and their tax-payer funded research in Canada with humour, unfortunately it is no laughing matter when the government of a democracy goes to great lengths to suppress information that doesn’t line up with its agenda. In fact, it
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: FEMA Throws In the Towel? Not Quite Yet.
“We cannot afford to continue to respond to disasters and suffer impacts — particularly looking at large-scale catastrophic disasters — under the current program. It will fail.” That little ray of sunshine comes from Craig Fugate, head of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA. What Craig was trying
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Kochtopus Cato Institute Power Grab: A Historical Perspective
Kochtopus-3_0.png A new chapter is being added to the ongoing Kochtopus saga. On March 1 the Washington Post, in a story sure to fill the airwaves for the weeks and months to come, revealed the Kochtopus is suing the Cato Institute for control of the recently deceased and former Cato Chairman William Niskanen's ownership share in the think-tank.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Of June and High Water
British homeowners have been told they’ll have to fend for themselves come June when their government’s agreement with Brit insurers for provision of flood coverage lapses. Insurers are reacting to what they consider a refusal by the austerity-obsessed Cameron government to honour its obligations to improve flood defences. The agreement,
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Lessons from the world’s top Environmental Law Conference
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference held each year in Eugene Oregon is, perhaps, the Mecca of environmental lawyers. It brings together literally thousands of lawyers, law students, community activists, and others to discuss whether and how the law can be used to protect the environment.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Of Polar Bears and Pond Hockey
Global warming is expected to devastate polar bear numbers but even down toward the 49th it may bring a similar fate to pond hockey or, as we called it when I was a kid, “shinny.” A new study warns that outdoor rinks could be a distant memory by mid-century. UBC
Continue reading350 or bust: It’s Time To Move On
It’s time to move on. Our country, and all of us, need to move from a fossil fuel past to a renewable energy future. The mood in Britain has turned very much against the Big Six energy companies. And it’s not hard to see why. People are fed up with
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