While I most assuredly cannot claim any virtue when it comes to climate-change mitigation (I still fly, probably the greatest environmental sin one can commit), I do understand the gravity of what the world faces; to say I am pessimistic about our future is a massive understatement. That pessimism has
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Politics and its Discontents: “If You’re A Liberal, You’ve Got To Be Very Nervous”
So says pollster Nik Nanos, after a poll showing young people’s support for Justin Trudeau dropping dramatically after his recent chat with Greta Thunberg during her visit to Canada. Polling data from Nanos Research shows that the proportion of voters aged 18 to 29 who cite Trudeau as their preferred
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Greta And Justin
H/t Graeme McKay Given the massive turnout for yesterday’s climate strike, one can perhaps be forgiven for questioning the motives of Justin Trudeau marching in the Montreal rally. While the pipeline purchaser continues to insist twinning the Trans Mountain conduit is vital to his plan for saving the planet, some
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Attack On The National Soul
It grieves me to resign from a portfolio where I was at work to deliver an important mandate. I must abide by my core values, my ethical responsibilities, constitutional obligations. There can be a cost to acting on one’s principles, but there is a bigger cost to abandoning them. –
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Pattern We Cannot Ignore
As I write this on the morning of Labour Day, it is already 38 degrees Celsius with the humidex in Southern Ontario, another day of oppressive heat and humidity in a long line of them this summer. Scientific consensus points to the ever-increasing effects of climate change as the chief
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Please Watch This, Catherine McKenna
As Minister of Environment and Climate Change, I think it is important for you to see what the practice of real integrity, as opposed to the mouthing of inane platitudes, looks like. French Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot has resigned on live radio, in a dramatic announcement that caught even President
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Betrayal With Far-Reaching Implications
Despite the inspiring persona he peddled to win the last election, Justin Trudeau has turned out to be just another politician. As hard as that might be to accept, his betrayal of his promise to be something else, something better, is undeniable. For me personally, the sting of his failure
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Vox Populi
While many will be fixated on the latest soap-opera installments that politics now regularly yields, such as the outrageous behaviour of Trump at the G6+1, or the strange elevation to power of Doug Ford in Ontario, others are not so easily diverted, as these letter-writers demonstrate: As an atmospheric physicist
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Note To Justin
Because it is 2018, instead of buying leaky pipelines on the taxpayer’s dime, maybe you should enter the modern era and emulate China: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: His Hypocrisy Is Breathtaking
Perhaps he is counting on a fawning international press and a somnolent Canadian public. Perhaps he is counting on those who put partisan loyalties above all else. Or maybe he thinks his dazzling smile will continue to beguile. It may be any or all of these that are leading the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Pipeline Another Live Protest Against Kinder Morgan Pipeline
This time, it is in front of the constituency of Trudeau’s Justice Minister and Attorney General, Jody Wilson-Raybould: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Our Naked Prime Minister
Disingenuous, Dishonest, Cynical. Calculating. Choose any or all of those adjectives, and you will have an apt assessment of Justin Trudeau and his decision to nationalize the Kinder Morgan pipeline that will ultimately see an almost tripling of bitumen transported to Canada’s West Coast. It is a move that does
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Justin Trudeau: A Reality Check
While Canadians are rightfully applauding the retaliatory tariffs the Trudeau government will be imposing on the United States, my concern is that distraction will diminish the outrage that same government’s nationalization of the Kinder Morgan pipeline has engendered. Far too many people, it seems, are incapable or unwilling to hold
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Nathan Cullen’s Peerless Takedown Of The Hapless Justin Trudeau
Enjoy (or not, depending upon your political/philosophical/environmental orientations): Meanwhile, Star letter-writers offer some much-needed reality checks about Trudeau’s betrayal: Your editorial highlights the political risks in the Justin Trudeau government’s decision to buy the Kinder Morgan pipeline, but there is also a major economic risk involved. If the government had
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Call Him By His Real Name
I hope Justin Trudeau has a vivid imagination and total recall. That way, he can revisit the fall of 2015, depicted above, a time, you may remember, when he was exultant, having won his a majority government after posing as a man who was going to bring Canada into the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Blood On Our Hands
As Canadians, we like to walk around feeling good about ourselves, convinced both of our good intentions and our innate rectitude. Ours is a generally peaceful society, the rule of law largely respected. We look to the violent domestic madness that is an undeniable part of the U.S., and we
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: That’s Another Fine Mess He’s Gotten Himself Into
In a post yesterday, The Mound offered a searing assessment of Justin Trudeau’s abject failure on the climate-change file. Only the most ardent acolytes of the Prime Minister will fail to see that his soaring rhetoric has far outpaced his level of achievement. Says Mound: Raising public awareness about climate
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Increasingly Tattered Cloak
That would be the one Justin Trudeau wraps himself in with such rectitude whenever he attempts to convince the public of his climate-change bona fides. Increasingly, both his cloak and his rhetoric are wearing thin. The latest example of the hollowness of his public persona comes with news that his
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