The goal is to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Go beyond that, we’re told, and we risk triggering natural feedback mechanisms, essentially runaway global warming.…
…but not in the pages of The Moncton Times and Transcript. One job of an editor is to go over reports, news items, to have a strong sense of what’s…
Turns out that Buddhists are quite ready to drop the gloves when it comes to Muslims muscling in on their turf. Riots have been sweeping western Burma lately. A few…
MONTRÉAL – mercredi 24 octobre 2012 (english below) – L’avenir du Horse Palace de Griffintown semble mieux assuré avec l’annonce jeudi dernier de l’intention de la Ville de Montréal d’acheter…
Donald Trump Offers Obama $5 Million Dollar Challenge Stephen Colbert Counter Offers Trump $1M
How can that happen? I thought his buddy Harper would have helped him to reinstate his honours. Read full story here.
Drill, baby, drill. We’ve heard of America’s natural gas bounty realized by extensive fracking. Overlooked, however, is the success of fracking in U.S. oil production. The Associated Press reports the…
In a split decision, the Supreme Court today upheld Ted Opitz’ win in Etobicoke Centre. The court reinstated 59 of the 79 votes that Justice Thomas Lederer threw out, reasoning…
Oil companies going unpunished for thousands of North Sea spills I am including a link to this article in the Guardian online of Oct 25, 2012, because it is absolutely…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes – Political Blogger Never has a greater threat to our sovereignty faced Canadians than that which we face in PM Steve Harper’s secret China Investment Treaty. All…
Don’t believe every piece of quantitative evidence ever produced! Quebecers HATE this man! I’ve read a dozen opinion pieces by Quebec columnists over the past few months like this one…
The audience laughed when Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian said she got called on a weekend over a major privacy breach. “I don’t know how they got…
Hard times for the working man, indeed. We’re familiar with statistics showing working class wages have stagnated, even declined somewhat, since Reagan waved his wand across the U.S. but it…
From the ever-resourceful Steve Ladurantaye, who got me to subscribe to the Globe again: here.
Former Bush secretary of state and former chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, Colin Powell, is endorsing Barack Obama for a second term as president. Powell said Obama…
Naturally, there’s plenty of discussion today about the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision on Boris Wrzesnewskyj’s challenge to the 2011 federal election results in Etobicoke Centre. But I’ll take a…
Sam Sutherland’s much-anticipated book about Canadian punk rock, which I stayed up reading way too late last night, is crucially important. And not just because I was part of the…
People in urban centres walk more and are generally more active than those who live in the suburbs, which is great for urbanites but not so great for the health…
