There were a handful of clues which should have caused wind energy-hating American billionaire Donald Trump to pause before tweeting what he thought was an anti-wind power infographic to his…
ROB FORD DOES HEROIN. That would’ve been my headline. Call me crazy, and many do, but it seems to me that that is news. Wow.
Forum research conducted polls in two recent sets of by-elections, the August 1, 2013 Ontario by-elections in five constituencies (I posted analysis of the results on August 5) and again…
The 11th Annual Summit by Canadian Business for Social Responsibility brought together an international panel of leaders to address how corporate social responsibility practitioners can lead their companies onto a…
The U.S. National Research Council has released a 200-page report warning that climate change is coming on much faster than we appreciate and that we have to prepare for ‘abrupt…
R. v. Cadeddu, 2013 ONCA 729: (c) Principles of Party Liability Section 21 of the Code is set out at para. 28, above. Subsection 21(1) deals with principals, aiding and…
According to Margaret Wente, or at least what she heard from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Athabasca bitumen is a godsend for the poorest, most vulnerable people of the…
Four suicides in as many days. You really don’t need to know more than that to grasp how badly our government has failed the men and women it sent into…
The Guardian has released another must-read piece about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), this time laying bare its anti-environmental agenda for 2014. The paper obtained ALEC’s 2013 Annual Meeting…
BC-based conservation group Pacific Wild deploys stunning imagery to help protect the Great Bear Rainforest from the impacts of logging, salmon farms and, in recent years, proposed oil tanker traffic.…
She’s the Chief Executive of a mid-sized British investment trust and obviously still believes in the myth of sustainable growth but Katherine Garret-Cox has written an interesting commentary of economic…
BC’s Great Bear Rainforest (photo: Ian McAllister/Pacific Wild) Canada is blessed with some of the last vestiges of pristine nature on Earth – unbroken forests, coastlines and prairies, thousands of…
Whew, survived Black Friday, Black Friday Weekend, Cyber-Monday – the lot. I didn’t buy anything. Didn’t even go out to the shops. Yet my newspapers, the TV programmes and my…
Almost everyone agrees, our political system is in need of fundamental, substantive repair. Within that generalized view, there is a pre-disposed attraction to "reforms". I would actually offer up the…
Almost everyone agrees, our political system is in need of fundamental, substantive repair. Within that generalized view, there is a pre-disposed attraction to “reforms”. I would actually offer up the…
Almost everyone agrees, our political system is in need of fundamental, substantive repair. Within that generalized view, there is a pre-disposed attraction to "reforms". I would actually offer up the…
As I read the story, two words came to mind – “dry judgment.” The Times Colonist reports that some unnamed, government-appointed panel has released a 66-page report calling for improvements…
The TandT printed my letter on the project to teach enterpreneurship in the schools. Now, for those who would claim I am opposed to entrepreneurhip or to teaching it, that…
Michael Chong’s Bill C-559 is a relatively short piece of work, but it has taken me a bit of time to go through it and start to understand the implications…
