These two satellite photographs from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration present the problem very clearly. Here’s what you need to remember. Last winter’s snowpack in the Sierra Nevadas, shown…
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Please permit me to address a bit of a different topic for myself. As an old student press hand back in…
Both Harper and Netanyahu are singing songs for each other. I could not find the video where Netanyahu talks about his love for Stephen Harper and Canada. Below is a…
Consider it a return to the bad-old days. Egypt’s military and financial elites have retaken control of the country. The return to power of the political and economic class aligned…
Here it is: If you want to enjoy sunrise in Tiananmen Square the Chinese government is there to help. On this massive screen they’re televising what you can’t see for…
Leaders of the Trans-Pacific Partnership meet in 2011 Read this Jan. 15 story from The Huffington Post’s Kate Sheppard on the release of a secret draft chapter on the environmental…
I went for a run today for the first time in a bit. I thought I would skip the Running Room regimen and just see how I was doing. I…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Land use decisions have been the dominant hot item in North Cowichan political circles for the last number of years. Echo Heights tops the list considering the…
…and see how a real spin doctor does it. Today, Brent Mazerolle takes over on the Moncton “economic summit” (my, what a grand term), and shows what a real master…
It sounded like a plan. When runaway global warming got bad enough we’d just hurl huge amounts of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere and cool the planet right back down.…
This actually came out yesterday but I had maxed out my quota for this stuff so I put it off to today. From Deutsche Welle news service comes news of…
A week ago it was announced that Norway’s North Sea oil fund had amassed enough that every Norse had become (symbolically) a millionaire. That’s a million Krone or about $118,000…
Son Three: For a minute there, I forgot I was wearing shoes. Son Two: God, you’re such an idiot. Son Three: I also sometimes forget I wear braces.
Tim’s Contemplative Face Anyone who reads this blog regularly is probably aware that I am no fan of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak. A callow lad at best, a…
North America’s deep freeze experience with the dreaded Polar Vortex got a lot of pinheads like Donald Trump and other rightwingers squawking about how global warming was over, a myth.…
From the West Seattle Herald. An ‘air stagnation alert’ has been issued by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA. The National Weather Service has issued an air stagnation…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bill Kerry writes that extreme inequality serves to reinforce itself – and points out what needs to be done to counter the temptation…
Big things are happening in the nation’s capital – and it has nothing to do with hockey. Canadians are meeting to talk about how to best build a connected Canada…
The Inuktuitut word describing adoption means, “the one we took” or “my adopted,” Inuit do not use words such as “give up” or “give away” to describe adoption. Rather, the…
