There’s Only Love
Life is sometimes hard. This is in memory of my mother, Leona, who passed on last week. Mom, it turns out, there’s only love. “We are fire and sometimes we…
July 2014
Telling It Like It Is……
When I served, the Israeli military was the most moral in the world. No more Once there was widespread Israeli outrage over the bombing of homes in Gaza. Now there…
Canada Among Top 7 Countries Least Likely to Agree with Climate Science. But Why?
Canada ranks among the world’s countries least likely to agree that climate change is a result of human activity, according to recently released Ipsos MORI research. The study, “Global Trends…
Stephen Harper and the Baby Killers
He is a man who lost his moral compass a long time ago, if he ever had one.He is a liar, a bully, a cheat, a grubby little dictator.But at…
Industrial energy expert: BC govt policy, IPPs to blame for high power bills
Construction of a private power project on the Ashlu River (Photo: Range Life) Read this July 24 op-ed in The Vancouver Sun by the former head of the Association of…
AlphaBeatic: How both Canada and the U.S. are lagging behind
Why Canadians need to look farther than the U.S. for sensible cell phone policy. Article by Peter Nowak for AlphaBeatic When discussing the state of telecommunications services and their respective…
Can environmentalism be liberated from partisan politics?
Ex-BC Green Leader Jane Sterk (left) and Premier Christy Clark on the 2013 campaign trail (Facebook) In BC, conflating environmentalism and politics is a mainstay. Is it possible to restore…
Has The Gulf Of Mexico Hit Peak Oil?
There are enough articles on the “myth of peak oil” floating around the Internet to fill a book; and there are enough books on the subject to fill a small…
Always should be someone you really love
I drove in to the city this morning and there was, just as I was pulling in to my parking spot, a “thing” on the radio about a transgender child…
Greenpeace Report: Obama Administration Exporting Climate Change by Exporting Coal
Greenpeace USA has released a major new report on an under-discussed part of President Barack Obama’s Climate Action Plan and his U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) carbon rule: it serves…
Massaging The Message: How A Republican Has Helped Israel Justify Its Invasion Of Gaza
The Independent reports on how an American Republican pollster and political strategist has helped Israel sell its recent invasion of Gaza, drawing upon a playbook is a professional, well-researched and…
AlphaBeatic: Canadians want lower prices and greater choice
Tens of thousands of Canadians are speaking out for lower cell phone bills – and this report suggests our pressure could be starting to deliver results. Keep up the pressure…
Canada Revenue Agency snubs Parliamentary Budget Officer
It may be hard to believe, but Canadians don’t know the difference between what the government is owed in taxes and what it collects. And we aren’t going to find…
Politicians Betray Canadian Values in Israel-Gaza Conflict
Rights group says Canadian party leaders’ unequivocal support of Israel a betrayal of Canadian values, demonstrates “no nuance of understanding of the broader situation between Israel, Gaza and the Palestinians.”…
Democratic Dipper Values In Action
Oh, this is brilliant: Long-time Progressive Conservative MLA Bev Harrison invoked the memory of former British prime minister Winston Churchill as he confirmed on Friday that he will run for…
Subsidy Spotlight: Paid to Pollute and Poison
This is a guest post by Paul Thacker, on assignment with Oil Change International. Cross-posted with permission. A wife and mother of two from Venice, Louisiana, Kindra Arnesen says her…
My Letter to the Financial Post
William Watson is an economist who is right to be chagrined by the presence of only one professional economist on the 16-member Economic Advisory Council ("There’s a lot more to…
My Letter to the Financial Post
William Watson is an economist who is right to be chagrined by the presence of only one professional economist on the 16-member Economic Advisory Council (“There’s a lot more to…
John Tory, then and now
Indecisive. Flip-flopper. No judgment. That’s what the polling says. And, today, he has provided yet more evidence of it.