How to Explain Climate Change to Your Cranky Old Uncle
Relax, the hard work has been done for you. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences, in conjunction with Britain’s equally prestigious Royal Society, have reduced the science to a handy…
2014
Climate Change is a Civilization Wrecker
There’s been a lot of discussion in recent months about how climate change now setting in might trigger another mass extinction of life on Earth and it might. Long before…
Perspective
This puts things into perspective. Happy World Wildlife Day! * And for some more perspective, here’s George Carlin on “saving the planet”.
Range Wars, 21st Century-Style
It’s a classic theme of the ‘wild west’ – range wars where free-range cattle ranchers clashed with farmers whose fenced fields blocked their way. Today it’s a struggle between farmers…
Municipal Voters: Partisan Intervention is Coming Your Way
Did you mistakenly think that the Manning Centre’s attempt to bend the 2013 Calgary municipal election to more “conservative” was an aberration? You would be quite wrong. The author of…
The Economics Of Social Democracy – Social Europe Journal
The Economics Of Social Democracy – Social Europe Journal. By John Weeks In a recent article in the Social Europe Journal Shayn McCallum develops in some detail his interpretation of…
Trudeau ruling out working with NDP shows he just doesn’t get it
In the rest of the developed world, coalition governments are the norm. But instead of standing up for Canadian democracy, Justin Trudeau has decided to back Harper’s anti-democratic position that…
Some Days A Reactionary Just Can’t Catch A Break
At least if you are a reactionary in the Harper vein. First came the bad polling news showing increasing numbers of Canadians growing increasingly suspicious and weary of the relentless…
Italy’s industrial meltdown – what is to be done?
Originally posted on Revolting Europe: As the crisis at white goods maker Electrolux heralds another round of plant closures in the Eurozone’s second largest manufacturing nation, economist Guido Viale argues…
March 3: Leading observers rate Ukraine the crisis of the century….
…. so the Tand T gives us a story of twelve paragraphs of lies by foreign secretary John Baird – and it gets Baird’s name wrong in the headline! And…
WWCD? What Would China Do?
We’ve been getting this manicured image of Russia, isolated, standing alone against the world over its occupation of eastern Ukraine and, especially, Crimea. Then again, we do tend to see…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, March 3, 2014
Your news links for today: Competition Bureau taking more consumer-friendly stance – CBC Long-awaited digital strategy close to release, says industry minister – 680News Fast broadband now considered vital by…
IMF: Tax the Rich to Improve the Economy
The International Monetary Fund has just completed a study that compiled data across time and space to conclude that taxation isn’t harmful for economies. Indeed, taxing the rich is actually…
“Being sorry isn’t nearly enough…”
March is women’s history month (in the US). I’m talking about some of the women who’ve inspired me. Here’s an interesting thing that happens when we talk about such-and-such history…
Ukraine: what would you do?
Wikipedia is a joke, but here is a bit found thereon that I suspect has been accessed many times in the past few days: “When the Soviet Union collapsed in…
Mann Vs. Steyn: Steve McIntyre Weighs In
I’ve written fairly extensively on the topic of Michael Mann’s defamation case against Mark Steyn. Earlier this month, having fired, or been fired by, his lawyers, Mark Steyn appealed to…
Rob Ford Goes to Hollywood
Rob Ford is gone Hollywood and is also going to the Oscars, he is quite the actor and his performance deserves an Oscar. He has been a train-wreck as a…
Access to Information – some misunderstandings #nlpoli
A tale out of Ottawa reveals the extent to which access to information problems crop up in lots of places. CBC News asked for a copy of a memo from…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – David Atkins emphasizes the need for progressive parties and activists to discuss big ideas rather than settling for the path of least short-term…