According to the unintendedly ironic and transitory layout on CBC Calgary’s news page yesterday afternoon, it looked as if former Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith is up Schitt$ Creek. Actually,…
A new study published today in the journal Nature finds the vast majority – 99 per cent – of Canada’s oilsands are “unburnable” if the world is to avoid a…
MOLLY COMES BACK It's been almost a year now that I've been away from blogging, and I'm sure it will take some 'flexibility exercises' to get back in form. Here,…
MOLLY COMES BACK It’s been almost a year now that I’ve been away from blogging, and I’m sure it will take some ‘flexibility exercises’ to get back in form. Here,…
MOLLY COMES BACKIt's been almost a year now that I've been away from blogging, and I'm sure it will take some 'flexibility exercises' to get back in form. Here, however,…
MOLLY COMES BACK It’s been almost a year now that I’ve been away from blogging, and I’m sure it will take some ‘flexibility exercises’ to get back in form. Here,…
I had never heard of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo prior to the assault on it’s staff. From what I have come to understand it produces cartoons that normally…
From Barrett Brown, a wrongfully jailed journalist… in the USA. He’s imagining speaking to the founding fathers about the country’s progress: Benjamin Franklin: “It was among my fondest dreams that…
Mankind is coming to a decision point. We can either walk away from high-carbon fossil fuels, leave the stuff in the ground, and keep our fingers crossed that somehow we’ll…
Residents of La Habra Heights in Los Angeles County, California want their city to become the latest to ban fracking and other high intensity oil extraction methods, and have placed…
What is it about the International Criminal Court that has so inflamed Israel and the United States? It’s a court of law and a pretty good one at that. It’s…
It was a monstrous act of violence, that has shocked decent people all over the world. The work of crazed fanatics, bullies and cowards.Gunmen have shot dead 12 people at…
This is a guest post by Climate Nexus. Syndicated columnist George Will’s latest piece, “Climate change’s instructive past” is more carefully written than previous columns (see Media Matters Misinformer of…
The view from the cafeteria looks out over Calgary’s wide valley basin. I watched the sun rise on one side this morning and now watch the sun begin to set…
Yesterday, the government announced a joint program with the Munk School of Global Affairs to help Internet users in authoritarian countries circumvent Internet censorship. The $9 million initiative is designed…
1250264Ontario Inc. v. Pet Valu Canada Inc., 2015 ONCA 57: Here, the delay is short, an explanation has been provided for the delay, and there is no prejudice to Pet…
Newspeak is the fictional language in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, written by George Orwell. It is a controlled language created by the totalitarian state as a tool to limit freedom…
If there’s something synonymous with Alaska surely it has to be snow. Well that used to be the case but, in case you haven’t heard, things are changing pretty rapidly…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been sued over toxic chemicals released into the air, water and land by the oil and gas industry, a coalition of nine environmental and…
