“Top 7 Reasons You Can’t Trust Kinder Morgan”, Pipelines
A new report outlines the "Top 7 Reasons You Can't Trust Kinder Morgan" and the energy giant's proposed $5.4 billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. The post “Top 7 Reasons…
May 2016
FALL PREVENTION TECHNOLOGY – YES, IT EXISTS!
My Mom is 94 and prone to falling, so I am pleased to host this important guest post by a regular guest blogger here at the Caregivers' Living Room. Thank…
Republican Senators from Alaska Ask John Kerry to Help Protect Rivers, Salmon from B.C.’s Dangerous Mining Practices
High-level international action is needed to ensure that southeast Alaskan rivers and fisheries are protected from B.C. mines along the B.C./Alaska border, say Alaska’s federal representatives. Concerns about the environmental…
Musical interlude
The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law
CVRD’s Costly and Risky Legal Tactics Blew Up In Their Faces
The Cowichan Valley Regional District directors have just blown another wad of your cash attempting to double down on the original BC Supreme Court win that upheld the 4 yr…
How Deep is Canada in the War in Yemen?
Is Canada militarily engaged in the war in Yemen? If so, which war? There's the brutal Saudi war against Yemen's Houthi population that often targets Houthi villages and civilians, a…
May 13: Christopher Plummer, Oscar Peterson, and me.
This may be a little short because I got bogged down at the library, reading the autobiography of Christopher Plummer. It caught me because Plummer and I were (almost) classmates…
What if We Could Map All the Fossil Fuel Corporate Powers in Canada? These Researchers Are Trying.
We’ve all seen a chart like it: logos of corporations connected by thin lines to other logos, linking dozens of subsidiaries to spin-offs of even larger companies. But such diagrams…
Sophie Trudeau is no Betty Boop But Opposition Fast Becoming Other Cartoon Characters
In 2013, John Avarosis wrote a piece: Why do Republicans so hate Michelle Obama? In it he discusses the obsession that American conservatives have with the First Lady, or what…
Sophie Trudeau is no Betty Boop But Opposition Fast Becoming Other Cartoon Characters
In 2013, John Avarosis wrote a piece: Why do Republicans so hate Michelle Obama? In it he discusses the obsession that American conservatives have with the First Lady, or what…
Sophie Trudeau is no Betty Boop But Opposition Fast Becoming Other Cartoon Characters
In 2013, John Avarosis wrote a piece: Why do Republicans so hate Michelle Obama? In it he discusses the obsession that American conservatives have with the First Lady, or what…
Sophie Trudeau is no Betty Boop But Opposition Fast Becoming Other Cartoon Characters
In 2013, John Avarosis wrote a piece: Why do Republicans so hate Michelle Obama? In it he discusses the obsession that American conservatives have with the First Lady, or what…
Cruz Missiles
I think the world just dodged a bullet. Days after folding his bid to become the next Republican president of the United States, Terrible Ted Cruz is calling for war…
Fingering Our Saudi Allies for the 9/11 Attacks
It's the briefest of glimpses into what the American 9/11 Commission learned about the role played by the Saudis in the attacks but it may be enough to force the…
While Slick is Up In Fort Mac…
When our prime minister finishes his photo-op standing in the now cold ashes of Fort Mac maybe he should make his way to the air base at Cold Lake. From…
You don’t call, you don’t write, you don’t notice
Earlier today, www.warrenkinsella.com underwent a big change – and none of you noticed! Look up – look way, way up, as someone used to say. After fifteen years, the name…
Fort Mac’s Lingering Demise. End of the Road for Canada’s Petro-Pimps?
The fire is a separate matter. Fort Mac was going terminal well before the blaze began. The Tyee's Andrew Nikiforuk writes of the other fire, "a slow economic burn" that's…
I’m super old
I’m a loser, too. The guy beside me goes on to be mayor of Toronto. Me? Nobody-ville. Sigh.
On Journalism, Government and the cost of Digital Illiteracy
Earlier today the CBC published a piece by Alison Crawford about Canadian public servants editing wikipedia. It draws from a clever twitter bot — @gccaedits— that tracks edits to wikipedia from government…