Even Climate Change Has a Silver Lining
For years I've written that climate change would be the death knell of globalism. It's really simple. The global economy depends on a fabric of nations operating collectively. That requires…
June 2016
Rethinking Seafood
Two years ago there was some sort of contamination problem with Asian seafood. I think it was something viral. In any case the seafood appetites of wealthy Asians were not…
Eleven Days to Go and "Leave" Up by Ten Points
A month ago it looked like most Brits were for staying in the European Union. It was a slim but seemingly stable lead.Now, with less than 2 weeks to go,…
No, That’s Just a Racist Saying He’s Not a Racist.
The Wall Street Journal headline was intriguing: Donald Trump Rebuts Allegations of Racism.Read on, I thought. This was going to be a genuinely Herculean feat given how often the Great…
Finishing up at Friends’ Central
Hello all, After two years at Friends’ Central I’m making the move back to higher ed by accepting a job at a university. My last day at Friends’ Central was…
The Climate, It’s Always Been Changing
Of course it has. Which is why NASA prepared this wonderful graph of just how the atmospheric CO2 has changed over the past 400,000 years.Res ipsa loquitur - the thing…
O, Can We Not Just Do This?
ANALYSIS Changing O Canada: Is God next?: Terry Milewski Christians warn that changing O Canada is a slippery slope to removing God and the Holy Cross By Terry Milewski, CBC…
Your Ward News: A Letter The G&M Didn’t Print
They got an even shorter version, but so stubbornly persist in their wrongness and hatred of elegant prose that they wouldn’t even print that one. Anyway, I didn’t want all…
Your Ward News: A Letter The G&M Didn’t Print
They got an even shorter version, but so stubbornly persist in their wrongness and hatred of elegant prose that they wouldn't even print that one. Anyway, I didn't want all…
Your Ward News: A Letter The G&M Didn’t Print
They got an even shorter version, but so stubbornly persist in their wrongness and hatred of elegant prose that they wouldn't even print that one. Anyway, I didn't want all…
John Horgan says NDP will target foreign owners in fight for housing affordability
It could be billed as Greed versus Need. NDP’s John Horgan has flung down the gauntlet in what could become the hot election issue in the Greater Vancouver area as…
O, Can We Not Just Do This?
ANALYSIS Changing O Canada: Is God next?: Terry Milewski Christians warn that changing O Canada is a slippery slope to removing God and the Holy Cross By Terry Milewski, CBC…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Yvan Guillemette discusses the need for public-sector investment in economic development to make up for the massive amounts of private capital sitting idle. And…
Prophets of GOP Rage
From a Rage Against The Machine video. In 1999. Wow. Impressed.
Lockheed Martin: A Bad Business Partner
Lockheed Martin has threatened to pull jobs if we don't proceed with the F-35 contract. I suggest we deal with bad business partners by pulling all of our business with…
He wanted an independent Senate; he got it.
We told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that this independent Senate of his would bite him on the ass. And it happened sooner than anyone expected. But to make the point…
Different Folks, Different Rules
The Isle of Man tax avoidance scheme is nothing new. Linda McQuaig reminds her readers that Brian Mulroney cut the same kind of deal with the CRA:The riveting image of…
Howe, the Wings, Detroit
Gordie Howe was, if anything, the beating heart of the Detroit Red Wings. He was a Red Wing two years before I was born. I grew up thinking of Howe…
Harper’s Legacy: Now Lockheed Martin is Threatening to Blackmail Us
For what sometimes seems like forever, the F-35 fighter jet has been hovering over Canada like some kind of giant bat.And even though it has been a comedy of errors,…