Trudeau Can’t Have His Climate Plan and Build a Pipeline Too
So far Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a lot of the right moves when it comes to the important issue of climate change, but a new report this week…
2016
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Scott Sinclair, Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood and Stuart Trew study the contents of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. Sinclair and Trew also highlight why…
Musical interlude
Tame Impala - New Person, Same Old Mistakes
Wild Pacific Salmon Face Upstream Battle for Survival
Salmon have been swimming in Pacific Northwest waters for at least seven million years, as indicated by fossils of large saber-tooth salmon found in the area. During that time, they’ve…
Concerned residents seek answers as geese continue to deface Women’s Monument
Geese droppings have been defacing the monument in Vancouver’s Thornton Park since 2013By Cory Correia, CBC News Posted: Sep 22, 2016 7:08 PM PTThe continuing defacement of a Vancouver monument…
The Return of the Monstrous Chris and Kellie Show
The other day I wrote about how Kellie Leitch's "Anti-Canadian Values" campaign had brought back memories of the Chris and Kellie show.The barbaric Con production where Leitch and Chris Alexander…
Drowning In Our Excesses
The news is alarming, the statistics incredible, the implications dire. A convergence of factors, not the least of which is climate change, is causing rapid ice-sheet melting in Greenland. It…
Dancing a Tango With Medical Professionals
Today I am in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at a conference of the American Association of CP and Developmental Medicine. Yesterday I had the privilege of giving the Chambers Family Lifespan…
On The Edge Of Insanity
The "American Dream" used to be summed up in two words -- upward mobility. And, after World War II, almost everyone in the United States was upwardly mobile. Ben Fountain…
How far Bill Davis’ party has fallen.
We can admit it now but could not when he was Premier of Ontario, Bill Davis is a decent guy. As much as he likes to pose as the bastion…
Donald Trump’s New and Outrageous Scam
As a Canadian I have always found it hard to understand how Donald Trump has managed to fool so many Americans into believing that he is more than just a…
Reforming the way government works #nlpoli
Conservative and New Democrat goons are fapping themselves into a frenzy on Twitter over Bern Coffey's appointment as Clerk of the Executive Council. Qualifications don't matter, they would have it.…
And the Ig Nobel Goes To…
Hang your head, Canada. This year's Ig Nobel peace prize has been awarded to a team of philosophers from the University of Waterloo for their research paper entitled, "On the…
The Natives are Restless. Be Grateful.
First Nations groups have earned a lot of respect from other Canadians for their stalwart leadership in the fight against the fossil fuelers. Now Canadian tribes have signed a treaty…
Rachel Notley does remarkably well in face of unrelenting campaign of vilification … Sun newspapers? Not so much …
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley. Below: Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, the Mr. Congeniality of Confederation if you believe his press clippings; Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister. Notwithstanding a flagging economy and…
Why is the advertising industry still promoting violence against women?
Not only are advertisements that feature sex and violence bad for business, but more importantly they are causing damage by normalising violence against women. The post Why is the advertising…
Moving apology
Good on Butts and Telford. Better to not take money in the first place, of course. But this is a big mea culpa.
What You Need To Know About the Impending Pacific Northwest LNG Decision
The federal Liberals are under fire on a number of environment fronts, most notably over the Site C dam and the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline. And rightfully so. But…