The Anthropocene, Think of It This Way
Astrobiologist David Grinspoon describes the Anthropocene, Earth’s new geological epoch this way: “We’re at the controls of planet Earth, but we’re not in control.“ True enough. We, mankind, are in…
2016
The Tweet President
Photo from Public Domain If the emperor wants to communicate with the people, he issues an edict, elegantly worded, drawn up by aides. Trump in contrast tweets even as he…
The Propaganda System in Canada
A Propaganda System: How Government, Corporations, Media and Academia Sell War and Exploitation Yves Engler Fernwood, 2016 Propaganda is only as good as the processes through which it is concealed.…
23,000 Twitter followers can’t be all wrong
…well, actually, they can be. But I’ve got 23,000 of them, some of which I assume are actual, real people. When I reach 25,000, I will spontaneously combust, so keep…
The Con Debate, Kellie Leitch, and the Angry Pajamas
There were so many candidates at last night's Con leadership debate I couldn't fit them all into the picture.Or shake the image of a bunch of crows lined up on…
Italian Referendum Defeat is No Victory for the Right Wing
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Austrian Presidential Election Shows How United Front Politics Can Defeat the Far Right
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THIS Man Is Ahead By A Century
How about you? Are you ahead by a century, like Gord Downie is? Do you walk among the stars? I can only aspire to. I want to pivot to a…
Hope Finds a Way: Working with Kosovo’s Parliament
It seemed as if all the Balkan peoples, in trying to claw out their separate identities, would drag one another into the abyss. Yet, hope finds a way. We will…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday December 7, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Dec…
Riding a Bike in the USA is Getting Safer
Riding a bicycle is getting safer in American cities thanks to improvements in infrastructure. Usually the USA is associated with being the land of the car (and it still is…
Toward A New Clarity Of Language
With conventional media fighting an ever-growing juggernaut of fake news, news that is either outright lie or gross distortion, two national journals have joined a growing chorus in refusing to…
Turning The Hen House Over To The Fox
George Monbiot writes that McDonald’s has not been good for democracy: I do not mean that the presence of the burger chain itself is the cause of the decline of…
Hope Finds a Way: Working with Kosovo’s Parliament
It seemed as if all the Balkan peoples, in trying to claw out their separate identities, would drag one another into the abyss. Yet, hope finds a way. We will…
Megawreck #nlpoli
Over the past couple of weeks, the people of Newfoundland and Labrador have been shown more and more the lunacy that is Muskrat Falls. Nothing better exemplifies the crazy world…
In defence of Internet voting.
After more than five decades of working with computers, you would think the writer would know a bit about computers. The truth is that we have never programmed a line…
Faint hope #nlpoli
Nalcor won’t be able to install a boom upstream from the powerhouse construction. The result is that there will likely be damage to the dam construction, according to Nalcor boss…
Get Knotted Doc O’Keefe #nlpoli
No one should be surprised that St. John’s mayor Doc O’Keefe is huffing and puffing over comments by former mayor Andy Wells to the effect that O’Keefe’s crowd had been…
Ezra Levant and Canadian-Style Trumpism
In Edmonton this past weekend, Ezra Levant and his merry little basket of deplorables posing as journalists held a rally at the legislature opposing the carbon tax passed by the…
A ‘merger’ between the Alberta Party and the Progressive Conservatives? Unlikely
PHOTOS: A meeting of the Alberta Party’s “Big Listen,” circa 2010. Actual Alberta Party coffee parties may not have appeared exactly as illustrated. Below: Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark, former…