Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you from your dreams of petro-paradise but this is getting tough to ignore.Earth is on a roll. Adding "yet another month to a new…
Mulcair couldn't "get her done" but that doesn't mean the ghost of Jack Layton has been exorcised from the NDP tent. Could a bitter civil war be in the offing?Even…
American running shoe company, New Balance, has leveled a damning accusation at the Obama administration.New Balance still manufactures shoes in the States unlike the competition that has long since departed…
Monday, April 18, 2016 In February 2016, West Coast's Hannah Askew attended a Moose Management...
The Irving press hasn't said much about The Leap Manifesto by the NDP. We get a never ending series of commentaries by Liberal and Conservative politicians, none of them with…
Friday, April 15, 2016 According to pipeline supporters and cheerleaders, one of the primary ratio...
Political Capital 101. If you're going to defend something as odious as the Saudi death wagon deal, bullshit excuses only make everything worse.First, Trudeau, dismissed them as "jeeps." Given that…
The final item may present a clue to the current state of British Columbia’s energy market. It’s hard to believe we came to this only through the sheer stupidity of…
The final item may present a clue to the current state of British Columbia's energy market. It's hard to believe we came to this only through the sheer stupidity of…
The final item may present a clue to the current state of British Columbia's energy market. It's hard to believe we came to this only through the sheer stupidity of…
Friday, April 15, 2016 On April 4, 2016 the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs filed an amended Notice of ...
Rafe Mair calls out BC NDP Leader John Horgan for caving to a powerful union and apologizing for opposing Petronas' Lelu Island LNG project.The post Rafe: Gutless Horgan caves to…
Assorted content to end your week.- George Monbiot discusses how neoliberal ideology has managed to take over as the default assumption in global governance - despite its disastrous and readily…
There has been a lot written in recent years about neoliberalism. Ralston Saul, Mirowski, Galbraith and many others have weighed in and the more you read the clearer the picture…
Following up on yesterday's column, I'll expand somewhat on some of the decisions the NDP may want to consider as (or before) it elects new leaders. And since the recent…
If 100 people lived on Earth:
Germany ought to have a law about shaking down its head of state, in this case Angela Merkel.The shakedown comes in the form of Merkel's "go ahead" on the possible…
In two decisions that seem more like janitorial service the Supreme Court of Canada has struck down two of Shifty Steve Harper's "tough on crime" laws.One was a mandatory-minimum sentence…
It's easy to get distracted by tales of invisible this and all-seeing that, but if you look at real-life air combat today it's the old reliable warplanes that are getting…
There is, I think, a prevailing mistake in the way that many are looking at the downfall of Thomas Mulcair. People see him as a failed candidate, a guy who…
